Death images based on the collection "Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire

Student: Shteynikova Ksenia

Educational Programme: Design (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The theme of the final qualifying work "Images of death based on the collection" Flowers of Evil "by Charles Baudelaire". The task was set to reveal the main theme of death through human sins and weaknesses, the search for the ideal, the beautiful and the ugly, expressed in symbols, metaphors and allegories. The diploma is executed in the linoleum engraving technique and presented in the form of Livre d'Artiste. Carrying out work on visual research, theoretical and visual materials were studied, an analysis of works of art on the theme of death, its symbols and attributes was carried out. The collected material served as inspiration and fundamentally influenced the topic of the final qualifying work.

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