Masterpieces – The History of a Period

The Three Martyrs (130 x 89 cm – 1976)

On the altar of the fatherland, altar of sacrifice, its ochre color that of its soil, three holy fathers pray with their arms raised to heaven, in union with the other world, while on either side are the butchers with all kinds of ancient weapons in their hands, daggers, sickles, knives, pikes and so on, somewhat in the style of Ben Laden wearing expressions of the most barbarous, savage and criminal kind. In the background on the right there is a monastery that has been ransacked, its bell tower still standing. In the middle, far away, is a village. In the sky above three souls soar towards their Creator against whirling white and blue. With the gray and black colors of the crowd, the whole composition turns around the central sacrifice.