Bathers in the Sun (1930) by Konstantin Somov Poster_for_classroom and crowned with a playful

and crowned with a playful heart-topped headpiece

Gold transforms app iconography into layered social commentary - where lust

This oil-style canvas print is full of tension and beauty

The emphasis on the light hitting the black leather

In Memories of Jamaica

Bathers in the Sun (1930) by Konstantin Somov Poster_for_classroom and crowned with a playfulKonstantin Somovs Bathers in the Sun (1930) turns a woodland swim into something lush, languid and quietly charged. Made in watercolour and bodycolour on paper, it shows nude bathers resting beneath trees, with one woman meeting the viewers gaze from the foreground. The sitters are not securely identified; the drama is in the looking. Somov, a Mir Iskusstva artist, often used beauty, performance and erotic atmosphere as a private language. Here,