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Allegories and Modern Mythology
Dina Bova

Allegories and Modern Mythology

A glance at the philosophical truths of the 21st century concerning who we are and what our lives mean. In various times, various philosophical concepts were expressed by artists in an allegorical form. The allegories that I created express modern philosophical concepts that are important to us today.

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Feb 28, 2014
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Feb 09, 2022
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"Allegory of a Dream: © Dina Bova. Will our dreams come true? This is almost a true story about fulfilled and unfulfilled dreams with an open end..
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"Time to Lose & Time to Seek" © Dina Bova. Inspired by the book of from Bible. "A time to seek and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away"
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"Paradise Lost" © Dina Bova. Inspired by Bible stories from Genesis and Ecclesiastes books. "A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together"
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"Allegory of Doubts" © Dina Bova. Standing before multiple choice can be tough. We hesitate, don't know what to choose, where to go. We want to do something, and yet hold ourselves in hesitation...
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"Imaginarium" © Dina Bova. Imaginarium is a world of imagination and subconscious where our dreams come true...
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"Imagination Tricks" © Dina Bova. Are these the tricks of the fallen angel? Or maybe just waiting for the rain? Or it’s time to fly? ... Let your imagination answer…
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"Lost" © Dina Bova. They stood quietly in the middle of nowhere. They were well-dressed in perfectly clean and well-ironed clothes. There was a feeling that they were lost in space and time, facing the unknown…
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"Allegory of Cognition" © Dina Bova. "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart"...(from "Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
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"Babylon - Made In Italy" © Dina Bova. Inspired by the story of Babylon Tower, Pieter Bruegel's painting and my trip to the beautiful Cinque-Terre in Italy.
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"At Home Among Strangers" © Dina Bova. An allegorical portrait depicting not only a single person, but the whole layer of Russian intellectuals. A story of people, who are very far from a material world, who live in their own world and it doesn’t matter what is happening around. Perhaps because they are just tired of caring and fighting, or came to understanding that whatever they do won’t matter.
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"Allegory of Hope" © Dina Bova. Yesterday is a dream, Tomorrow is a vision – yet everyday lived well makes every yesterday a dream of joy and tomorrow into a vision of hope...
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"Memory of the Future" © Dina Bova. A biblical motive of "Madonna with the child" in a modern context. She is crying for a faceless humanity that history teaches nothing. There is a hint to that in the paradoxical title. Her children are creepy, blind, emotionally distorted, wounded,hating, screaming... but still her children that she gives compassion and ready to take their pain on her.
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"Time to Gather" © Dina Bova. What fruits will we harvest? Improvisation on a theme from the Ecclesiastes book
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"The Watch| © Dina Bova. Feeling alone in hostile environment with an angry crowd flying around you. Feeling defenseless. Wishing there were others with you on the watch, perhaps even more of you. But you are still alone…
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"Fealings & Reason" © Dina Bova. What is more important – feelings or reason? Everyone has his own answer to this question.
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"Quo Vadis" © Dina Bova. Where do we come from? Where are we going? What is hidden in a foggy future that attracts our curiosity? We have different toys on different stages of life...
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"Light & Shadow" © Dina Bova. Inspired by the Bulgakov's novel "Master & Margarita"
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