In the painting ‘Going on a Visit’ Fedot Sychkov captured two rural beauties. The girls choose the best clothes to go out. One of them put on a red embroidered sundress and a white blouse. The second is in a colorful purple headscarf, a blue blouse, and a brown sundress, belted with a striped apron.
The cheeks of the sitting girl are burning, not as much from a hotly heated oven, but from her anticipation of the visit. One girl is already dressed up but is still in the izba. She wants to help her cheeky friend, who cannot choose an outfit. The artist shows an abundance of clothes and jewelry collected by more than one generation of women, all these valuable pieces are carefully stored in a forged chest, which the author placed in the foreground. The chest is filled with elegant fabrics: to see all the contents, the girls placed a part of them (the green headscarf with red flowers and the pink fabric) on the hinged lid.
To convey to the viewers the feeling that overwhelms the girls, the artist created composition accordingly: daylight beams through the window that remains behind the frame of the picture. He highlighted the radiant happy face of the young model while placing the second girl slightly into the shade. The corner with the icon and the walls are in a warm semi-darkness.
Fedot Sychkov very carefully depicted the textures of the objects. He painted with ease and freedom: with just a few brushstrokes he managed to realistically convey the warmth of the logs and the cold smoothness of glass. The fabric of every detail of clothing is easily recognizable: light cambric and dense satin blouses, satin ribbons, thin wool shawls, rough linen tablecloths, and towels.
To create the painting, the artist used a cherished chest of his wife as a prop. At numerous village fairs, Lydia Sychkova would buy headscarves, shawls, ribbons, jewelry, and different fabrics. Then she would sew sundresses and skirts, aprons and blouses and help her husband, the artist, in choosing outfits for his Kochelayevo models. Her favorite sewing machine ‘Triumph’ and the chest with its contents are now displayed at the House Museum in the village of Kochelayevo.
The cheeks of the sitting girl are burning, not as much from a hotly heated oven, but from her anticipation of the visit. One girl is already dressed up but is still in the izba. She wants to help her cheeky friend, who cannot choose an outfit. The artist shows an abundance of clothes and jewelry collected by more than one generation of women, all these valuable pieces are carefully stored in a forged chest, which the author placed in the foreground. The chest is filled with elegant fabrics: to see all the contents, the girls placed a part of them (the green headscarf with red flowers and the pink fabric) on the hinged lid.
To convey to the viewers the feeling that overwhelms the girls, the artist created composition accordingly: daylight beams through the window that remains behind the frame of the picture. He highlighted the radiant happy face of the young model while placing the second girl slightly into the shade. The corner with the icon and the walls are in a warm semi-darkness.
Fedot Sychkov very carefully depicted the textures of the objects. He painted with ease and freedom: with just a few brushstrokes he managed to realistically convey the warmth of the logs and the cold smoothness of glass. The fabric of every detail of clothing is easily recognizable: light cambric and dense satin blouses, satin ribbons, thin wool shawls, rough linen tablecloths, and towels.
To create the painting, the artist used a cherished chest of his wife as a prop. At numerous village fairs, Lydia Sychkova would buy headscarves, shawls, ribbons, jewelry, and different fabrics. Then she would sew sundresses and skirts, aprons and blouses and help her husband, the artist, in choosing outfits for his Kochelayevo models. Her favorite sewing machine ‘Triumph’ and the chest with its contents are now displayed at the House Museum in the village of Kochelayevo.
