The industrial landscape 1935

Konstantin Bogaevsky made "The Industrial Landscape" using what looks like thin washes of watercolor paint. The painting is all about atmosphere, with a hazy quality to it. I like the way the colors are muted. It's almost monochromatic, but there are these subtle shifts in tone that create a sense of depth. You can almost feel the humidity and the weight of the air. It's interesting how he uses these soft, washy strokes to depict something so solid and imposing as an industrial landscape. See that little boat in the foreground? Bogaevsky sketched it in with just a few lines. It seems a bit wonky, out of scale, like a child's drawing. It reminds me a little of some of the early 20th-century American painters, like Charles Burchfield, who were also interested in capturing the mood of industrial settings. But Bogaevsky has a more romantic sensibility. There's a sense of melancholy in this painting. Like he's mourning something that's being lost.