The Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts presents a linocut by Dmitry Pavlovich Tsup called “Noon. Haymaking Time”. In it, the artist addressed the subject of rural landscape. The viewers can see villagers at the hayfield: some are busy harvesting grass, some are cooking food for the mowers, and some are resting in the shade. The picture also depicts grazing horses. Close to the center of the composition is a large sprawling tree. The gloomy sky, covered with clouds from which heavy rain is pouring, combined with the large format of this engraving, makes the scene seem epic and immense.
The only way acceptable to Dmitry Tsup that could yield the necessary results was to work incessantly from nature and in nature every day. He had the rare gift of conveying the whole power of emotions with a few precise strokes of a pencil. Tsup was a landscape painter, and he was mainly interested in the nature of central Russia. The rural motifs in his engravings and watercolors are absolutely unique when it comes to Soviet graphics. He produced series of works, united by a certain technique or place. Tsup was drawn to nature in all its states and sought to capture the slightest change in it on paper. He also set great store by land and people who enriched it with their effort.
