Jüri Marran 1937–2021 Karlova Motive. 1978

The tradition of depicting slums is quite long in Estonian art, but by the 1970s, interest in them had waned. Young artists were instead fascinated by the modern city and its technological freshness, but some artists of a more romantic nature found solace in the romance of the slums. For Jüri Marran, Karlova was a homely place, he does not approach this place like a manor lord's peasant, but like a friend. Therefore, he has not particularly dramatized the motif, but instead tried to highlight what everyone can see, but which we often don't notice: the abundance of nuances, brownish tones, the fall of light and the creation of shadows.