The White Eagle, from War: Mystical Images of War
1914
Natalia Goncharova Russian, 1881-1962
Russia
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.
Lithograph on cream wove paper