Tolstoy Shorts
Description: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909.
Description: All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. This raw, deeply expressive mixed-media collage pays tribute to Leo Tolstoy — one of the greatest novelists who ever lived and a moral force so powerful that tsars feared him and governments censored him. His weathered, intense portrait emerges from a mosaic of torn newspaper fragments and painterly brushstrokes in warm biscuit, charcoal black, and ash grey, as if the very words he wrote have become the flesh of his face. And cutting through it all — two impossibly blue eyes that seem to look straight through you, just as Tolstoy's prose always did. The hand-lettered "Tolstoy" signature to the right feels less like a label and more like an autog
