Painting titled "String art reproduc…" by Andrey Saharov, Original Artwork, Thread

String art reproduction of orthodox icon painting (2019) Painting by Andrey Saharov

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Limited Edition (#2/20) Painting, Thread / String Art on MDF Board

Artworks classification

Limited Edition

The edition run is over. The number of works produced has been determined and included in the listing.
Dimensions Height 21.7in, Width 21.7in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Surrealism

This is a string art reproduction of one of the classic orthodox icon-painting specimens. The work depicts Saint Ivan, patron of the name and patron saint before God. The first copy of this work was custom made, but I publish it as a limited edition of 20 with the customer’s permission.

The original string art technique that created this stunning piece involves wrapping several kilometers of a continuous mono-thread around an evenly spaced circle of 200 aluminum pins. The thread cross, re-cross, and crisscross a circular area above the flat wooden board. The image within the circle is achieved by the painstaking and complex choice of thousands of connections between the pins. After the first 30 connections that make up the image, the number of possible knitting variants exceeds the number of atoms in the Universe! So it’s simply impossible to reproduce this artwork by guesswork or to untangle it with your mind...

Just think, by what kind of magic does the same string that produces only random noise around the image suddenly condense and accurately repeats the complex shape? That's quite amazing... The string meticulously draws the figure in the air, and from this unifying beginning, the entire piece is interconnected... even the smallest element is an inseparable part of the whole, which brings up deep symbolic meaning to the artwork and makes it a fascinating and insanely intriguing gift.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Thread

Technique consisting in creating a work based on textile threads and which can be decorated by adding color or material.

String Art

Technique consisting of an arrangement of threads generally stretched by nails to create geometric shapes or representations.

Surrealism

Founded in 1923 by the writer André Breton, it will unite many artists like Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Max Ernst, René Magritte (1898-1967), Victor Brauner (1903-1966). Influenced by psychoanalysis, they see psychic life as a new field for renewing the arts. They will develop new ways to create and use new materials.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Andrey Saharov

Russia

I'm an artist and mathematician from Moscow - the city with one of the world's most prominent math schools. I've always been fascinated by fractals and other patterns occurring in dynamical systems. That turned[...]