East and West

Mediums: oil, tempera, gouache on paper.
Location: The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia).

While painters traditionally work with the vector from the general to the particular, that is, they grasp the essence of the object and reproduce it, Filonov tended to do the opposite and move from small to general. The painting on the eternal themes of the eastern and western mentality contains a direct symbolic message on the priority of universal values ​​- people are in the same boat and numerous fish approach them, regardless of nationality.