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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, (1875-1911, Lithuania): Funeral Symphony (IV), (1903)

The non-narrated documentary film 'Burial', (2022), consists largely of visuals of the decommissioning of a nuclear power station in Lithuania accompanied by an ominous, wavering soundscape. It doesn't sound that promising but the effect is extraordinary. 

Unexpected also was the inclusion of a 1903 series of paintings, the 'Funeral Symphony', by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, an artist I'd never heard of, who died at 35 of pneumonia.  I'm still attempting to process something of their deep, wonderful mysteriousness.


Pastel on Paper.