Medium - Canvas , Subject - Still Life , Style - Expressionism , Artwork Type - Oil Painting
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Description
I enjoy painting simple still lifes and working in a minimalist style. I call it Minimalism in Realism. At first glance, the painting shows a simple household object, an old metal meat grinder on a sheet of paper. The grinder, once a tool of domestic routine, becomes for our era a symbol of dehumanization, a cold, mechanical device that swallows and transforms the living into a uniform, indistinguishable mass. In the context of war, it evokes the terrifying image of people degraded to "cannon fodder", drawn
