Composition with a male figure

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Yaroslavl Art Museum (Yaroslavl, Russia).

Working under the guidance of P.N. Filonov, the artist applied the laws of analytical art in his painting. Starting from the basic form, Kondratyev gradually filled it with internal content, comprehensively exploring nature. The composition with a male figure is made in a bluish-gray palette characteristic of that period, with several colour accents on the hands, face and some parts of the figure. The artist’s experiments with the shape of objects are visible in this work. Outwardly, they are somewhat similar to paintings of cubists, but instead of the analysis and synthesis used by representatives of this art movement, the artist worked “from the point”, gradually expanding the painting space on the canvas.