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Imperial Fire Bird

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Painted as a gift for Tair Salakhov's 80th birthday. Mr. Salakhov is Vice President of the Russian Academy of Arts. As his birthday celebrations were held in Azerbaijan, I didn't get to give this in person. However I was told its presentation made it onto Azerbaijani television. I have yet to find footage of the affair, but I'm working on it.

The idea behind this image turned out to be more complicated than I had first intended. Initially I designed the painting to be reminiscent of Russia's lacquer boxes that (by and large) depict brightly coloured images against black backgrounds. To put a twist on the traditional image of the Imperial Eagle, I used the fire bird motif. After I finished painting, I discovered that Azerbaijan is known as the land of fire, which worked out nicely. And since the country is a former part of Soviet Russia, having the Eagle symbolized in fire basically equated to Russia annexing Azerbaijan. Needless to day, Mr. Salakhov was greatly pleased by this.

8x10, acrylic on canvas board
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Bjarru's avatar
Awesome. They re so lively and alive