A bouquet of flowers

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia).

This painting demonstrates that scientific work and analytical studies did not overshadow the living person, the romantic dreamer in A. Bogomazov, who believed in the unlimited possibilities of the beauty of creation. He wrote to his wife, “Beauty cannot be perceived solely by the mind, with no feeling”. In the bouquet combining the techniques of expressionism (colour and the painting itself) and cubism (the background of the canvas), there are not only flowers but also space. It is the logic of his beauty. In the same letter, he reflected: the stars are nice, because they appear in the sky, they cannot be reached. You can pick a flower, but it is no less beautiful.