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.
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.