Shishkin Biography Pictures
Shishkin’s paintings, print on Shishkin’s canvas - biography, paintings by the artist of the Russian forest, Ivan Shishkin, captured not only the appearance of national nature, but also the character of the people. In his paintings, the “spirit and image of the great, powerful space”, called Russia, sounds. How truly great artists are, in whom the inescapable supply of spiritual forces and vital observations is poured into the form of extremely clear, simple, accessible to the widest spectator.
The whole philosophy of their paintings is a hymn in living nature, the beauty of nature. Their work resembles a leisurely song, epic and silly. The best canvases of the artists become milestones in the development of the art of the country in which they lived and wrote. Compatriots are proud of their paintings as national treasures, such a great generalized sense of citizenship and the feeling of the Motherland in these realistic works.
In the second half of the 19th century, the Russian national landscape is unconditionally approved. That is why Shishkin’s work marks the important stage in the development of this genre. Among the outstanding artists, Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich represents his art exceptional, which previous eras did not know in the field of landscape painting. Like many Russian artists, by nature he had a huge talent of a nugget.
Nemirovich-Danchenko spoke like this about his work: "The poet of nature, namely the poet, who thinks it with images, understanding her beauty where a simple mortal will pass indifferently." Shishkin’s work is imbued with the pathos of life and the affirmation of the beauty and strength of the nature of his native country. The future artist was born in Elabuga on Kama - a deaf Russian province.
The inhabitants of this town carefully kept the indigenous foundations of the patriarchal structure. His father was a merchant, a cultural person. Father was the first to whom Vanya found support in his aspirations for art. In the year, young Shishkin enters the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Then four years of study at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Already during this period, Shishkin introduced an innovation in the landscape genre - a sketchy approach to the object of image, the field development of nature. The future artist admired meadows and forests, herbs and flowers, stumps and stones, shrubs and mosses, in which the idea of living life, the eternal growth of nature was manifested. Shishkina was attracted by the thirst for an artistic study of nature.
He carefully examined, sensed, studied every stem, a tree trunk, trembling foliage on branches, rising herbs and mosses.
For this picture, Shishkin received a large gold medal and the right to improve his work abroad after graduating from the Academy. For two years, the artist was gaining knowledge in Switzerland, in Germany. From where he returned a high professional, he became a professor at the head of the landscape class and a member of the Motravik partnership. Here he blocked his view of creativity and determined the theme of future works.
Life in a foreign land exacerbated his sense of homeland. For the first time after abroad, Shishkin turned to a pronounced Russian plot. He admired in nature, in which the manifestation of the eternal life of nature was seen. For him, everything was new: plain expanse, lighting, rains and thunderstorms. Shishkin did not ennoble nature. Nature is nobility itself. It is she who can ennoble a person, both directly and by reproducing it in art.
This is a song to the Earth, a symphony on the existence of the most significant earthly benefit. Rye is bread, a symbol of life and a specific act of human hands. Pines give the picture a majestic sound. And rye fills the whole canvas with golden tows and only in the middle is extended to skip the embracing path with peasants crazy through it. And rye, and pine trees, and the red -hot sky in planning clouds - the meaning is read by Russian life.
In this picture, Shishkin’s landscape painting was manifested. Special, quiet, fine day turned out to be a day. Major, spaciously spread out the field of harsh bread, and among this ocean of the golden rye, like a watchman of Russian wealth, the giants-frauds stood up, rushing their proud peaks to the sky itself. Incredible silence reigns in the landscape. It seems to be heard how every blade of blade is breathing.
The flat, unhurried breathing of the field reaches hearing. Swallows fly over the ground. In the haze of the horizon itself, the bulk of cumulus clouds crowd. Be a thunderstorm. The road is drowned in rye, along which two travelers are wandered, and birds are circulating above them high, high in blue zenith. In this picture, everything lives: and powerful sweeping pines, lit by the golden rays of the morning sun; and moist cover of the earth; and juicy foliage of shrubs; And the breath of lilac fog.
Everything, everything breathes, grows, hesitates, stretches to the sun. The forest in the depths is not a background, but a depth of space dissolved in the fog. Nature here is considered not in the form of a beautiful plot, but as an infinite life of the earthly world. Beautiful Russian fairy tale, animals personify good natural forces in the picture. The children's joy of the discovery of the world permeates this work, reflecting the characteristic features of a national character.Simple at first glance, plots are distinguished by the depth of emotional experience.
In his works, a dense Russia rises. The world of forest is fulfilled with forebodings, mysterious darkness creates anxiety. The impressive oaks are admirable. The artist animates the trees. Oak is a symbol that speaks of the relics of the life -giving forces of nature. Oak is a phenomenon of beautiful and eternal life. On Shishkin’s canvases, they become quite understandable living beings.
Shishkin fans spoke with enthusiasm for his ability to write different breeds of trees. He really wrote not a tree, but his breed. In contrast to the mighty oaks, Shishkin writes ate, coniferous forests. Shishkin pines became the classic image of the Russian forest. Ivan Ivanovich reproduces the truly beautiful in nature. Shishkin gave the forest landscape an unprecedented scope, inhaled him purely Russian epic breadth.
The artist worked a lot and worked right in the forest for a long time. His paintings were created on the basis of dozens of studies from nature and sketches. Literally thousands of preparatory studies and pencil sketches left us this tireless natural researcher. This thorough study of nature was reflected in all scenery of Shishkin with an accurate detailing of all components.
According to the landscapes, the master can travel, consider blades, berries, spikelets in the field, trees, streams. In the X, the image of the Motherland occupied many artists. They strove for the image of typical features of their native land. National self-awareness could not imply a single understanding of the appearance of the Russian land. This appearance was a diverse. Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin embodied the greatness and vastness of Russian forest expanses in his work.
These are not only taiga forests, this is the Russian land in its characteristic expression. The forest revealed to the artist the secrets of not only nature, but also human being, with a confirmation of which the following picture serves. And the tree personifies the character of a person. The properties of people are transferred to the trees. The picture poetizes the features of popular consciousness and nature.
This is the last work of the painter. At the end of his life, he returned to the images of his youth. The image of a magnificent forest - a powerful creation of nature - excited it throughout his life. Shishkin depicts sunlight, breaking through the branches of trees. He strove for the image of the forest to guess the breed of trees, carefully prescribing each sheet.
It seems that each oak sheet is marked with its special brilliance. In everything, its own expressiveness, its charm, its own beauty sounds. Looking at the picture, a feeling of titanic power of nature is created, where every tree is a symbol of the titanic struggle. The dramatic action turns out as if on stage. The fallen spruce trees create a complex picture of movement. The verticals intersect with oblique lines.
Mollen uprooted stumps, sharp branches, broken branches create a complex composition marked with contrasts of light and shadow. The rear background is gloomy. This gloom rises above the forest chaos, reigning on a highlighted gang with a marshy stream. The trunks are voluminous, elastic, sculpturally expressive.