Biography of Savrasov landscapes

Savrasov is the largest Russian landscape painter. He brought landscape painting from the category of a secondary to proper artistic height. At the 1st mobile exhibition, his painting “Rooks flew” was seen immediately. Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov was born in the year in the family of a Moscow merchant. The love of painting manifested itself in it early - at twelve years he easily copied the romantic landscapes of famous artists with gouache.

In the year he was admitted to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He quickly became the best student of the landscape class, led by K. Good professional training was combined in his class with a serious attitude to his studies in general. In the year, Savrasov graduated from the school and received the title of artist. And in the year he presented two landscapes written in the vicinity of Oranienbaum to the Council of the Academy of Arts, for which he was awarded the title of academician.

Savrasov gains the fame and respect of brothers in the workshop. And successfully marries. We see a detailed foreground, the mossy surface of boulders and the roots of the sawn tree, the stems of herbs. In the background, Savrasov writes trees, in the distance the blue sea. A lonely female figure is turned in his direction. Everything in the picture is strictly and accurate, everything indicates calm clarity.

Savrasov increasingly makes attempts to introduce elements of the genre, genre details into the landscape, but at the same time seeks not to destroy the landscape. An example is the work "Landscape with the river and fishermen." The city of Kimra on the Volga. " But the real glory was brought to him by the modest picture "Rooks flew." She was not a direct look from nature.

She was written by the artist in the workshop for a rather long time. Savrasov depicted a rather prosaic look in the advice of the canvas: the backyards of the village, lost among the Russian expanses, the old churricop, clinging over the houses, clumsy birches, dotted with grace nests, which was melting snow. A modest, sincere, slightly sad landscape, in which sadness from endlessness and warmth of the earth was combined.

Poetry of everyday life. In general, the picture is surprisingly described in detail all the signs of awakening from winter, some endless joy from the sensation of the first warm wind, some quiet delight from the smell of melting snow. Yes, and flew by the rooks with their concerns - like a projection on a person preparing for new works on Earth. The picture immediately, from the exhibition, acquired Tretyakov for his gallery.

She was immediately highly appreciated by many artists. Two years later, Savrasov writes one more, which has become the famous picture - "Efficiency". Only the road blurry, the old winds at the roadside and the field of ripe bread will become the main images in the picture. The color of the canvas is magnificent, a picturesque tone is rich.

Savrasov again uses the old technique - it shall communicate the greater length to the first plan with the help of the road going into the distance. The transition from the Earth to the sky is performed beautifully, simply-using a strip of ripe gold gold. The artist continues to write modest landscapes - “Courtyard. Winter ”,“ Spring. Study ”,“ Alley ”. In years, Savrasov teaches a lot at the native Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

He leads the landscape class. Such artists as I. Levitan and K. Korovin, who highly revered their teacher, came out of his workshop. Unfortunately, he was addicted to guilt. In the same years, a certain crisis and a decline begins to observe in the work of Savrasov. And this was his main misfortune. My wife and daughters were forced to leave him, and in the year for the same vice, he was fired from the school.

He will live for many years, but his fate will be tragic and hopeless. And so, no less, the meaning of Savrasov in the history of Russian painting is great. Nobody before Savrasov felt or convey the sincere beauty of modest Russian nature. He made modesty with our wealth. Rooks flew in.