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Settlers in Thunderstorm

Creation period
1900’s
Dimensions
74,5x123 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
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Lukian Popov
Settlers in Thunderstorm
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While still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Lukian Popov began to participate in exhibitions of the Association of Itinerants, and in 1903 he was accepted into the Association as full member. Along with artists Sergei Ivanov and Nikolai Kasatkin, he was considered one of the most progressive late Itinerants who paid special attention to social problems. Resettlement of Russian peasants at the turn of the century is one of the central topics of Lukian Popov’s works. 

In his picture Settlers in Thunderstorm of the 1900’s, Popov depicted a group of people caught by bad autumn weather along the way. The artist sets a gloomy, tragic tone of the canvas through color contrasts and composition: the dirt road stretches from the lower edge of the picture, and it seems as though the viewer is being pulled along with the peasant cart. 
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Peasant resettlement was a forced measure. Some peasants, mostly residents of central Russia, were leaving villages due to overpopulation and land issues, while others were simply looking for a better life. By 1911, more than half of the resettled peasants returned to their native villages, having failed to take root in new places.
At the end of the 19th century, Orenburg was one of the settlers’ strongholds. Popov watched their wagons throughout his childhood and youth. The artist witnessed the migration of peasants during his Academy-paid trip across the country at the beginning of the 20th century.
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In his paintings, the artist emphasized not only the road hardships of the settlers, but also the massive scale of this social phenomenon. Most of his paintings devoted to this subject depict a lot of people: whether it is an early sketch of the 1890’s Settlers’ Camp, the painting Settlers in Summer of the late 1890’s - early 1900’s, or the canvas featuring a long peasant convoy, Settlers in Winter.
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Sergey Ivanov. Returnees, 1888.  Source: wikipedia.org
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In general, the subject of resettlement was popular among other artists of that era; for example, Itinerant artist Sergey Ivanov devoted a lot of his paintings to it. However, in his paintings he took the personal tragedy of wandering peasants to the fore. A good example is his canvas Returnees of 1888 with several dark figures of dirty, impoverished peasants who have to return to their homeland.
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Threesome (Dispute), 1900’s
Migration was not the only sensitive issue that Popov touched on. He was interested in many acute social processes that took place in Russia before and after the 1905 revolution. While still at the Academy, he painted the Threesome (Dispute), depicting a clash of worldviews of people belonging to different social strata. People’s uncertainty during the reactionary time after the 1905 Revolution is reflected in his later-period canvases Meadows Flooded and In Red Light.
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1. In Red Light, 1910’s. 2. Meadows Flooded, 1908
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Settlers in Thunderstorm

Creation period
1900’s
Dimensions
74,5x123 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
2
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