Newlyweds

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Frida Kahlo

Among the artists who came to Catalonia in search of refuge during the First World War, are the French woman Marie Laurencin, and the Russians Sonia Terk-Delaunay and Olga Sacharoff. The latter found a place to settle here and live until her death, fully integrating into the cultural and artistic life of Barcelona. Let's not forget that the arrival of these new European currents in Catalonia came largely thanks to the arrival of these artists who contributed with their presence and production to the change of the national artistic scene. The work of this artist has traditionally been interpreted from the paradigm of the avant-garde that evolves, with the passing of time, to more conservative and classicist forms. But if we look closely, we can see that her work shows more continuities than differences, while at the same time displaying a series of ironic criticisms of bourgeoisie life with a timid but clear gender perspective. In this work we see how the iconography of the Newlyweds is called into question when it is the man who is holding the bouquet of flowers, and on the other hand the dog (man's best friend and a symbol of loyalty) is next to the woman. Sacharoff presents, throughout her work, a vision of the world with feminine sensibility where nature, animals, children and women always seem to appeal, happier, outside the patriarchal normative society. 

Newlyweds, Olga Sacharoff, 1929.