"Titanic and Britannic in Southampton Docks. The Future that Never Happened."
"A brand new artwork by Anton Logvinenko and Alexander Filin. Inspired by David E. Olivera.
At the moment my friend Alexandr Filin is unable to post on Facebook from Russia so I'm here to share this artwork on his behalf, which I am happy to do.
The late Антон Логвиненко started this artwork back in 2021 not long before the Ukrainian-Russian war started. The original idea of the artwork came from Anton's longtime friend, a talented and well-known marine artist David Olivera who came up with an idea of an original angle and composition of the picture and created first drafts.
Using this drafts as an inspiration, Anton started creating a reality where Titanic and Britannic happily coexisted as running mates.
After his death Alex was asked if he could finish this digital painting. Anton was a friend of ours, and he also inspired many artists, including Alex, so he gladly accepted this proposition. With a team of researchers from the Britannic research community based in Russia Евгений Васильев, Belarus Artyom Avdeev and others Alex meticulously worked on this digital painting, researching every inch of the ships, docks, every pier and Southampton streets and buildings.
It's really early in the morning in the picture. Titanic is docked at the pier 44 in the same spot she left Southampton on the 10th April 1912. She is in her original configuration without any refits or modifications.
Britannic is also there. She is in her civil livery and looks the way she had been initially envisioned by the WSL. Giant gantry davits are replaced with standard Welin davits, and there're many differences comparing to Titanic including new enclosed windows on the A deck, transformed aft well and poop decks, children's playroom and much more.
According to Alex, this is his most complex anu difficult artwork up to date both in technical and emotional aspects. It is very detailed, the original digital painting is in 8K. The idea was not to change the original locations of objects added by Anton but many of them were just drafts and had to be modified significantly in order to add new details and save the correct perspective. Also Alex spent a significant amount of time looking for references and, as he told me, even felt that he would be able soon to walk the Southampton streets in his dreams.
Alex, Atyom and a team of involved researchers are also happy to give this artwork to Anton's family in memory of their wonderful son. His father Vitaly Logvynenko Виталий Логвиненко sent a very cordial message: 'We cherish every memory about our little Anton and this finished artwork, his last one, will be a good memory of him too!'
We agreed with Anton's family that this work can be publicly shared with everyone and that it will be a touching tribute to the late Anton who was a great man and an amazing artist."
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