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Chapter VI
Demonstration 6 (above)
30. Above left: 16th century (1593) Russian icon of St Nicholas the Warrior,
29 x 22 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
31. Above right: Mark Rothko (Black on Deep Purple), 1964, mixed media on canvas, 266.7 x 203.2 cm (105 x 80), Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Meryland.
Demonstration 7 (below)
32. Below left: 16th century Russian icon of St Nicholas the Warrior from which we have excluded
the figure of St Nicholas and the corner-depiction of the Virgin with Child.
33. Below right: Mark Rothko’s work (Black on Deep Purple), 1964,
where we have intervened by adding the figural forms from the adjacent Russian icon.
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