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At the Graveyard

Creation period
1900s
Dimensions
45x45 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
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Lukian Popov
At the Graveyard
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At the Imperial Academy of Arts, Lukian Popov took classes from Vladimir Makovsky, master of genre painting. From his tutor, he adopted the masterly handling of color and the ability to build composition. Popov himself also often made genre paintings. One of them, At the Graveyard, the artist created in the 1900’s. 

The most part of the canvas is occupied by mournful black. The clothes and the background are just outlined sketchily; in stark contrast, the faces of the main characters, woman and boy, are painted with neat strokes. The emphasis on characters is shown by the absence of a funeral ceremony or cemetery attributes: Lukian Popov did not tell the viewer the story of the tragedy, but tried to demonstrate how the characters in the picture perceived it. 
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Woe, late 1890’s to early 1900’s
Another mourning picture of this time, Woe, is made in a similar technique. The background and clothes are also sketchy, but the faces and hands of women are painted in great detail. One of the women is wearing her wedding ring on her left hand. Thus we can assume that she has recently lost her husband: in the Russian tradition, only widows wore the wedding ring on the left hand.
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The Child in the Coffin, 1913
At the same time, one of his darkest works, The Child in the Coffin (1913), Lukian Popov painted in bright colors. The picture shows his little deceased niece. The child is covered with a pink shawl and some airy transparent fabric, and her coffin is surrounded by bouquets of lilac and other flowers. 
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The Orthodox icons in the background are shining with gold in the light of the funeral candles.
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Group Portrait of Niva Magazine Employees, 1905
Although Popov paid a lot of attention to social problems and related subjects, not all of his genre paintings are devoted to conflict or mourning topics. For example, the Group Portrait of Niva Magazine Employees (1905) shows a lively get-together of the magazine’s editorial team. Another canvas, The Buddies, depicts a bunch of friends having a merry feast.
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The Buddies, 1904. Source: wikipedia.org
Popov was born to a peasant family in the Orenburg province. He often created canvases with folk motifs. He portrayed his wife Vera Popova in traditional dresses, as in the painting Portrait of the Wife in a Red Sundress, depicted villagers as in the painting Deep Sleep, and introduced folk themes into his genre paintings, for example, The Groom. 
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On his canvases dedicated to the resettlement of peasants, Lukian Popov depicted the hardships experienced by the people, who, in search of a better-fed life, were forced to move from place to place.
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At the Graveyard

Creation period
1900s
Dimensions
45x45 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
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