Pictures at the Exhibition - part 1. - Promenade

Hello!

This is my first MOC I publish here. I think it is quite good. ;)


The MOC I have built is a depiction of first movement - Promenade - of the famous suite "Pictures at the Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky. Comment by Russian critic Stasov goes as follows: In this piece Mussorgsky depicts himself "roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly in order to come close to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend." The departed friend is a Russian painter Viktor Hartmann, whose paintings inspired Mussorgsky to compose "Pictures".

The piece was originally composed for piano, but the transcription (by Ravel) for orchestra is perhaps more pictorial, so it fits more here; you can listen to the piece here:

Music link

Here are the pictures:





Note that the picture at the exhibition is Hartmann's "Paris Catacombs":



:)

Here is Mussorgsky himself:



Some random gentleman:



A close-up on the front of the tenement:



After building the whole vignette, I decided to put some electricity in it. :) So I have taken an old 9V battery box, a light brick and a wire and I illuminated the exhibition. :)



(It really looks better in real - it is hard to take a picture in which you can clearly seen that the exhibition in illuminated.)

The light is activated by pressing a big red button in the back:



I hope you liked this MOC. Comment, please. ;) Soon I will make the other 10 movements of "Pictures at the Exhibition".

Best regards, Dr Kilroy