1969
Pressed wood panel (orgalite), oil paint
61,5 x 49,5

In this still life the artist was attracted exclusively by the structure of the objects and their material essence. Over the course of his entire artistic career, Krasnopevtsev was true to the recognizable style that he had first found. The rounded, strong volumes of the jugs against the neutral background are modeled with a rare feeling for shapes. Isolated by the artist from everything surrounding them, they live their own self-contained life. The profound concentration on revealing the shape of simple and eternal objects creates the illusion of absence of time and space. A silvery light reveals the contours of the vessels, magnifying their material palpability. The solemnity is enhanced by the twilight coldness of the palette. Indifference to the surrounding milieu underlines as it were the sacral importance of the depicted objects.

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