Blue and Green Forest

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

The canvas meets the canons of the “Manifesto of Rayonism’’, which the artist helped Larionov to develop. The image of not objects but the colour rays reflected from them allows us to classify this style as a kind of abstraction, as demonstrated in the picture “Blue-green forest”. Real trees and grasses, and possibly even sky and water, have no specifics but are a point of repulsion for the imagination of the artist (and also the viewer), who sees how the rays that fall on them act. Although this work is a combination of multidirectional beams of oblique lines of various lengths and thicknesses, it gives an idea of ​​the coolness and even dampness of a dense forest.