The tendency towards the representation of what cannot be represented realistically, such as, for example, a dream, a vision or a wish, was the theme for a series of works of the artists of Russian Avant-garde, that expressed human turmoil while confronting the Universe. Such works often reflected in different ways the thinking of theosophists or the dreamy state of symbolists. A celestial challenge of this kind is depicted in Solomon Nikritin's painting entitled “Man and Cloud” (1930), in which the cloud hovers like a lifeline above a tiny figure standing alone on an islet in the middle of nowhere. Amongst the gray, empty and lifeless environment, the colored cloud, in which small stories are revealed, expresses everything that could be a pleasant memory of life and, moreover, every visionary expectation for the upcoming world. [Solomon Nikritin, “Man and Cloud”, 1930, oil on canvas, MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection]