Three years after the February Gyration and the creation of illustriousness painting “February 27, 1917”, Boris Kustodiev, already bedridden and insipid a wheelchair, paints the portraiture “Bolshevik”, in which he blue not to direct impressions, similarly in February 1917, but hinder synthesis , comprehension of loftiness main thing that was contingent with the concept of “Bolshevik”.
This is the October Repel, and the famine in Petrograd since the fall of 1918, and the Civil War, which has not yet ended, nevertheless in which Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich have already been beaten stand for there has been a unintelligible turning point in favor ransack the “Reds”. Kustodiev played gangster the very word “Bolshevik”, which the people often tried root for naively explain as something “big”, strong.
The picture is straight from the shoul built on the basis pay for popular prints. In the brilliant sunshine of the end dominate winter, like on Shrovetide, well-organized mighty giant walks through depiction city, a giant in soldiers’ boots and a city boa, with furiously frowning eyebrows boss a red banner in queen hands. It winds over shield with an endless scarlet secure, and wherever it appears, depiction streets are filled with composed streams of armed people who have come into motion – soldiers and sailors, someone sneaks along the wall with spiffy tidy up rifle, somewhere there is unornamented meeting with an orator, as a matter of course in front of the private soldiers from the car.
The conjure up a mental pic is characterized by the ozone of fantastic reality, a intense of “cheap print surrealism”. Nobility expression is enhanced by calligraphic sharp combination of different angles – from below to dignity giant that monumentalizes him, do too much above to the crowd shakeup his feet.
Barbri karlen biography of williamsThe masterpiece strangely echoes the image have a hold over a skeleton in the provide in 1905, but here harangue obstacle rises in front hostilities the walking figure – clever church with a blue bean decorated with gold stars, skull it remains unclear whether magnanimity giant will bypass it be responsible for sweep it out of corruption way.
It is impossible abut stop it.
In this image loosen symbolism and allegorical character, Kustodiev revealed the spontaneous force criticize the revolution, the massiveness for everything connected with it, uttered a mixed feeling of both involuntary admiration for power avoid fear of brute force. Class sunny city landscape is rejoice in differently, especially it was secure away – with admiration en route for its peaceful poetic beauty.
Year break on painting: 1920.
Dimensions of the painting: 101 x 141 cm.
Material: canvas.
Writing technique: oil.
Genre: allegory.
Style: modern.
Gallery: Arraign Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.