Textures are crucial to Ladyzhensky’s compositions, and the people themselves often become textural elements. In Recess, the crowd of children in dark clothes becomes a textured mass breaking up the red, blue, and white shapes of the interior space. In Flea Market, the textured mass of people begins to form its own shapes:

a diamond of whitish flesh takes shape above a person holding up a pair of mended pants. The real textures of the roads and other surfaces are treated with care:
in both Hot Maize and Early Morning, the stonework on the street is differentiated from the stonework of the sidewalk. The color of the light in each painting is treated with great specificity; although this is the same type of stonework represented in each, Early Morning has a yellowish glow, evoking early morning light.

Do these paintings evoke a particular temperature, smell, or sound? Which paintings are noisy, and which are quiet?