Field with Figures 

Grégoire Michonze painted "Field with Figures" with oils, but little else is known. We can observe a puzzling scene with a number of figures, but it is unclear what is happening. The figures in the painting are arranged in a pastoral landscape, perhaps a scene of leisure, but there are darker elements in the presence of the dead. The location could be France, given that Michonze migrated there from Russia. It seems to be a comment on the social structures of his time, given the state of unrest after the second World War. Is this perhaps a comment on the psychological implications of such a conflict? To interpret a painting with so little information, we can always look into the artist himself, study the painting closely and place it within its historical context.