In 1867, Perov, Vasily Grigorievich painted the picture “The Drowned Man”. In this work, he wanted to show the indifference and indifference of people to the ongoing disaster.
Looking at the picture, it is impossible not to notice the sharp transition of light to dark tones. In the background you can see a large city, still covered with morning fog. A big river over which birds fly. The morning rays of the sun glide over it, and it is reflected by a light yellow light. And there would seem to be nothing ordinary in this picture, a simple city morning, if not its foreground.
In the foreground, the body of a young girl falls into the eyes of a black spot. Above him sits indifferently, smoking a cigar, a gendarme. He does not look at the body of the girl. His face does not express any sympathy for the young lady. Perhaps because of his profession, he behaves this way. Frequent deaths are not uncommon at that time, and willy-nilly you begin to get used to them. And, perhaps, he is just a callous and soulless person who is not at all interested in someone’s fate.
Vasily Perov wanted to convey the drowned woman very precisely, so for more realism I looked for models in the morgue. In one of these girls, he recognized his friend Faina. She was sick with tuberculosis and died. It was from her author and wrote “drowned.” And although there are many models who posed for famous authors, but their names remained unfamiliar, when Perov’s picture made her girlfriend famous, although posthumously.
By his reproduction, the artist wanted to show not the problem of some kind of social injustice or the hopelessness of the situation, but the inner qualities of the human soul. In this case, it is indifference, indifference, ignorance and even cruelty. There are insensitive people who have no regrets and sympathy for others. I wish that in our time there were very few such people.
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