Sketch, sketch, composition
 

The Birth of the picture.
Is not it the appearance of images on the canvas like a miracle! By the will of the artist's ordinary piece of coarse gray cloth is transformed into a picture - vivid images of life!
How to have a picture? How many artists, so many different ways. And yet - there is something in common.
First, something prompts an artist to create paintings - vivid impression, a strong sense of giving impetus to creativity.
However, the artist did not immediately begin writing the picture. Idea first emerged, he passes in the outline of the original sketches, numerous sketches. From conception to the embodiment of the picture are hours, or even years of hard work.
How is born idea, and how it is embodied in a work of art?

«Bible sketches Alexander Ivanov».
     Biblical sketches - the final chord of creative biography of Alexander Ivanov. The wizard worked on them the last decade of his life - in late 1840-1850-ies. Biblical songs were to become a public building murals, a kind of temple of wisdom, which he represented himself as "the result of all faiths who are placed on the analysis of the last nation on Earth.

NK Roerich

Elders (first sketch).
.. Elders (second sketch
Fraying elders "(1898, oil on canvas, 155 x 280)

Sometimes he pulls on the sketch itself the role of paintings, sketches and sometimes never translated into the final plan!

Appearance of Christ to the people. Initial sketch
Appearance of Christ to the people. "Stroganoff" sketch

Baptism of Christ
The Baptism of Christ
1473-1475
Oil and tempera on panel.
180 x 152 cm (70 1 /4 x 59 1 /4 inches)
Gallery Ufitsi, Florence, Italy

Sketches of the war.

Interesting links Boyarynya Morozova "
 

Leonardo da Vinci.
 

St. Anne with Mary and baby
and John the Baptist, who was on the sketch, but not migrated into the picture. :)

Sketches, sketches Henry Semiradsky.

"Eternal Rest"
 

Very much I love this picture!

Expressive turned out sketches for the painting "Above the Eternal Peace" in 1893. At the same time a sense of loneliness and helplessness in the picture Levitan is not overwhelming. Together with its imagery of living and other experiences of the artist, giving a great sheet, compared with a sketch, more philosophical calm and courageous emotional-metaphorical sense. Dovovlno strict and very clear composition canvases. Majestic sky in the painting, which elevates the head of a chapel with a sparkle teplyaschimsya in the window, bringing into the picture along with a sense of solitude and peace of the graves "heartfelt thoughts" of the artist on "light that darkness does not embrace, the eternal thirst for warmth, faith, hope, flame which again and again, century after century, "like a candle from a candle" lit people.

The work on the painting Levitan began in the village Garusova under Vishny Volochek Udomelskogo on the shore of the lake, is probably the only one of its "composed" landscape that is not based entirely on full-scale experiences, as well as to "assembled piece by piece, assembled from different designs. Already contemporaries Levitan argued, what place he portrayed in his painting, expressing different assumptions. Exact answer is no, and now, and so does this matter? It is not a specific kind of wondering if Levitan, and the embodiment of the transience of human life and the eternal life of nature. "Eternity is, terrible eternity, which drowned generation and sink more ... What a horror, the fear! "- Such are the thoughts of the artist pursued at the time of writing, painting.

And who is the author of these sketches? Not Kiselev?

... from the Siberian cycle should be noted a small picture of the Yenisei. Twilight. "(1953). In those years, she did not receive the attention of critics, but it was this picture and is the most significant for the subsequent creation of the artist. On the bank of the river the evening perched a tiny wooden chapel. A narrow path leads to a river. Silence, peace and fabulous beauty, which he had looked and looked without end ... One reason for the success of this little work in the small penetration of the state of nature. Down to earth Twilight have peace and pacification of the earth. Landscape seems alive and on the ripple on the water - a criterion of light breeze, and the like moving reflections of moonlight, and the lights on the opposite shore. This work is a bit like painting Levitan "Eternal Rest." But at the chapel Levitan plays a pivotal role in discovering the essence of the picture, makes me think about life and death. A similar motif is seen in Stozharov differently. Chapel does not cause feelings of religious or philosophical persuasion. She says only about the beauty of ancient Russian architecture, complements the impression of beauty, which is in the landscape.
But compared with Levitan accidental. Levitanovskoe perception of the mood of nature - the ability to subtly and gently feel the modest beauty of the Russian landscape, some special humanity in the perception of it - will be a constant feature works Stozharov, though will not only possible for the artist's way of artistic interpretation.
Painting Yenisei. Twilight "was born a little differently than the rest of the period. It is almost entirely without the changes grew out of the exercise. Prior to that artist, as a rule, guided by the more common task - to transmit the character of Siberia. When Stozharau wrote Yenisei. Twilight, he thought that this motif for the film will not do: for the film needed something more complicated, significant. That was in those years, his idea of the way in art.
At the request of local artists work Stozharov come to the exhibition in Krasnoyarsk. In Moscow, they could be seen on the balance sheet, then the youth shows. Works of young artists like the oldest landscape painter VN Baksheeva, and on his recommendation Stozharau was admitted to the Union of Artists ...

Left вешь wonderful, thank you.

Yes, I seem to goof. Never mind, remove or alter their idiotic message I will not. This suggests two conclusions: first, the right was my husband, who always said that Levitan is a very good artist, and secondly, even though I, of course, and an ignoramus, but the taste of something for me, is quite good:

Now when you look at the "eternal peace" I have goose bumps on the skin ...

Sketches by an unknown artist. Were found in the former studio of folk artists: Sergei Konenkova and Nikolai Andreev (Moskva.B.Afanasevsky per.27s2)