The substantial plot of “Players” was written by the Russian marine painter Dorogov Alexander Matveyevich in 1840. By this time the direction of the author of the side of marine painting was designated and accepted by the society, but Dorogov sometimes deviated from the planned course and wrote such works. The style of the painting can be attributed to the Russian Budermeier. This direction has developed in Austria and Germany, remaining popular for 33 years, since 1815.
Noteworthy Boudermeyer philistine and simple-minded subjects with a share of ridicule over human vices and shortcomings. The theme of gambling, as an example of a certain dependence on one’s preferences, easily fits within the caricature. Roads clearly marked in his work the very face, crossing which, a person can be called a dependent or a gambler.
Pay attention to the situation of the room, to the dirt and left dishes after the meal, a miserable look of the owner of the house and the guests who are immediately asleep. The everyday worries are empty! What they need is a sleepless night and cleanliness, respect for the traditions and opinion of society? The main thing – the fuss and profit, and, perhaps, a loss, but the process itself – there is a sense of evening fees in the game room. Participants in the game are men of different wealth and age.
The owner of the house is dressed in a homemade dressing gown and a characteristic home cap. He does not feel himself a hero of the party, but looks with interest at the rival on the left, waiting for retaliatory actions. The gentleman with the cane is knocked out of the squalid command. He seems more confident in his abilities and the youngest, sleek and well-dressed.
Against the background of the old gray komorki his person just screams with good prosperity and correct behavior. But the citizen on the couch is an outcast of “high society”. He just woke up, but, it seems, still drunk. Who is he? Servant and also a regular passion? In addition to the players, the artist placed in the plot composition of an outside observer, apparently a footman. He opened the door with curiosity, to make sure that everything goes on as usual and the gentlemen are still playing.
Most likely, for the servant not new gatherings until the early morning at the card table. Such an imaginary idyll of human vice appeared before the audience in the performance of a Russian painter. Roads from the bottom of the heart laughed at his heroes and the situation is poor, dirty, broken.
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