A.Semushin applies his trans-surrealistic method to practically all the genres of painting. This artwork combines historical plot, marine landscape and figurative composition. The plot is full of irony which is created by grotesque form distortion and local colours. Puffed up with his importance and pride for his reaching India by sea Columbus salutes the astonished “Indians”. Nice tadpoles-like aborigines of radical natural colour do not know yet that since this minute they are “discovered” and live in America. Usually A.Semushin’s plots are more of episode flare-up kind rather than of detailed narrative type. This work is an exception from the rule. The main painting complexity here is to organize bright colour spots forming personages and objects in order to reveal the plot semantics. The correlation of figures reflecting the personages hierarchy contributes to the same task. This is one of few work where the artist doesn’t forsake the perspective – due to conventional techniques of spatial construction he reminds us of three-dimensions of space perceived by us through sensations.
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