Two

Description

Author: Yesirkeyev, Kuanysh. 1947
A portrait of two women set against a dark geometrized architectural plane and an ochre-yellow foreground receding towards the horizon line. To the left is an elderly woman in a green garment and a white headdress, her hands folded on her lap. To the right is a young woman in light, almost white clothing, holding a kobyz. The figures are presented in static, frontally oriented poses characteristic of monumental composition. The painterly manner is distinguished by a cubizing treatment of form: the volumes of faces and draperies are broken down into large planes, while the colour palette is built upon the contrast between the dark background and saturated local colours. The space is conventional, and the composition is structured through the planar interaction of large colour masses.