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Under the Red Light

Creation period
1910s
Dimensions
102x129 cm
Technique
Oil on canvas
2
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Lukian Popov
Under the Red Light
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As early as during his studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts, Russian realist painter Lukian Popov used a special technique in his paintings – he created special moods using light. In the 1910s, Popov completed his painting ‘Under the Red Light’, one of his most sophisticated works in that respect.

At first glance, it may appear that the artist has pictured a friendly get-together that went on into early morning with one of its participants falling asleep at the table. 

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However, the entire space of the painting is filled with dense and turbulent red light varying from scarlet to crimson and magenta in tone. Popov used that solution to disguise the painting’s hidden meaning: during the reactionary stagnation that followed the Russian Revolution of 1905, the country saw the growth of social tensions and the emergence of new revolutionary sentiments.
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In his canvas, the artist portrayed representatives of different social strata – from married couples to intelligentsia performing government service – to show that revolutionary tension was gradually seizing all country residents. However, it cannot be said for sure whether or not he supported the revolutionaries, as in 1913, the year of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the House of Romanov, he painted a portrait of Emperor Nicholas II for the assembly hall of the Boys Gymnasium.
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Popov focused on stories that exposed acute social issues, inter alia, because of his own deprived childhood and youth. He was born into a poor peasant family, earned his own money for his studies in St. Petersburg. Out of dire need, he lived just on boiled potatoes for months, and was compelled to apply for free studies at the Painting School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts. In 1903, he became a full member of the Itinerants Association that brought together artists interested in social issues.
Popov did not always use light to create dramatic tension, but he used it often to convey a special mood. In his painting “Writing a Letter”, which he created in the late 1890s – early 1900s, the dim light of the oil lamp implies intimate and personal nature of the message being written. In his canvas entitled “The Cellist”, an invisible light source focuses the viewer’s attention on the graceful shape of the musical instrument.
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Under the Red Light

Creation period
1910s
Dimensions
102x129 cm
Technique
Oil on canvas
2
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