A meeting Pushkin with carriage, carrying the body of Griboyedov 1936

This is Martiros Sarian’s imagined meeting between Pushkin and the carriage carrying Griboyedov's body. Look at those mountains! They are built with fast, short, and sharp brushstrokes that really give a sense of the dry, arid landscape. You can almost feel the weight of the sun and the heaviness in the air. I imagine Sarian, squinting at the scene, trying to capture a feeling, maybe one of loss and the end of something. The brown and ochre hues give the painting an earthy feel, like the painting itself is made of the land. Notice how the figures on the carriage seem to be pushing, straining against gravity. The painting has an almost dreamlike quality, a melancholic feeling. It reminds me of other painters like Emil Nolde or even Marsden Hartley, these artists knew how to imbue a landscape with feeling, they show us how the world can be more than just what we see, that painting is really an echo chamber of ideas and feelings, bouncing off each other through time.