"Red Fountains" Work from the series "Water Battles on Moscow Square".

A flat red silhouette of a standing figure with one arm extended tops a dark pedestal at the left, overlooking rows of tall jetting fountains that stretch across a paved plaza toward a low building. Reflections and jets of water fill most of the composition, flanked by a narrow strip of dark ground in the foreground.

Deep ultramarine night sky sets off the saturated red silhouette and red-tinged fountain spray, painted with heavy dripping strokes that run down the canvas like streaks of paint. The stark color contrast and vertical streaking give the scene a tense, dramatic charge far removed from documentary realism.