The subtitle is ideally derived from an illuminating passage from Igor' Savickij's Autobiography: "These places are characterized by subtle coloring, where color - in an infinite variety of combinations and harmonies - forces you to enrich your perception and teaches the eye to be particularly sensitive to these highly refined and at the same time intense and picturesque variations that not only make the places particularly attractive, but also turn them into an original school that develops the perception of color and light and gives special vividness to the chromatic vision."

In the works, created in the 1920s and 1930s by Volkov, Tansykbaev, Karachan, Nikolaev (Usto Mumin), Elena Korovaj, Nadežda Kašina and many others, regardless of whether they are paintings on canvas or paper or whether they were created in Samarkand, Bukhara or Tashkent, one enters an enchanted world, full of color, light, vivid observations and symbolic connotations, which derive from Western, Russian and Eastern traditions: a world that existed long before artists depicted it in their signs. One can somehow perceive an affinity with the works of artists such as Paul Gauguin, harmonizing tradition and the road to innovation.