"THE STRIKE"
Oil on canvas on cartboard, 52x36 cm.

Houses with firewalls, a mounting street, smoke from the chimney - everything was painted from life in the low-tech district behind Electrozavodskaya metro station, and it was painted in the Communist epoch. Contrasting cold and warm in the cubistic industrial landscape, statics - perhaps this mood led to the idea to add some movement here and complete the picture with a crowd of people with the flag. What is interesting - being a teenager per se intuitively I depicted this crowd impending under the red flag as featureless as the lonely facades of pre-revolutionary factories.