The White Eagle, from War: Mystical Images of War
- Medium
- Lithograph on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.6 × 24.9 cm (12 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printingwarprintprints and drawinglithographypaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
Folk imagery and the language of icons informed Goncharova’s Neo-primitivist style. In this work, the two-headed white eagle of Russia dominates the crowned black Prussian eagle with one beak and clasps a crescent moon in the other, referencing Turkey or the Ottoman Empire. Emphatic lines animate the composition, a modernist treatment of space and action akin to concurrent explorations in Cubism and Futurism.
