Glow

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection, Moscow (Russia).

The painting is typical of “silent art” – it has much more Cezanne than such teachers of Udaltsova as Malevich and Tatlin. The sky, which looked like a restless rainbow spectrum, was mixed with a reared “earthly firmament” painted with all shades of green. At the same time, the sky here is clearly “coming closer”, occupying most of the space of the small picture. Art experts call the grey “fence” (brushstrokes along the entire lower edge of the canvas) “ancient”, that is, more expressive than the elaborate painting characteristic of the artist before he met A. Drevin. In all the later paintings, there are traces of a reverent recreation of the world after the author subjected it to avant-garde decomposition into segments.