Repairing Saws

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The National Museum of Art, Kiev (Ukraine).

In a cycle devoted to saw cutters, Bogomazov covered the traditional for Ukrainian painting theme of labour on a monumental stage and by his new developments in colours. The compositional and plastic methods and decoratively presented colour create a feeling of enjoyable labour. The artist subordinated the plan to a single rhythm: the steel saws with rainbow colours, the sawn logs and new huts shining in the sun. The innovative painting with a palette (the master put his idea of ​​“spectralism” into practice) does not distract the viewer neither from the strong hands of workers with thick fingers depicted with realistic accuracy nor from their focused faces.