Lukian Popov’s painting Meadows Flooded (1908), demonstrates many characteristic features of his creative work. The artist carefully built the genre composition, employed his color and light skills and emphasized the psychological details, despite the fact that the work itself was devoted to a social problem.
The artist took a long time preparing for painting. Its plot echoes his early painting The River is Playing on which Popov had worked while still studying at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The artist’s wife Vera Popova recalled that the artist had created that painting entirely on the basis of sketches made from nature. Many of the older Itinerants worked in the same way. The artist visited the spring floods of the Ural River together with the models. The group of women he portrayed in more suitable weather in the courtyard of his house, where a fence was specially built for that purpose.
The artist took a long time preparing for painting. Its plot echoes his early painting The River is Playing on which Popov had worked while still studying at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The artist’s wife Vera Popova recalled that the artist had created that painting entirely on the basis of sketches made from nature. Many of the older Itinerants worked in the same way. The artist visited the spring floods of the Ural River together with the models. The group of women he portrayed in more suitable weather in the courtyard of his house, where a fence was specially built for that purpose.
