This painting, called "Vladimirka Road" has a lot of abstract beauty. We can appreciate the values close clouds in the sky, the rough texture of the road in the foreground, thin tendrils trail, accents and small objects made by man. But to see this painting only in abstract terms is to miss its deepest resonance. Vladimirka the road was the route by which the exiles and prisoners were taken to Siberia.
The title suggests human suffering without showing it directly. The road is empty except for a distant figure pray at a shrine roadside.
Levitan said he hoped "to discover in the simplest things and the most intimate daily features, deeply moving that appeal to a melancholy atmosphere. The audience should be hit at the same depth of their souls. "
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