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Adam and Eve
Artist: Leonid Lamm
Date:
1987
Medium: Oil and gold leaf on canvas
Dimensions: Two panels each 193 x 142 cm
Event: Soviet Repression
Motif:
Violence
In 1973, while applying for a visa to emigrate to Israel, Lamm was arrested and sentenced to three years of imprisonment, two in Moscow's Butyrka Prison and one in a labor camp. He emigrated to the United States in 1982. In this painting, he depicts the first tasters of forbidden fruit, creating an allegory for the Communist Garden of Eden in which any taste of freedom was a punishable sin.
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