Musicians

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The State Museum of Fine Arts. A. Pushkina, Moscow (Russia).

Despite the fact that Varvara Stepanova, following Rodchenko, became a radical utilitarian practitioner, she looks like a rather contemplative master in many of her paintings. Not working from nature, the artist re-created a kind of half-recognizable, half-illusory world where impersonal heroes made of lines, planes and circles exist and interact. Like in other paintings by Stepanova, here is a kind of fun and lighthearted humour. This special feature of Stepanova’s style differs her paintings from analytic and sometimes cold art of other constructivists.