... the First World War and the civil war in Russia), the artist creates a special theme of motherhood, a series of his Madonnas: “Mother”, “Tenderness of Evil Hearts”, “1918 in Petrograd”.
The painting ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... of the war it was necessary to mention art crisis”, Efros wrote. The First World War did not become an impulse for the renewal of the Russian art with its Renaissance at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries ...