Spring, 1935 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Canvas Print - 15217-PVK
Location: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RussiaOriginal Size: unknown
Giclée Canvas Print | $63.20 USD
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*Max printing size: 24 x 20.6 in
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
"Spring" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.
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Painting Information
"Spring," 1935, by Petrov-Vodkin, is a painting that almost hovers, as if it’s caught between reality and some surreal, imagined plane. You can't help but feel like you're intruding on a moment of quiet intimacy, but there's also something slightly uncanny about it. The two figures, sitting casually yet somehow distant, seem to float above the landscape, which Petrov-Vodkin bends and curves in a way that makes everything below look like it’s tipping away from us. There’s a sense of detachment - not only in the perspective but in the way the figures relate to each other, and to the world around them.
The composition is strikingly simple yet disorienting. The man in his Yellow tank top, almost like a figure out of Soviet propaganda, and the woman in her bold blue dress are locked in a kind of quiet tension. They aren't touching, but there’s a strange pull between them, reinforced by the twisting, almost fishbowl-like horizon beneath their feet. The landscape feels like it’s both rising up to meet them and falling away into some other dimension. The village below, with its tiny houses and serpentine roads, is rendered in miniature, while the figures sit with an almost monumental solidity - as if they're anchored in a different reality altogether.
Color plays a big part in this odd, suspended feeling. Petrov-Vodkin uses a restrained palette, but the hits of bright red - like the woman’s discarded hat - add a sharp contrast to the more serene tones of blue and green. The brushwork is clean, controlled, almost too precise, which gives the painting an unsettling calm. The space around the figures is so vast, yet the intimacy between them is close, almost stifling. There’s something eternal about it, but also something unresolved, like we’re watching a story that will never fully unfold. The whole thing feels like it’s teetering on the edge of reality - not quite stable, not quite fully formed.
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