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Wilhelm Sasnal — Sportsmen Parade (After Rodchenko)
Wilhelm Sasnal

Sportsmen Parade (After Rodchenko)

A large-scale oil painting that reimagines Alexander Rodchenko's iconic Soviet-era photograph of a mass athletic parade, rendered in Sasnal's characteristically reduced and flattened visual language. The figures merge into a rhythmic, almost abstract procession of muted tones, stripping the original image of its propagandistic grandeur while preserving its hypnotic compositional force. Sasnal's translation from photograph to paint introduces a quiet ambiguity, transforming a symbol of collective ideological spectacle into something more contemplative and uncertain.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 16, 2014

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Wilhelm Sasnal, Sportsmen Parade (After Rodchenko)

A large-scale oil painting that reimagines Alexander Rodchenko's iconic Soviet-era photograph of a mass athletic parade, rendered in Sasnal's characteristically reduced and flattened visual language. The figures merge into a rhythmic, almost abstract procession of muted tones, stripping the original image of its propagandistic grandeur while preserving its hypnotic compositional force. Sasnal's translation from photograph to paint introduces a quiet ambiguity, transforming a symbol of collective ideological spectacle into something more contemplative and uncertain.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Soviet Iconography, Historical Reference, Constructivism, Figurative Art, Contemporary Painting, Polish Art, Parade Scene, Oil on Canvas

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