Turkey with the family 1936

Pyotr Konchalovsky made this artwork called 'Turkey with the family' with oil paint. Look how the artist has observed and rendered the feathers of the turkeys in the barn. I can imagine him standing there, making this painting, feeling the cool air of the barn. It's got that loose, improvisational feel of someone really looking, then trying to describe a scene—almost like Cézanne, but with more narrative. I wonder what kind of conversation he was having with those other painters when he made this. And painting those turkeys, they seem to have a mind of their own, each feather and each chick a decision in itself.