Russian Art
Malyavin, F. A.
"Peasant Women". 1904
Notes: Peasant Women.
"Peasant Women" is a stunning exercise in the bold use of color. Malyavin's approach forces the mind to oscillate between the painted surface, so forthright in its display of the applied paint, and the subject -- two peasant women on a stroll in their finery, regarding the artist with bashful pride and humor
