Chornobyl Tragedy
, 1998
100 x 300 cm (h x w)
Oil on canvas
Yuri Nikitin is a master of neo-baroque symbolism. He creates a monochrome painting of an unspeakable pain of people affected by the consequences of the accident. Each face in the picture expresses feelings: sadness, grief, despair. At the bottom of the picture is an open book, the sheets of which are scattered: on one of the sheets: "alpha", and on the other - "omega", which are the God's symbols of the "beginning" and the "end" of everything.
Painting from the collection of National Chornobyl Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine