Ivan Korshunov

Apple of Knowledge

Surrogates series

Russia

2012

Oil on canvas, gilding

100x100 cm

Artist about this artwork The painting depicts a baby rattle, well-known to all children born and raised in the USSR. The rattle portrays an apple and it grew on an apple tree. It symbolizes the apple of knowledge, as through various toys and rattles, through different tactile sensations, we begin to explore this world and make our first discoveries in it.