“Art is a time-machine that irrevocably preserves images of beautiful women. It makes them young and beautiful forever by the meanmeans of artists’ hands and due to the will of their husbands and admirers.
We know Adel due to Klimt, Cecilia Gallerani due to Leonardo da Vinci, Camille Claudel due to Auguste Rodin, Olga Khokhlova due to Picasso. We don’t know who was the inspiration for Venus de Milo and Girl with a Pearl Earring, but their eternal beauty is true magic, an aether that will never vanish.”
Vasily Klyukin
Vasily Klyukin’s new project, WoPantheon, is dedicated to the traditional (phenomenon) worship of women’s beauty. The first image of a woman appears in prehistoric art as a symbol of fertility and celebrates the miracle of birth. However, the generalized idea of a woman that men in faith used over centuries denied personality. Thus, over time, the image of a woman-goddess lost its identity and became recognized only through a man-god.