The composition 1907 - was once known as part, as a fragment, of a monumental composition titled by octav băncilă under the name pe valea oltului. Today, the painting is in the gallery of the national art museum of romania. The composition on the olt valley, which the painter wanted to create, was commented on in the românia muncitoare newspaper. [1] thus, the artist wanted to show how he fired a cannon against a group of peasants from the olt valley. He wanted to depict ". A mass of peasants, surrounded in a valley, and bombarded by artillery from behind the hills. " the monumental composition was never completed, it remained only at the project stage. In the painting from the national gallery, due to the drama that emerges from the composition and due to the dynamic and at the same time monumental treatment of the subject, the impression it leaves on the viewer is particularly strong. The work was exhibited in 1907 in iasi, in the window of the moldova bookstore. In september 1908, it was exhibited at the romanian athenaeum in bucharest. The work participated in the romanian art exhibition in moscow between 1949 and 1950, together with two more paintings, the worker and the peticarul. The soviet critic a. Tikhomirov had the following considerations:. The piercing expressiveness of băncilă's faces reaches an original expressionism in his most pathetic canvas 1907. On the field strewn with dead and wounded, under the murderous fire, a peasant runs towards us. His fists are clenched. The face expresses horror and anger. The white shirt stands out like a tragic stain against the dark background of the sky and the plain. [2]. Date: 1907.
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