On the boulevard Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920)
Vladimir Makovsky – On the boulevard
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Painter: Vladimir Makovsky
Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Государственная Третьяковская галерея).
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Vladimir Makovsky touched upon in his 1877 painting On the Boulevard one of the most acute problems in Russia at the time, which may seem distant and irrelevant now, but to his contemporaries it must have seemed quite typical. The main problem of the picture is the departure of the peasants in the city to earn money. The breadwinner was forced to leave his family: parents, wife, children, life without them was disrupted, the family connection weakened and even disappeared, and the usual foundations of the village world collapsed, as did the patriarchal world. The main characters of "On the Boulevard" are a wife who came to her young husband in Moscow and the husband himself, who, like many others, went to the city to earn money and changed beyond recognition.
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Vladimir Makovsky touched upon in his 1877 painting On the Boulevard one of the most acute problems in Russia at the time, which may seem distant and irrelevant now, but to his contemporaries it must have seemed quite typical.
The main problem of the picture is the departure of the peasants in the city to earn money. The breadwinner was forced to leave his family: parents, wife, children, life without them was disrupted, the family connection weakened and even disappeared, and the usual foundations of the village world collapsed, as did the patriarchal world.
The main characters of "On the Boulevard" are a wife who came to her young husband in Moscow and the husband himself, who, like many others, went to the city to earn money and changed beyond recognition. Such changes in her husband’s behavior surprised and saddened the girl, who had come to Moscow hoping to share everything she had accumulated with her husband. But when she arrives on the boulevard and sits on a bench, he seems not to notice her beloved.
City life has taken hold of him: here he is, fat and tipsy, lounging about imposingly, playing the harmonica, while thinking of nothing and no one but himself and his appearance. He is ruddy and pleased with himself, which cannot be said of his wife: saddened by the irreparable changes, she is hunched over and looks away in despair. Perhaps she is ashamed of her beloved, perhaps she regrets the loss of her soul mate, and, of course, it is very hard for her to realize her uselessness to this man. The whole picture unfolds against the background of an autumn cityscape: trees with fallen leaves, gray sky and roofs of houses with small patches of snow; which adds even more drama to it.
Small in size and subject matter, the canvas contained a lot of thoughts, experiences, observations of the artist. Yes, the picture is somewhat irrelevant today, but that does not prevent its idea and sympathy for the girls of those times, who found themselves in a similar situation, as well as their families.
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Perhaps it’s a painting of a man and a woman sitting on a bench next to each other on a park bench in front of a tree filled with leaves.