Factory Bombing

Mediums: oil, рlywood.
Location: private collection.

The picture of the bombing, demonstrating the power and destructive power of military vehicles, is a spectacle at the same time beautiful and terrible. In the picture, the aircraft is not just a symbol of modernity and speed, rushing rapidly through the blue skies; it is a formidable machine that brings destruction and death. Despite the fact that the artist created this painting almost a year before the beginning of World War II, it realistically reflects the atmosphere of an attack on the city, the smoke of a fire covering the sky, and the fearful grandeur of an airplane that hangs over a burning city like a terrible mechanical bird. The work is one of several on a military theme, and, of course, one of the most realistic and impressive paintings.