DP Shterenberg was one of the active organizers and members of the Society of Artists-Easelists. Works of the master are characterized by expressive sharpness of images, laconic composition, generality and clarity of the picture, deliberately planar construction of space.
However, the heroine of the artist is not a cheerful, happy sportswoman, but a peasant girl, in whose mind the memory of the famine of the 1920s is forever preserved. She stands near the table, on it a plate with a scrap of black bread.
The table is absolutely empty, this is a bare field with only one subject-symbol – bread. Shterenberg refuses to reproduce reality in detail, creating a conventionally illusory blue-brown space. Miserable but precisely verified means of color and composition Shterenberg recreates the tragedy of the era.