Peeter Mudist

Dim, an almost monochrome visual of a typical streamlined train station bench in the 1980s and two people interacting with each other on a bench, wearing autumn-winter clothes. The work captures a moment or a state. A long trip, being on the road, comes with a certain boredom and at the same time the expectation of reaching the end. From the same year, Peeter Mudist has a painting with a similar feeling, Ootab jääminekut (Waiting for Ice Melting) (1980, Tartu Art Museum), where a person in a thick coat has thrown sideways by the water body and is just waiting.
It is like a metaphor for the anticipation of political change, which did not arrive until the late 1980s. Peeter Mudist’s style of depiction of graphics is similar to his paintings, both of which have a strong degree of generalisation in both visuals and ideas.