A museum piece starts with a unique subject. To find a unique subject one requires an intellectual maturity that defines the artist. 

The intellect brings out the mature strokes and the ripe choose of colors. It is no wonder that work of  artists of  different nationalities stand in contrast with one another. Notice for example very raw and vivid colors used in American portraitures versus ripe gray purplish shade that one expects in Russian portraitures.  

 

 

 

 

An old fisherman standing on his fishing net early morning on the Caspian shore as the morning sun turns the water, the man and his lattice  into a single glowing jewel.