Return from the Field

2014.
oil/glass
300 x 400 mm
signature: down in the left corner: M. Đukin / 2014.

Image bursting with rich bright colors. The composition is directed diagonally and "rises" from the lower left corner to the top of the right corner, aided by a colorful accommodation houses along a pathway with figures returning from work. Figures are not individualized, their faces are generalized to symbols, completely universal. Dressed in brightly colored clothing in line with the rest of the scene. On the left there are farm animals - hens. The second plan looms abstracted landscape in green-blue tones. Vertical axis are achieved with figures, houses and blooming trees.

Martin Djukin was born in 1955 at Molve. He started painting in 1971. Martin, with his brother Stjepan, one of the main representatives of the younger generation of the circle of Hlebine. Martin develops the picture of the landscape of Podravina wide and panoramic which shows a typical action and a genre scene with a group of men. The author usually describes past events and past situations, so the scenes are distinctly nostalgic, as an attempt of reconstruction of a happy times, quiet and almost Arcadian. He lives and works in Molve.