Description:
Visual Description: This horizontal oil painting depicts a rural landscape, featuring a paved road that stretches from the bottom right corner and diagonally crosses the composition toward its horizon. In the right foreground, a young man and a woman ride a dark blue motorcycle, facing the viewer. The driver wears a white shirt and brown pants, while the woman in a pink headscarf behind him sports a dark orange dress. Behind them, in the far distance, a horse carriage with a large haystack heads down the road.
On the left side of the road, at about the same distance as the carriage, stands a wooden windmill. The conical structure with a dark roof and gray, weathered wooden walls has three visible brown blades extending horizontally from the top on each side. Small white posts line both sides of the road at regular intervals.
The road is surrounded on both sides by wild flowers and grass with patches of white, pink, and blue flowers among green grass. Flat agricultural fields extend to the horizon in bands of green, tan, and brown. On the left, in the distance, three combine harvesters work in the wheat field. A dark horizontal band forms a distant tree line across the background.
The sky, a soft gradient of pale tones of blue, gray, cream, and soft yellow, occupies the upper half of the canvas. A small pale yellow moon appears in the upper center. On the right, the sky transitions to warmer peach and orange tones, suggesting either sunrise or sunset. There is a helicopter moving away from the scene in the upper left side as well. (Alexandra Kukulina '26; Voice: Dana Coe)
Label Text:
In this painting, the rural landscape is presented as a man-made creation—a vision of beauty shaped by socialist labor and technological progress. As the windmill blades turn and combines harvest the wheat, the scene is animated by a striking array of vehicles: a horse-drawn hay cart, a bicycle, a joyful couple riding a motorcycle, and a helicopter soaring through the sky.
MT, 2025
Tags:
roads; vehicles; couples; structures; landscapes; agriculture; aircraft; harvesting; people Subjects:
Painting; Couples; Landscapes; Roads; Valleys; Vehicles; Canvas Link to share this object record:
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