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PORTRAIT OF OLGA

Sister Olga’s watercolor portrait has two portraits. On one side of the face, there are carefree young years and mature years. If you divide the mirror vertically and point it to different sides, you can observe this.

The faces of people are not symmetrically aligned. The Hungarian painter Tiwarar Kostik (Chontwari) used this fact in an innovative way in 1902’s ‘Old Fisherman’. If you divide the mirror vertically in half and point it to different sides of the face, one side of the mirror will show the image of God while the other side will show the image of the Devil. In his other work, which could be called ‘Reading the Scriptures’, the right and left sides of the readers read different passages. In the work, which could be called “Portrait of an old man with two sticks”, various images are also hidden. Contemporaries did not appreciate the artist, during his life no work was acquired.