What direction?
 

It is important to hear authoritative views about the artistic direction, which could be considered provided the thing.
Very rude oil on canvas, 22H52.
  Canvas 50 years. No signature. The frame is new.
White fragments are not crumbling paint layer, and the unpainted bottom of the canvas.
From a distance the image reminds the crowd of people.

Apparently this is some kind of market where selling fruit (bright spots), if we assume, as you say that this crowd of people.
First impression was that this market. But where? For Asia-sellers, and all wearing dark background dark, north-may not be - where there is fruit?
Judging from the canvas, we can assume that this work was written by someone from the pupils at the school, evacuated during the Second World War. At that time they were written on all that will fall under the arm.

dedulya37, it is written in such a manner that it can be assumed and the Bazaar, and turn, and crowds of onlookers, and the tram stop ...
That's interesting to me and - is the direction in painting as something called, given that this sketch is not? And, I repeat, the white spots on it - a blank canvas.
I can not say that the work of native brush.
  Strangely it seems to me the fact that for a small picture of a selected scrim. Although, given that the thing is cut off, we can assume that maybe this fragment of something bigger ...

This is a shopping arcade. Charshiya depicted on the market, trade is likely to oriental food oranges kuraga.Takoe could be drawn in Odessa, brushwork left unpainted canvas to create a kind of glow applied some of the Odessa hud.60-70gg. L. Mezhberg, A. Freidin, L. Dulfan, etc. While there may be trade and flowers, floral Bazarchik morning, it seems to me that the product of more domestic, one of the thin. supporter of unofficial art.

Please forgive me, but it is a very broad definition - an adherent of unofficial art.
And again, subconsciously we attribute this to the Soviet era. :)
And if you look at it more, so to speak, "global"?
More so that your words about the manner of writing, when the unpainted canvas creates a kind of glow, I at all desire can not be attributed to this image.
Here I was a little "backlight" to show - "the glow" no.

And why do you argue?

To argue in this case can not do anything.
But such reasoning.
Canvas circumcised. And he is rough and hard.
In addition, priming of the canvas is that the "fragment" of the same density and intransigence, as karton.Chto can think of it as part of some great pictures.
I do not think it was used to настроенческих etudes.
But, however, the question is easier - it fits into this thing, if it is viewed as an independent, in an artistic direction?

heir, we must not look at the canvas and not on his grntovku, but the image itself on the canvas.
This, of course, the sketch.
Fast, alla prima, in one step, without podmalevka and preliminary propisok.
Hence, unsecured, unpainted areas of canvas.

heir, a sketch, a good sketch,
and history - try in a direction that prompted Grandpa or SAN

... so calculatedly and deliberately left that create a complete impression of the image? In which one can assume anything that will allow viewers imagination
In many ways you see yourself right, but here - do not agree. While I understand that the only difference in the assessment of subjective impressions. :)

... If this is not the direction that I do not undertake to determine, it's really, most likely, individual style of the author, not demonstrated in the sketch.