These apples are covering an unsuccessful landscape; the reds of rowan-berry (or something like that) against high-pitched greenery turned out too in-your-face for me to pull of. But I like that the unrecognizable clusters of rowan-berries, pretending to be random brushstrokes in the background, rhyme with the circular movement of the bowl edge and the shadowy parts of apples.
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An utter departure of his earlier Repin-esque impressionism -- minimalism, austerity, hard lines. I have always been fascinated by his colour solution here -- this complete identity of the background colour and the flesh colour, which creates an unusual combination of graphic quality with colour effects worthy of the accomplished colourist he was: blues and greens at the bottom, and a single dark-red spot -- her lips. Note also how the composition is completed by the apparently random darker triangle in the upper-left corner -- just cover it, and the painting is completely different. by Lena Levin
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Well, may be "in-progress" is not exactly the right expression, since there has been no progress on this for a couple of months; and I am not exactly sure what I want to do with it. Critique and suggestions welcome. by Lena Levin
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