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I have long wanted to create a theme and offer it to maintain, continue and develop. After all, any writer just always something to say to his work. There can be nothing to say ... , although it happens. This topic can be serious (have something to talk to artists about what a particular product and not just painting), and funny, so make a joke in this thread will definitely be something to ... This issue may be of interest to collectors and art historians, and simply art lovers, because it is interesting because to try to unravel the thought and feeling of the artist, which he lays in his work.

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 One of my favorite artists - it's Leonid Solomatkin. I had not really paid attention to his work and even the youthful extremism treated them graciously, foolishly comparing it with Fedotov. One of the works Solomatkin in the Tretyakov Gallery - "Wandering Musicians". She stopped me and forced to think about. Here's how I read this work. The work was written in 1872. It shows the musicians (this is understandable), <!--~ 1 "-" to lead a retired soldier, probably a drummer, Russia lost the Crimean War of 1853-1856. The fact that this former soldier is seen and headdress, and hiking clothes and a stick on which he relies, but the patient is moving forward, and on a sad note with a drooping mustache, and most importantly, what is all the sad irony Solomatkin - a tambourine in his hand, a tambourine with rattles, rather than regimental drum company in the attack and lift an evil monkey on his back, as the marching-on luggage. This whole procession of dressed up, even dog runs in the hood musicians whine, but soldiers are not dressed in colorful rags, he is all in the thoughts, but it looks the same disguised as his companions. And where is this cavalcade? In town, people cherish the music, under the dog's howl with a rattle. People need a holiday! Yes, this is a very sad picture, and they're all so multifaceted and tragic at Solomatkin only start to solve.
 And I read somewhere that the 19 th century Russian art "literaturotsentrichno", ie word, thought in the forefront of the artist, unlike the artists of Europe.