Meeting. Stage design for the Ostrovsky's play 'The easy money' 1917

Boris Kustodiev dreamed up this stage design for Ostrovsky's play, 'The Easy Money,’ with oil on canvas. You know, when I look at this, I think of a theater set, which it is, but it's also like a painting of a dream. The colours feel like folk tales, so saturated and somehow joyful, like a celebration. I can imagine Kustodiev building up the layers, maybe starting with thin washes of colour, then adding thicker strokes to define the shapes and forms. There are all those different greens in the trees. They remind me of Vuillard, Bonnard, those guys, especially the way they created this world using light and colour. The texture looks smooth and kinda velvety. There's that feeling of being right there, in the middle of the play.