Stack. Lahta

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

About the painting:

In Lakhta, a historical region of Saint Petersburg, Mikhail worked several times and always with inspiration. The picturesque nature of a small village on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, previously immortalized by Shishkin, looks quite different when depicted by innovator Matyushin. Sweeping yellow, blue, orange and blue-green diagonal strokes formed the sky and the whole landscape. This happens on a windy and cloudy day. Filled with expression, multicolor paths-rays converge in the center of the composition, where, like the navel of the earth, a brick-red stack rises. The bands convey the dynamics, as if the stack is removed from the foreground and leaves this color flow. Multidirectional and contrasting diagonals of the earth and sky speed up this movement.