Happiness

Description

Author: Dzhusupov Ali. 1928-1976
A genre composition depicting two women inside a yurt interior. In the foreground, a woman in a yellow-ochre national dress and white headscarf sits rocking a besik (cradle) with a child. Behind her stands a second woman with her arm around her shoulder. The background is rendered with elements of traditional yurt furnishings - a red canopy, kerege (yurt lattice framework), a chest, and a tekemet (felt carpet). The manner of execution is genre-ethnographic, with detailed rendering of costumes and household objects, characteristic of academic painting on national themes. Bottom right - signature and date.