zoetica:One of the very first painters I truly loved -and love to this day- Boris Kustodiev. It’s so
zoetica:One of the very first painters I truly loved -and love to this day- Boris Kustodiev. It’s sort of embarrassing, since that fact alone points squarely at all my mushy insides, but it’s true - I love the super-saturation, the rotund, rosy-cheeked, happy Russians and the love beaming from every stroke. So there. When I was growing up, Kustodiev’s land-of-plenty Russia was long gone, but this is how I like to think of it when I need a break from the Dostoyevsky version.Boris Kustodiev also did some interesting illustrations, among them contributing art to Gogol’s Dead Souls. I’ll have to track those down at some point. -- source link