From the hight of bird's flight. Works in gouache and many others by Eugenia Gamburd (1913–1956)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the less known landscapes created by Eugenia Gamburd. During her life under the ideological pressing she has been appreciated as a good master of theatrical costume, but her creative activity as a delicate landscape painter has been criticized by the communist demagogues. She worked in gouache overcoming the deficit of technique, but skillfully trying to make alive coloring and texture. It becomes clear if to see the landscapes of 1943-1944, she has created in Moscow, or her Moldavian pictures of the postwar decade. An abstract interpretation in the arrangement of the plane, independently of paper’s or cartoon’s size, has favored the appearance of monumental expressivity of images, as well as the color orchestration has contributed to reconstruction of real atmosphere with characteristic signs of the historical epoch.