1921
Carton, tempera
71 õ 100,8
Yuon’s symbolic-allegorical painting is one of the first works embodying the image of the October Revolution.
The painting was born from a sketch for a stage curtain. Possible for this reason decorative conventions predominate; the theatricality of gestures, movements and the appearances of people is distinctly present. A leaning to generalization and symbolic motifs arises as a consequence of reflections on the recent events. The artist tries to understand the Revolution as an event of universal scale: as a result of a cosmic cataclysm there is born a new planet, lighting up the world with troubling alarm flashes of light. People in commotion and joy observe the collapse of the old world.
“Living thought and live imagination cannot move past the grandeur of the events without delving deeply into their important meaning for the world,” Falk wrote in 1925. “My personal paths are directed to finding ... a language and signs capable of giving immediate expression to my ideas.”
