Musing At Masterpieces At The Nukus Museum Of Art, Part Two

More rooms, more paintings collected by Igor Savitsky that deserve, demand a gaze. Take a good look.

The Brown Girl by A Poret.

Working hard at the pier. BA Golopolosov's painting, Cleaning the Deck, 1931. Being moody in red. Portrait of Sculptor Fuad Salaev by F Agaev.

Of course, more cotton picking. A painting by AN Volkov from 1945. The deceptive glory. Poetry or propaganda?

A visit to old Bukhara in a painting titled Kalyan Minaret from 1929. By PP Benkov. A humble Uzbek meal, by S Kolibanov, titled Before The Lunch, 1965. Nice touch with iconic ikat fabric as the picnic blanket. Plenty of symbols included, like the non bread, tea and a cotton stem and bloom, similar to what is frequently found in religious Renaissance paintings.

Sad protest. Aral Sea Pieta by J Lepesov. The Pieta theme is the depiction of the recently dead Jesus, being cradled by his mother, the Virgin Mary. It's a go-to image for absolute sadness and defeat. This painting is using the theme to depict a protest of the Soviets for ruining the Aral Sea by draining it for cotton production. Sad, indeed.