Figure 1.--We know nothing about Russian artist Petrov Vodkin. We do know a distinctive portrait of a Russian boy painted by him, probably in the 1960s. . |
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We know nothing about Russian artist Petrov Vodkin. We do know a distinctive portrait of a Russian boy painted by him, probably in the 1960s. While wehave no information on the artist's professional standing. We do think that he has very effectively captured the boy's spirit. There is a kind of wildness expressed in the portrait. It strikes us that the brooding peasant boy is more appropriate for the pre-Revolutionary er that the Socialist utopia of the 1960s. Perhaps the artist was painting a historical image, although there is no way of telling this from the painting.
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