1923
oil on canvas
100 õ 140
This painting is one of the first industrial landscapes in Soviet art, a genre which subsequently became widespread.
Continuing the traditions of Russian realistic painting, Yakovlev created the landscape painting. The artist found precise correlation between the landscape space and the panorama view of the natural world with depiction of industrial motifs. The painting poetically and precisely determines the spirit of the time, the romance involved in the creation of the industry of the new state.
Yakovlev opens up his industrial theme with the help of a “lyrical key.” Notwithstanding all the historical specificity and persuasiveness of the artistic testimony, the landscape arouses the dream of a “flourishing of the soil and labour, and gave resonance to the symbol: “Everything will straighten out! It will all work!”
