from the chiasmus archive: MOODBOARD: "THE DEMON SEATED" MIKHAIL VRUBEL (D1910). Posted: December 24th 2022

 

"Vrubel’s Demon is a symbol of our times, neither night nor day, neither dark nor light... Vrubel came to us as a messenger to tell us that the violet night is sprinkled with the gold of a clear evening. He left us his Demons to exorcise the violet evil and the night. What Vrubel and those like him reveal to mankind once a century, make me tremble with awe.”  

Alexander Blok

 “A spirit uniting in itself masculine and feminine qualities…a spirit, not so much evil as suffering and sorrowing, but in all that a powerful spirit…a majestic spirit” 

Mikhail Vrubel