Plowman

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Chaim Gross Museum, New York (the USA).

One of the artist’s earliest paintings on the subject of labour and, at the same time, on cubist and futuristic research. The movement is indicated by the presence of several images of the face echoing each other, as well as a distortion of reality in the setting of the legs and scale of the employee’s hands. One of them, indicating the direction of movement, is simply huge – almost half a horse. The surrounding space is depicted schematically and emotionally: it is hot red in colour with yellow and orange “tan marks” and contrasts with the blue dress of the ploughman and the black horse.