The artist is Bogorodsky
A series of portraits of sailors opens the stage of Bogorodsky’s work, into which he enters after the large reporting personal exhibition of 1931. From now on, sailors are becoming his main characters. “After my exhibition, I went to the Black Sea. For six months I spent on warships among the Red Flot youth, infected with Komsomol vivacity and cheerful foamy courage, ”he recalled.
“Youth” can be considered a picturesque dedication of the artist for new friends. The artist indirectly polemicizes with photography gaining more and more popularity, defending the uniqueness of the possibilities of painting in creating an artistic image. For the happiness of the people. Catalog of the exhibition of the Russian Museum in Malaga. 2018. WITH. 18.
The composition of the picture puts it in a series of double portraits made by Bogorodsky in 1932, directly recreating the situation of posing to the photographer or hinting at it.
The composition of the picture puts it in a series of double portraits made by Bogorodsky in 1932, directly recreating the situation of posing to the photographer or hinting at it. The artist indirectly polemicizes with photography gaining more and more popularity, defending the uniqueness of the possibilities of painting in creating an artistic image. This series of portraits opens up a new stage in the work of Bogorodsky, into which he enters after the large reporting personal exhibition of 1931. From now on, sailors are becoming his main characters. “After my exhibition, I went to the Black Sea. For six months I spent on warships among the Red Flot youth, infected with Komsomol vivacity and cheerful foamy courage, ”he recalled. “Youth” can be considered a picturesque dedication of the artist for new friends. (L.B.). Russian portrait. XX century: St. Petersburg, 2001. WITH. 229.
