Artist Shishkin: paintings with names

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The name of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is familiar to everyone since childhood: it is his picture that is depicted on the wrapper of the Bears in the Forest candy. In addition to this outstanding work, the painter has dozens of others that hang on the walls of the best museums in the world.

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin: paintings with titles located in the Tretyakov Gallery

Pine forest. Mast forest in the Vyatka province”, “Deciduous forest”, “Spruce forest”, “Oaks. Evening”, “Pine trees illuminated by the sun”, “Oak trees”, “In the forest of Countess Mordvinova. Peterhof”, “Pond in the Old Park”, “Rye”, “Morning in a Pine Forest”, “Noon. In the outskirts of Moscow”, “A walk in the forest” is only a small but worthy collection of works by the great Russian realist artist. Such is Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. Paintings with titles - in the amount of twelve paintings - are located in the premises of the Tretyakov Gallery, which tourists from all over the world seek to visit and Muscovites - true connoisseurs of art.

Morning in the Pine Forest

In the 80-90s of the XIX century, the most famous paintings by Shishkin were painted. With the names, the artist was simple, but at the same time original: he did not choose epithets and metaphors, becausewhich the meaning of the canvas would be twofold. “Morning in a pine forest” is a classic of Russian realistic landscape. Looking at the canvas, it is difficult to understand that this is not a photograph, but a painting - Shishkin so skillfully conveyed the play of light and shadows, as well as the activities of his main characters - a she-bear with three cubs. In the dark wilderness of the forest, a random ray of sun that breaks through the heavy crowns of trees is an indicator of the time of day, in this case, morning.

The work on the painting took place in 1889. Shishkin was assisted by the artist Savitsky, who initially insisted on his authorship of the figures of bears. However, the collector Tretyakov erased his signature and ordered that the painting become a full-fledged brainchild of Ivan Shishkin. Art historians have proven that "Morning in a Pine Forest" was written from life. The painter chose for a long time an animal that could become a symbol of the Russian forest: a wild boar, an elk or a bear. However, Shishkin liked the first two least of all. In search of ideal bears and a suitable forest, he traveled all over the Vyatka province, and, having met a brown family, he completed it from memory. Four years passed from the moment of the idea to the complete completion of work on the canvas, and today “Morning in a Pine Forest” flaunts in the Tretyakov Gallery, like other paintings by the artist Shishkin (there are no problems with the names, all works are signed).

In the wild north

Looking at this most famous painting, one involuntarily recalls the stanzas from Lermontov's poem, which are a continuation of this landscape by Shishkin: “… A pine tree stands alone on a bare peak,And dozing, swaying, and with loose snow She is dressed like a robe. The work was prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Mikhail Yurievich and became a worthy illustration of a collection of his poems. Some other paintings by Ivan Shishkin (with titles) are also included in books of fiction, which proves the invaluable contribution of the painter to the development of Russian art of the 19th century.

The artist Byalynitsky-Birulya highly appreciated the painting “In the Wild North” and commented that Lermontov would be happy to see such a worthy illustration for his poem. As a poet with words, so with a brush with paint, the painter conveys the mood, in this case - thoughtful and a little sad. The motive of loneliness is obvious: at the edge of the cliff stands a pine tree, distant from the rest of the forest, whose branches are heavy from the piled snow. Ahead is a blue abyss, above is a clear but sad sky of the same color. Pure white snow, which takes up one third of the picture, shines in the rays of the sun, but it is not destined to melt soon, because the weather conditions in the wild north are very severe.

Rye

This masterpiece, known to many connoisseurs of painting since childhood, was painted in 1878. The painting “Rye” conveys the breadth of the Russian land and the soul of a Russian person: two-thirds of the canvas is occupied by a blue sky with low snow-white clouds, and the rest of the space is reserved rye field, in some places where tall pines sprout. This tree has forever become a symbol of the Russian land. Lookingto the painting "Rye", one involuntarily recalls lines from the poetry of O. Mandelstam: "And the pine tree reaches the star …". If the poet had lived while the picture was being painted, Shishkin would certainly have borrowed this stanza. Pictures with the names of this painter convey the simplicity, kindness and depth of his soul, but the concept of the work becomes clear after a long and close examination. There is nothing majestic and intriguing in the title “Rye”, as it seems at first glance, but once you look at the majestic pine trees that stand like heroes, you get the impression that these trees are a kind of protector of rye fields and the whole Russian land.

Italian Boy

Ivan Shishkin was the most enlightened artist of Russian realism, so he considered it his duty to depict on canvas not only landscapes, but also portraits, of which there are not so many in the painter's collection. However, the author's talent does not become less because of this - it is worth taking a look at the work "Italian Boy". The year the portrait was painted is unknown, but Ivan Ivanovich probably created it in the late period of his work. Similar features can be traced with a self-portrait, on which Shishkin himself worked in 1856. Paintings (with titles), most of which are landscapes, are located in the Tretyakov Gallery and other authoritative state institutions, but the fate of the "Italian Boy" remains unknown.

Deforestation

Downed trees - a frequent occurrence that depictedShishkin Ivan Ivanovich Paintings with the names "Pine Forest", "Logs. The village of Konstantinovka near Krasnoe Selo" and "Cutting the Forest" demonstrate this in the best possible way. The last work of the author is the most famous. Shishkin worked on "The Cutting of the Forest" in 1867 during a trip to Valaam. The beauty of the pine forest, majestic and defenseless, was often depicted by Ivan Ivanovich on canvases, and the moment when he demonstrates the consequences of man's invasion of virgin lands is especially tragic. What awaits the rest of the trees that stand in the background is known to Shishkin himself, but the stumps cut off at the root evoke melancholy and testify to the superiority of man over nature.