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   Non the less persistently does the artist try to record the realia of the world around: peasants' and citizens' households, work and feasts. And at the same time he manages to show more than the eyes are able to see...
   The feasts on the naive pictures always have some auto-biographical links, but usually it looks back to the past, to the reminiscences of the childhood. The idea of the lost paradise is inevitably apparent in these paintings.



Kramskoy Mikhail Sergeevich. 1908-1990. Belgorod region
Fair in Verkhopenie. 1979
Oil on canvas. 99 õ 125
SRHFA



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