Konstantin Yuon, Soft Goods, 1905

K. Yuon, Красный товар. Ростов Великий
watercolor, 1905
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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A watercolor carrying very well, I think, some features of Mir Isskustva, the group of artists having Yuon among its regulars: rejection of modernity  and refuge in the rural universe, joy of playing there with colors and sizes, down to making fun of these colors and sizes, a very healthy senzation of feeling good among these personages, of wishing to get out of your urbanite stupid code of do's and don'ts and enter the painting, to become one of them, to sell, to buy, to offer, to cheat, to tell stories, true or fake, to make jokes, naive or frust, to speak your mind,  to live in the open.




(Konstantin Yuon)