Reproduction of the painting in Baksheev Blue Spring. Preparation for an essay based on the painting by V. N. Baksheev “Blue Spring”

Famous landscape painter is Vasily Baksheev. The artist is in love with the Russian forest and its beauty. He loved to paint nature in different times of the year.

Simple concept

A deciduous forest without birches would be incomplete. The painting "Blue Spring" shows mid-April. The foliage has not yet blossomed, but the air around is saturated with warmth. Nature is gradually coming to life. You can literally smell last year's autumn leaves that remained on the ground. But at the same time, the aroma of young leaves and grass bursts in.

There are no features in the landscape. The author professionally conveyed the beauty of the birch grove. The forest was captured on a fine spring day. The warmth is indicated by the shadows of the trees, which appear due to the sun. Water flows along the ground. These remnants of snow melt and go into the ground. The highlight of the canvas lies in the sky. Only in spring does the horizon have such a rich blue color. This palette says that life goes on, everything around comes to life. Warmth promotes greening of trees. It’s still too early for full-fledged leaves, but the first buds have already appeared. Can be seen on the picture is easy a green haze, which indicates that the leaves will soon bloom.

Paint paintings

Vasily Baksheev gave preference to a light palette in his work. The artist practically did not use dark tones. This is what made it possible to convey the onset of spring and create a festive atmosphere. The sky is painted with soft azure, the grass is pleasantly green and against this background the trunks of birch trees turn white. All transitions are as smooth as possible, there is no contrast. The author successfully selected the colors to convey the right atmosphere.

In the background, the trees have merged into a single beige spot. In the foreground the plantings are not so dense. Behind the birch trees you can see several green spruce trees. They successfully complement Russian beauties. The concept of the canvas has no complications. The path goes deep into the forest. It creates the perspective of the painting.

It is not easy to convey emerging life with paint. But Baksheev’s painting managed to show the viewer the spring season, its joy and trepidation. The picture is simple and clear, without complex contrasts and secret meaning. It evokes calm and motivates to do good. Perhaps, between the birch trees, the artist concluded his own love of life and ageless ardor.

Baksheev expressed his attitude towards nature with great insight. He wrote: “When you wander among nature, you see movement in the field, in the forest, in the clouds, everything breathes, everything lives, and how clearly, simply this is a phenomenon of life! How much bliss and happiness it is to see in the summer how the sun floods the fields, forests, waters and sky with its rays! The smell of the earth, the aroma of the forest - what a charm it is! There is a passionate desire to convey this on canvas. Convey the manifestation of life, its thrill. This is where you have to experience a series of charms and disappointments. It is difficult, oh so difficult, to convey what you see and what you feel. But what a great pleasure an artist experiences when he manages to give a piece of real life on canvas.”

Baksheev’s words well reveal the originality of his art - the artist’s delight in the face of nature and at the same time some kind of special, careful attitude towards it. There is a lot of clarity and purity of feeling in his works. They captivate with their deeply emotional content. These features were fully manifested in one of the best paintings Baksheeva " Blue Spring"(1930).

This picture is a deeply felt story about eternally young nature. The clear blue of the sky peeking through the fragile, not yet greened branches, the delicate pinkish trunks of birch trees, the earth awakening to life, warmed by the first warm rays, are perfectly conveyed here. Artistic image this thin painting radiates peace. At the same time, there is a lot of cheerfulness and freshness in it, testifying to the bright, cheerful soul of the artist.

Baksheev does not strive to amaze the viewer with the decorative brightness of color or the unusualness and effectiveness of the compositional solution. The space calmly goes into the depths of the picture, which imparts balance and proportionality to the composition. Groups of trees in the foreground seem to not allow the viewer to go deeper into the birch grove, holding his attention, inviting him to admire the whiteness of the trunks, their whimsical, lively and quivering pattern.

The color of the picture is enhanced general mood peace, clarity and enlightenment. The combination of elusive shades of blue, pink, fawn, and golden tones gives rise to a feeling of purity and freshness of nature awakening after a long sleep. With incomparable skill, Baksheev combines the yellowness of last year’s foliage, the pinkish haze that enveloped distant forest, the ringing blue of the sky and the pure whiteness of the trees. These four primary colors, given not locally, but with countless tonal transitions, create a sonorous and at the same time subtle and harmonious colorful chord.

In the painting “Blue Spring” Baksheev appears as a faithful successor to the classical tradition of Russian realistic landscape, represented by such artists as Levitan, Savrasov or Ostroukhoye. But there is something new in this work, indicating that its author is a painter of our Soviet era. This new thing is expressed in a joyful acceptance of life, in a bright view of the environment. Baksheev's painting is full of hope. The artist, as it were, affirms with it his faith in life, in the inexhaustible life-giving forces of nature, in man. Yes, into a person! Although he is not in the picture, the feelings and moods that it expresses are full of humanity, true humanity. The birch grove, depicted by Baksheev at the most beautiful time, in the days of spring, seems to invite the viewer to wander among the trees, enjoy the fresh smells of the earth, and expose his face to the gentle rays of the sun. This closeness to man is the great advantage of Baksheev’s painting, a true poet of Russian nature.

The purpose of the lesson: prepare to write an essay.

During the classes.

Nature's clear smile

Through a dream he meets morning of the year,

The skies are blue and shining.

F. Tyutchev.

I . introduction teachers. Conversation.

Today we will talk about spring.

What are the first signs of spring in nature?

What do poets, artists, and musicians call spring? What poetic epithets do the people bestow upon her? (Morning of the year, blue spring, red spring).

Task: today we will prepare for an essay on a painting dedicated to this topic.

II . Listening to a fragment of E. Grieg’s play “Morning”.

Why did I choose this particular piece by Grieg as the musical epigraph for the lesson? (The light, gentle nature of the melody, the feeling of awakening happiness, nature gradually comes to life, is filled with vital juices).

III . Work from a painting.

Let's look at reproductions of Gerasimov's paintings "The Ice Has Gone" and Baksheev's "Blue Spring".

Their theme is common, but the pictures of spring are shown differently.

Determine what the tonality of these paintings is.

(Gerasimov’s work is early spring: there is still snow here and there, bare trees, hills, earth. The sky is cloudy, grayish in color. The general tone of the picture is gray. This picture is associated with the opening fragment of Grieg’s play).

(Baksheev’s painting depicts awakening spring. The general tone of the picture is blue: blue sky, bluish birch trunks, bluish shadows on the grass. White birch trunks are like streams against the sky. This is the blossoming of spring, but not full spring yet).

This is how M. Prishvin describes the spring of this time:

“Our spring begins with an increase in light.

January, February, early March - this is all the spring of light... Yes, happy is the one who can catch the beginning of the spring of light, grass, forest, spring of man.

When after snowy winter the spring of light will flare up, all the people near the earth are worried, everyone is faced with the question of how spring will go this year - and every year spring comes different from last year, and one spring is never exactly the same as another.”

Why does Prishvin put the spring of light, grass, forests and the spring of man on a par?

Why is no spring similar to another, is it not exactly the same as another? (a person grows, his perception of nature also changes).

We see how Gerasimov and Baksheev saw spring differently.

Which of the two paintings will we choose to work on?

Painting by Vasily Nikolaevich Baksheev. This is what the artist himself says about the melody of nature that aroused in him the idea of ​​the painting “Blue Spring”. Pay attention to the details the artist notices:

"Spring. There is no snow anywhere, the ground is almost dry. Everything is filled with warm air. It smells like rotten leaves, and here and there green grass grows through; On the sides of the country road along which I was walking, willow bushes were blooming, emitting a sweet, honey smell... Birds singing could be heard all around.

The openwork tops of birch trees, painted pinkish-yellow, with their buds in full bloom, are fancifully drawn against the blue background of the sky; The bluish-purple shadows from the trees stretch and intertwine with each other across the damp ground. Everything is full warm light spring sun. There is so much joy of life in this awakening of nature!”

And here’s what the artist’s friend, who wrote a book about him, writes about the painting:

“The most important thing is the blue background of the sky. The whole picture is permeated with his alluring charm. It is like a symphonic poem and creates a special sound for the landscape.

You look at this picture, and before you rises the blue spring of not only this particular corner of nature, but the spring of the entire earth, all its vast expanses. And the eye involuntarily, of itself, embraces the entire immeasurable sea of ​​the sky, and all this rotten earth with spring shadows, and all the lace of birch trees stretching upward. The first feeling from “Blue Spring” is that the birches in the picture seem to be growing before your eyes, rushing upward.

Baksheev’s “Blue Spring” is perceived as the embodiment of a huge human dream.

What details in their statements did you notice? (Tone, slender birch trees, space)

IV . Preparing for an essay. Essay based on Baksheev’s painting “Blue Spring”. Title: “Hello, morning of the year,” “On the paths of the spring forest.”

Theme: "Blue Spring". the main idea: Spring is beautiful, spring is the morning of the year. It fills the heart with joy and anticipation of happiness.

Objects of description: spring, Birch Grove, thin white trunks, sky blue, light, transparent shadows, air, melody, lace of shadows, the joy of awakening.

Let's draw up an essay plan and select working materials.

Plan.

Blue spring has come after a long wait for warmth and light.

Let's walk along the still wet paths of the birch grove.

The whole picture is permeated with the charm of the sky.

Fragrant, Fresh air chest overflowing.

It seems that the singing of birds and the movement of air merge into a symphony of spring.

The joy of awakening is felt together with nature.

Working materials.

Thin white trunks; directed upward, towards the light, growing before our eyes, a lace of shadows on the grass.

Creates the main sound of the landscape, subtle transitions from dark blue, purple to light turquoise, almost white.

The smell of rotten leaves, the smell of honey, the air flows, washing the thin tree trunks.

Intoxicating music, a charming melody overwhelms the soul.

The awakening of a new force, I want to live.

V . Performing work with musical accompaniment.

VI . Checking what you have written.

V.N. Baksheev

V.N. Baksheev (1862-1958) lived long life hard worker. V.N. Baksheev became an artist in the late 80s of the 19th century. Vasily Nikolaevich Baksheev connected his interests and aspirations with the activities

V.N. Baksheev “Peonies” 1957

His fellow students and artistic activity there were such painters as, I.I. S.V. Ivanov. Already at the beginning creative path V.N. Baksheev worked on landscapes, but it was his work that brought him fame.

V.N. Baksheev " Everyday prose» 1892-1893

These paintings are distinguished by the psychological accuracy of the characters, relationships, and fidelity to the setting. The artist reveals dramatic content“everyday life” of the bourgeois environment, sympathetically talks about the hard lot of workers.

V.N. Baksheev “Road in the Forest” 1925

After the revolution V.N. Baksheev, with his democracy and realistic style of painting, naturally became active participant Artists' Associations revolutionary Russia, created a number of paintings depicting new life.

V.N. Baksheev “Collective farmer” 1955

Gradually, the main genre in the work of V.N. Baksheev became, in which he achieved remarkable success, continuing the tradition coming from I. Levitan, M. Nesterov.

V.N. Baksheev “On the terrace” 1892

The most famous works are by V.N. Baksheeva: “A Girl Feeding Pigeons” (1887), “Everyday Prose” (1892-1893), “The First of May in Petrograd in 1917” (1927), “Road in the Forest” (1925). ), " Last snow"(1936).

V.N. Baksheev “Blue Spring” 1930

"Blue Spring" is one of the best landscapes V.N. Baksheeva. He writes his favorite time of year - early spring. Many artists, including Levitan, addressed this topic, but Baksheev managed to reveal the beauty of the spring landscape in his own way.

The artist described his impressions that inspired him to create this painting as impressions of the earth, freed from snow and almost dry. The fragrant air fills everything; it smells like rotten leaves, and here and there the first grass emerges; along the road where the artist was walking, willows are blooming, emitting a sweet smell of honey. Birdsong can be heard. Against the blue background of the sky, delicate, yellowish-pink birch branches with unblown buds emerge; The bluish-purple shadows of the trees stretch, intertwining with each other, across the wet ground. The whole place is filled with warm spring light. The artist wrote a sketch and began to paint the painting “Blue Spring” based on it.

In this painting, one of the main painting tasks for the artist was to convey bright sunlight. We feel how the sun dazzles with its brilliance, flares and flickers. The light permeates everything, some kind of blurriness appears in the outlines of trunks, shadows - all forms. Baksheev is a master of plein air. His color scheme is extremely accurate and surprisingly complex. The shades of color are difficult to define in words (pinkish, purple, soft green, yellowish, silver-gray), but bright turquoise triumphs over everything spring sky. “Blue Spring” by V.N. Baksheeva is truly the “spring of light.”

Vasily Baksheev is one of those Russian landscape painters who quite often depicted beautiful forests and impenetrable thickets on their canvases, because they were the decoration of Russian lands. On his canvases the viewer can observe forest landscapes depicted at different times of the year. Of course, the spring sketch attracts the most attention, when the entire canvas is filled with thin and fragile birch trees.

The painting “Blue Spring” is precisely the canvas on which the landscape painter captured all the beauties of the coming spring. The forest has not yet fully awakened from hibernation. The trees are naked, the young leaves have not yet been covered with branches and dressed in green outfits. Looking at the picture, the viewer seems to be transported into that thicket of the forest, feeling the humid, damp air, which reminds us of the smell of mushrooms.

The painting “Blue Spring” is very calm. There are no exciting events on it that could excite the author's attention. Before us is an ordinary, warm spring day. Forest landscape flooded sunlight, warm rays pierce through the branches of the trees and descend to the very ground. Forest paths are flooded with water. They appeared in the forest after heavy melting of snow.

However, this is not what attracts the viewer's attention. Much more we turn our gaze to the amazingly clear sky, filled with a radiant, blue hue. Looking at the landscape, we understand that winter is gone. And she won't be back soon.

The painting “Blue Spring” is filled with light, soft, warm shades. V. Baksheev does not resort to help dark shades, because he doesn’t see his work as gloomy and gloomy. He associates spring with new life, a new flow of strength and energy, a light that awakened nature after hibernation.