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    The document discusses three paintings by Mikhail Vrubel that depict demons: Demon Seated from 1890, Flying Demon from around 1900, and Demon Downcast, which Vrubel worked on refining directly at an exhibition. The demons in Vrubel's works represent the inner struggle and strength of the human spirit rather than being purely evil.

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    The document discusses three paintings by Mikhail Vrubel that depict demons: Demon Seated from 1890, Flying Demon from around 1900, and Demon Downcast, which Vrubel worked on refining directly at an exhibition. The demons in Vrubel's works represent the inner struggle and strength of the human spirit rather than being purely evil.

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    The document discusses three paintings by Mikhail Vrubel that depict demons: Demon Seated from 1890, Flying Demon from around 1900, and Demon Downcast, which Vrubel worked on refining directly at an exhibition. The demons in Vrubel's works represent the inner struggle and strength of the human spirit rather than being purely evil.

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    (2) The image of a demon is often found in the works of Mikhail Vrubel.

    Michael Vrubel painted demons everywhere: on letters, on newspapers or on pieces of


    paper... They were pencil drawings, sketches, or paintings. No one knows how many
    demons have been drawn, because most often they were destroyed by the artist. The
    demonic theme haunted the artist almost all his creative life.
    And I want to tell you about three such paintings:
     Demon Seated
     Flying Demon
     Demon Downcast
    (3) The Demon Seated
    Oddly enough, it was during the work on the painting of Kiev churches that the artist
    came to the topic that did not leave him for the rest of his life. He found his "Demon".
    And immediately after the restoration, he created a sketch of the Demon Seated. The
    finished painting appeared in 1890.
    The painting is made in the individual style of Vrubel with crystalline effect, which
    makes his paintings more like stained glass.
    The demon of Vrubel is not evil, it is a representation of the strength of the human
    spirit, the inner struggle, doubt.
    (4) Flying demon
    Vrubel starts drawing the next demon in 10 years. There isn’t a single sketch for this
    picture. Some believe the painting itself is a sketch for the next demon. Here the artist
    experimented over the anatomy, so in the picture you can only see the chest, stomach,
    and black coat, we cannot understand where the hands and wings.
    (5) Demon Downcast
    Vrubel spent a lot of time on this painting, but even after it was presented at the
    exhibition, the artist worked on its refinement. The fact is that Vrubel mixed bronze
    powders with paint that glowed beautifully in his workshop, but in the hall, there was
    another lighting, because of which the colors faded. Then Vrubel began to remake the
    work directly at the exhibition. The demon changed his expression all this time. Visitors
    said that the Demon's expression changed literally every day. One day it was evil, the
    next it was beautiful, then it was mysterious.
    "Demon Downcast" also became Vrubel’s last picture before his hospitalization to a
    private psychiatric hospital, where he became a believer and he stopped liking his
    demons, after a while he became blind.
    I like these paintings with their unusual, especially for that period, and their beauty.
    And I’m also fascinated by the amount of detail that’s involved, that makes it possible to
    look at pictures for hours.

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