View Finder No.41
Butcher Shop: a painting and a poem
Welcome back to View Finder an additional offering for paid subscribers of Journeys Beyond Borders where every other Monday I feature a photo or painting, from somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and explain why it matters.
Aleksei Morgunov (1884–1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and his oil painting Butcher Shop (1911) is currently on display inside the Savitsky Museum in western Uzbekistan. I was reminded of it last week when I was finishing a newsletter titled Dairy Country, which features Ural Tansykbayev’s Milk Bazaar, also on show at the same museum.
Morgunov’s Butcher Shop pairs nicely with a poem I love of the same name, written by a poet who was born in Belgrade shortly after Morgunov died.
Read on to find out more…
