This landscape is not attributed to the most outstanding works of the artist, such as “Birch Grove”, “Over Eternal Peace”, “Vladimirka”, “After the Rain. Ples. " For some reason, it was believed that in Russia there are no places worthy of being captured on the canvas. The nature is simple, discreet, not at all like the bright landscapes of Italy or France. This was not Levitan. He did not look for special beauties. He wrote that he was close to the heart and soul of a man who grew up in this environment, who loves lanes in forests and copses, more than once walking along log bridges thrown over a stream. So, Levitan, "Forest Lake". Description of the picture will not convey all the charm of the outcome of the summer. To feel the peace coming from her, you need to visit the Rostov Museum of Fine Arts, or at least see a good reproduction.
Levitan landscape
Early quiet autumn. Calm unknown lake in some wilderness.
Not a breeze. The smooth, unclouded expanse of water, like a mirror, reflects the pale autumn sky and trees standing in an impenetrable thicket along its banks. In the distance, ocher birch is golden. The invisible sun shines on the right, and lilac-bluish shadows fall on the trees. On the left they brighten. The jagged gold of the forest and the greenery of pine trunks flickering under the sunset light are reflected in the water. So Levitan sees "Forest Lake" and writes. The description of the painting
is a pale copy of what the artist conveys.
The sun plays on pine trunks, and they sparkle festively. The complete peace and tranquility that the landscape causes the painter, is transmitted to the viewer. The incredible master is Levitan. Forest Lake (the description of the picture is good, but it’s better to see it all the same) goes to an incredible distance, and where it ends and with what, maybe a stream, maybe a river, is unknown.
Peace of mind, undisturbed expanse - that's what the whole forest landscape breathes. But the most important thing is that he lives his life, which will remain with the viewer in the corner of his soul when he moves away from the picture. If this happens, it means that the poet and psychologist looked into the soul and left a clean noble mark in it. Surely with sadness about the passing summer Levitan wrote “Forest Lake”.
Description of the picture: in the foreground, the panoramic composition is complicated. A high, crooked cliff appears in contrast with the smooth lines of the entire image. And from the height of the cliff, the artist, and after him the viewer, admires the beauty of the huge lake that suddenly opened in front of him, going into the distance. Isaac Levitan depicts a forest lake as part of an unknown mysterious country that opened up to a weary traveler. Light magically emanates from the center of the composition, illuminating the gentle tones of the forest, cheerfully running across the trunks of pines.
Levitan is not only a brilliant draftsman, but also a colorist from God. But this could only become apparent thanks to immense hard work, when he, while still studying, mastered all shades of green, wrote out every leaflet, studying its structure, every piece of bark, which is visible in his sketches. For example, "The trunk of an old tree."
These sketches speak of the tireless work of such a mature artist as I.I. Levitan. "Forest Lake", a description of which was given, speaks of vigilance, attention and firmness of the hand of a young artist.
Artist's life
He was born in 1860 in the Coven province in Lithuania. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Moscow, where he lives very poorly. But a child at 13 years old is given to study painting. Mother dies, then father. Jewish boy studied at the Moscow School. Not everyone understood how a Jew, poor and impoverished, sometimes without a piece of bread and a roof over his head, was enthusiastically studying the Russian landscape. What can he understand in it? However, it is Levitan who will discover the whole world the charm of Russian nature. When a young talent graduates from college, he is not even awarded a silver medal, but only allowed to work as a teacher of calligraphy.
After school
But this did not bend him or break him. A great influence was played by friendship with the Chekhov family, where he was both kindly and participated in practical jokes and jokes, which were great master Anton Pavlovich. His personal life did not work out, despite the undeniable beauty in his youth and in his mature years.
The only close soul was Chekhov's sister, Maria, with whom he corresponded. It is to her that he believes in letters his fear of death. Levitan caught a cold on sketches on the Volga and fell ill with consumption. He had to leave for treatment in the Crimea, but by 1900 he returned to Moscow. There he died and was buried in a small Jewish cemetery. Later his grave was moved.
MV Nesterov, who loved and appreciated him, even during the years of World War II, being a very old and weak man, visited Levitan’s grave with flowers.
How to write an essay on the painting of Levitan
First of all, you need to find out when II was born and worked. Levitan, where he studied and with whom of our artists were friends, to find out which of his works are considered the most outstanding, for example, “Birch Grove”. What other works did the artist write? Where did Levitan find the forest lake? Description of the painting for children must necessarily contain their own impressions of the contemplation of the landscape. Use epithets and definitions, conveying in words the palette of this landscape. Try to understand what kind of mood the artist had in this deserted and deserted corner. Why did he like him. Tune in to this mood of the painter and try to express your impressions with the most accurate words. Perhaps it will be something like this. I.I. Levitan was born in Lithuania, but lived his life in Russia, related to her, felt her soul and managed to do what not a single Russian artist had succeeded before.
Levitan painting
The painting "Forest Lake" depicts a quiet, deserted corner of autumn nature. In the distance, birches and aspens gilded with a dense wall, closer to the viewer pine trunks gleamed with solar flare . The quiet expanse of a magnificent lake mirrors a cloudless sky. The viewer is in the shade, on a cliff, from where he admires the huge lake that suddenly opened in front of him. No sound anywhere. There is a ringing silence, which you will not hear anywhere else. These are reserved, infinitely beautiful places with iridescent bluish shades. Such a corner of the Fatherland shows the artist to his viewers.