After good luck

Vasily Vereshchagin

• Original Title: После удачи
• Date: 1868
• Style: Realism, Orientalism
• Series: Turkestan series

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин, October 26, 1842 – April 13, 1904), was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognised abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited.

The "1812" series on Napoleon's Russian campaign, on which Vereshchagin also wrote a book, seems to have been inspired by Tolstoi's War and Peace, and was painted in 1893 in Moscow, where the artist eventually settled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin

Vereshchagin was twice in Central Asia, which inspired him to write the Turkestan series of paintings. The artist in the East was struck and shocked by everything: from the beauty of human hearts and the amazing things created by the hands of people to the cruelty and indifference of the surrounding world.

In many paintings of Vereshchagin, the elegance of architecture and, as a contrast to this, beggars on the characters are seen.

Art lovers of Turkestan accepted ambiguously. Habitual Vereshchaginsky landscapes were replaced by bloody military cruelty, which abounded in new plot compositions. Heads, cut from the shoulders, taken as a trophy of a won victory, have a horrific effect on each observer.

“After good luck” is a vivid example of the military Turkestan theme of Vereshchagin, which depicts the soulless thugs of Asia, assessing the head of a white man, separated from the bloody clogged body.

https://en.opisanie-kartin.com/description-of-the-painting-by-basil-vereshchagin-after-good-luck/

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