On the canvases of Chuikov – mountain villages and pastures, Kyrgyz shepherds, children, slender dark-skinned women. Kyrgyzstan is the birthplace of Chuikov. His childhood passed here. Chuikov studied first in the Tashkent Art School, then in Moscow, in VHUTEMAS under the direction of RR Falk. His works “Bednyatsky ail”, “Hunter gerbkutom”, “Evening in the herd”, performed shortly after the graduation of the institute, attracted the character of the plots in which the specific nature of Kyrgyzstan is revealed, the peculiarity of the national way of life.
However, with the closest attention to the daily life of Kyrgyzstan, Chuikov does not become its bytopisatel. He is interested not in petty domestic details, but in the poetic atmosphere that arises from the constant contact of man with nature and manifests itself in the whole way of life, behavior and character of people. People with a proud bearing and smooth movements seem quite natural against the background of a majestic nature, bathed in the generous southern sun. Chuikov’s canvases rarely have more than two or three figures, and, as a rule, almost no effect. The heroes of his paintings are most often immersed in the contemplation of the surrounding.
The artist especially likes the motives of the early morning or the coming evening, when the day’s affairs and worries have not yet managed to take hold of people or have been left behind when nothing breaks the harmony of man and nature. This work includes the painting “Morning in a mountain village.” In the center of the composition is a Kirghiz girl. A round childish face with a swarthy blush and narrow black eyes glows with joy. In the crystal clear morning air, the majestic mountain ranges seem to be close, towering against the background of a clear blue sky. Sunlit slopes alternate with deep shady gorges.
The bright sparkling colors of the flaming morning are, as it were, saturated with warm sunlight. The color for Chuikov’s works is the most important expressive means. In color, the artist builds a shape, transfers space, volume, texture of objects and, most importantly, creates an emotional atmosphere.
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