Isaac Levitan THG
 

«Levitan. The 150-th birthday »

And this is so.
Interest in the exhibition by the media big, it can be seen in the second photo. And the exhibition itself is very big, a lot of paintings from various museums in the world and from private collections.
I went without much reverence, and left enlightened. I say almost without irony. What Levitan brilliant landscape is understandable, but it patriotic Russian nature and the fact that the paint using traditional images of landscapes, can be so hard to express my love for Russia - a matter of respect and sometimes admiration. No kidding.
Perhaps the effect of adding just the amount of work, where a huge variety of types, plans, attitude makes a fresh look at our country and lives. Pathetic? Well, well, no kidding.
By organizing the exhibition later, and now it is especially liked.
Next to large, finished works are sketches that lets dive into the creative process, to understand how the artist worked, see how the mood changes.
1.2. Press Conference
3. sketch for the painting "Above the Eternal Peace" 1894
4. The very picture of "Above the Eternal Peace," 1894. Pay attention to the sky, the composition of water and the shore. Painting a powerful, something tragic, to watch from 15-20 meters, as a window into the world.
5.6. Sketches for the painting "The Whirlpool"
7. The very picture of "The Deep Waters" is also seen as a changed mood of the artist.
8.9. Sketch for the painting "Lake"
10. The very picture of "The Lake" 1900.

Second that it was interesting to learn walking in the exhibition, this is a changed /evolved very creative artist. From classical realism to an almost symbolism. As more and more the game begins with light, color and planes. And the result in terms of our own, modern perception is very interesting. But it is precisely during these experiments it's great getting any of the critics.
1.2. Exhibition
3. Autumn, a mill Flatwater 1888
4. The Old Yard. Ples 1888
5. Evening shadows 1891-1894
6. Wooded shore. Twilight 1892
7. Moonlit night. Village
8. Moonlit night. Great way to 1898
9. Golden Autumn 1895
10. Cottage 1899.

Classic Levitan, when you get pleasure from the quality of painting.
1. Vecher.Zolotoy Polesie 1889
2. After the rain. Ples 1889
3. Fresh breeze. Volga 1895
4. Birch Grove 1889
5. Fine arts 1890
6. Mont Blanc mountain range in 1897
7. The residue of the past, dusk. Finland 1897
8. Italy 1890
9. In the vicinity of Savvino Storozhevsky monastery Wednesday. 1880
10. Flood 1885

A large section of graphics. Very interesting. These are the first two little pictures, because the lighting was quite dark. But the flowers were both alive.
1.Na Lake bed in 1893
2. Autumn Landscape with Church 1895
3. Rain storm in 1899
4. Sunny Day 1898
5. In the Park 1895
Separately want to stay in the picture who last touched the painter before his death.
6. Sketch of the painting hay 1900
7. Hay 1900
Painting is both tragic, black sky portends trouble, and optimistic, bright sun in the foreground. The annotation is written that the painting is not finished, but I have not formed such an impression, just seems that way by design - a complete departure from realism. What is particularly symbolic in the year of death.

Well, of course humor.
At this time there was no sultry blonde in the red. Alas. It would seem that paparazzi were not destiny. But no, like a hawk pounced on a boy with his grandmother. Grandma is very emotionally told his grandson something next to each picture and photographers only had time to snap closures. Grandma unlike blondes really did not understand that to take pictures and kept looking in disbelief at their antics.
 1.2. Photos
3.4. Many people have liked the paintings were photographed. That girl in the painting "Lake" painting bright joyful, a girl?

5.6. Auntie enjoyed painting "In the pool," and the picture is something mystical, there is even a legend in the place of the drowned. But look what hitrenkoe face with his aunt, was not afraid.

Levitan is one of few of our "Wanderers, for whom it was characterized by constant development and a new perception of painting, and landscape in the first chastnosti.Ot pretty simple, but very" nastroenchiskih "papers and studies, to large paintings and Philosophy generalizations, it later (at the end of life), understanding the discoveries of Impressionism expressive ("I now know how it would be necessary to write .."). And think how much is left unwritten in this great painter-composer.

Your opinion about the latest work, "hay", it is not finished?

Konstantin, but it's a good question! Sketch to work nedodelan.A clearly in the work itself all the basic relations resheny.Fakticheski already at this stage, the artist has expressed himself and continued registration would go only to the viewer accustomed to more thorough finishing peyzazha.Interesno Was this Levitan very hard to say ... but what we see think fits in a more modern for its time the concept of post-impressionism, with the doctrine that the artist could be quite familiar.

Many thanks for this report. Indeed, the pattern Levitan cause a special feeling. And the admiration and something more. In all, it is even seen by the public ...

Constantine, a huge thank you for the report and photos from the show.
PSOchen sad. Was now in the open air in Pafnutevskom monastery near Borovsk. The artists are grouped around a "residential" homes, stately, majestic, with a noble cool silver color of wood. He was beautiful from any point (just outside). Center of the composition of our trips often become a monastery, or those cute little houses, the fate of which is sealed. Remembering pictures of masters and, of course, Levitan (The house, which we have written will soon be demolished within refugees live, the ceiling collapsed, inhumane conditions). And I realized that we are trying to capture something elusive forever bezvozvratno.S than we stay in ten years? What motivations will inspire us? Scary shapeless Cottage, eternal nature? Sorry for the lost ..

Konstantin, if hdozhnik put the signature-then finished.
And it is worth.
Under the unfinished work of Levitan signature would not put, for me, definitely, is finished.
(IMHO)

Peter, too, right!

And I went. People-darkness. The exhibition is wonderful, fantastic! Many Levitan, what I did not know, a very light, bold, Impressionist.
Sometimes the birch in the foreground, a few long tracks of white, but how exactly! Referred hay just baffle, yes, post-impressionism. Quite a lot of works on cardboard, oil on paper, all in excellent condition, no Crazing (this is addressed to those who believe oil on canvas only acceptable). Cardboard he was not even grounded-visible in the lumen of the paint layer. Maybe the prokleival glue?
How unfortunate that so early ... went on later work shows that he was on the rise, the best work has not written any talantische ... simply breathtaking!

Yes, show an amazing creativity to reach, and what pastels! Picturesque language Levitan seen as priterpeval izmeneniya.Ot Savrasovsko-Barbizon through Shishkina to impressionism, stopped a step away from it (Bastien-Lepage?). Palette brightened, but separate strokes of pure color virtually vidno.Peyzazh to Lake Como is the closest to the expression of impressionizmu.I everywhere "levitanovsky" system of motive, its sound.

I love Levitan, so I try to look at it not as a textbook classics, but as the number of living artists, with whom one can engage in dialogue. I do not really like the pastel colors that give a little cabin, great to work with unnecessary bombast worse, I think his size-nebolshoy.I yet I would say thanks to the Tretyakov Gallery, which holds its own brand and the best works (and by design, too) belong to her . What else?
 And I took from the Russian Museum "Rus", and they would give "The Whirlpool" or "Above the Eternal Peace" and be at rest.

Thanks Konstantin!
Again revised the report.
Yeah!
Went to brush Kalenkov break.
:) "There's no denying!