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>>14307815

>>11767835
Russian architecture both horrifies and entrances me

The Russian-Ukrainian style of white church, with its long thin windows, almost oblique secretive appearance, is based though. Not the highly ornamented ones, but the more simple looking ones. They have a deep unity of expressive feeling, they are like individual stalks of a plant rising into bulbs, (but not all the stalks, some are just bundled together and end in small domes) but united in a concrete setting that gives them immense weight and situates them on the ground. The multiple crosses is also significant- on a Gothic cathedral the crosses are almost indistinguishable from the spires and the entire things blends into one image that is dominated by its highest points, and has a deeply powerful sense of rising upwards, and an ethereal airlike quality. The russian churches give a horizontal feeling of united essences, which are unequal, at different levels, but united in some way, it is more solid and firm than a gothic cathedral, yet less imposing. The Russian church is as yet not really understandable for me though, it is still vague, i cannot put together all the bits of it, and it seems almost that they have not even developed yet the true form that they are going towards with it.

pic related is what i am talking about