Bread

Description

Author: Nurlybayev, Muratbek. 1937-2013
A genre composition on the theme of labor depicts three women baking bread against a backdrop of a wheat field and a mountain range: seated on the left at a low round table, a woman rolls out flatbreads, while on the right a girl in a yellow dress and red headscarf leans over the table to arrange the freshly baked bread, with another girl holding a flatbread visible in the distance near a round tandoor oven. A sack of flour marked with a date stands in the lower right corner. Arranged diagonally, the figures are united through a sequence of labor, their forms generalized. The palette is built on the warm golden-ochre tones of the field, echoed by the white garments and vibrant red-and-yellow accents.