Alexei completed his painting ‘After a Party’ in 1956. In it, he depicts a young man and women walking across a wooden bridge over an unkept pond with their arms around each other. The twilight imbues the landscape with purple and silvery hues. The greenery on the opposite bank of the bond is ensconced amongst dark shadows. The young woman’s brightly shimmering dress forms a vibrant highlight within this soft lyrical painting.
Art Historian Anna Diyakonitsyna has written that this painting’s composition is one of Alexei Tkachyov’s indisputable successes. “Whilst it is small, with a seemingly simple subject, it is free and virtuosic in its execution. Using quick and precise brush strokes - which are occasionally abrupt or overhanging - the wooden bridge has a clear outline, which leads the eye deeper into the painting, to the figures of a man and woman moving away from the viewer.”
A similar real wooden bridge over an unkept pond inspired the artist. He spotted it at the “Akademicheskaya Dacha” - the former creative headquarters of the Union of Artists, which is located in Vyshny Volochyok. The Tkachyov brothers went there to work in the middle of the 1950’s.
Art Historian Anna Diyakonitsyna has written that this painting’s composition is one of Alexei Tkachyov’s indisputable successes. “Whilst it is small, with a seemingly simple subject, it is free and virtuosic in its execution. Using quick and precise brush strokes - which are occasionally abrupt or overhanging - the wooden bridge has a clear outline, which leads the eye deeper into the painting, to the figures of a man and woman moving away from the viewer.”
A similar real wooden bridge over an unkept pond inspired the artist. He spotted it at the “Akademicheskaya Dacha” - the former creative headquarters of the Union of Artists, which is located in Vyshny Volochyok. The Tkachyov brothers went there to work in the middle of the 1950’s.
