The painting “Market Day in the Old City” can be placed alongside many of the works of BM Kustodiev, SV Ivanov, AP Ryabushkin, born with a deep love for Russian folklore. A simple everyday episode of the artist made an occasion for a colorful story about the old province.
At the monastery walls rustles a colorful market. The rising sun gilds a frosty haze. Under the canopies, thickly powdered with bluish snow, the red goods lay on the shelves. The motley crowd is buzzing, power-stricken peasants and talkative women, clever shopkeepers, talk at shops. Like a flower garden stretched out on a white meadow: women’s shawls, shawls, hangers, caftans, fur coats, armeni, sheepskin coats, hats, skuffs, hoods – everything is dazzling, flickering, moving, and it seems that a copper buzz floats above the monastery.
The artist achieves the necessary emotional impression not by drawing out numerous details, which are quite easy to interest the viewer in a historical work, but rather by conveying first of all the general atmosphere of the event, the mood of this historical moment. Another feature that is characteristic of this work and for the manner of Goryushkin as a whole is noteworthy: he does not strive to accurately convey the texture of objects in a naturalistic way, but always achieves that it can be guessed in a clear color characteristic.
Thanks to this, you can clearly feel the brocade sparkling with gold sewing, and the gentle depth of velvet, and rough rough sheepskin. The old life, admiring her, ringing, many-voiced, solemnly bright, saw Goriushkin-Sorokopudov admired her, and these feelings were full, voiced in pictures. According to Yu. Nekhoroshev’s book “Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov”
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