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| | Alexander Zinoviev |
 | | Zinoviev's tonalities - they are often muted, sombre, "cold", chthonic - express another world, a distorted, occasionally ironical, at times profoundly bewitching, at times obsessively disturbing world. |
 | | Add to that a baroque, albeit often manneristic emphasis created by the juxtaposition of contrasted colours of a bitter-sweet quality, and the physical distortions of humans and animals, especially horses, whose bodies are given the clean, plastic elongations to which Picasso was partial (Guernica). |
 | | Zinoviev fantasizes greatly even in the very lifelike and vibrant portraits of his friends Ros-tropovitch and Askenazy. |
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