/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

No painting has made a impression on me like Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan, by Illya Repin. The emotion in Ivan's eyes is so strong its almost disturbing, the combination of grief, shock, regret and horror over having done the unthinkable, killing his own son. All the former resentment gone, now he is desperately putting pressure on the wound, clinging to his son as if it will keep him alive, and the hand of Ivan Jr on his fathers arm, a sad, faraway look in his eyes as fades away from conciousness