The industrial building 1935

Konstantin Bogaevsky painted this industrial scene with watercolor, and you can really see the fluidity of the medium, the way the colors blend and bleed into each other. It's almost like he's not just painting a scene, but also capturing a feeling, a mood. The sky here is made up of these great big brushstrokes of grey and blue. It's not just a sky, it’s like a living, breathing thing, full of movement and energy. Then you look down at the buildings, and they are all sharp angles and hard lines. But even there, he doesn't try to make it all perfect, the lines wobble and waver, and the colors shift and change. It’s as if he’s showing us that even in the most rigid structures, there's still room for life and change. It reminds me a bit of some of Turner's paintings, the way he used light and color to create a sense of drama and atmosphere. But Bogaevsky has his own unique voice, his own way of seeing the world, and I think that's what makes this piece so special.