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Victor Molev (Canada) "To Kill the Dragon in Itself" 2018 41x51 cm Oil on canvas.
Reasoning on the topic of the zodiac signs, which does not coincide with the astrological canons.
Anton Chekhov wrote that a man is obliged to "squeeze a slave out of himself drop by drop." According to the artist, he must first "Kill the dragon in himself", as the knight Lancelot said in the play "Dragon" by Eugene Schwartz. The artist visualized this process. The anthropomorphic creature depicted on the canvas in the process of humanization. Much to the regret of the author, not everyone is able to bring this process to an end. Or even get started...

Victor Molev Victor Molev is a Canadian artist of Russian descent, working in the styles of Decorative Realism, Fantasy, Symbolism and Surrealism. Molev was born in the year 1955 in Gorky (present day Nizhny Novgorod), Russia. From an early age, he has shown interest in the visual arts and dedicated his time to creativity. As the artist himself jokes, his love for art derived from the fact that his grandmother was kissed by Marc Chagall in her childhood. She was his younger sister’s classmate, and often visited the Chagall household. In paintings from his childhood and early youth, Molev showed an inclination towards unconventional compositions that were free of the Soviet canons of “Socialist Realism”. In the mid-1970s, as an...