The calendar spring has already come into its own. More and more often, walking along the street, we feel the warmth of the sun's rays, we notice more and more puddles in the yards and know for sure that the roads will soon turn into turbulent spring rivers. Spring gives each of us its own impressions: while some are afraid to get their feet wet and complain about mud and slush, others change their fur coats for light raincoats and put on colored rubber boots.
What can I say, we all feel spring in our own way. Let's turn our eyes to the classics - immortal paintings, try to see this extraordinary time of the year through the eyes famous artists. The great poets who sang in verse are so different spring days, will help us to penetrate the intentions of the authors paintings!..
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842 - 1910)
Undoubtedly, it is worth starting with an outstanding innovator in the field of painting and a talented teacher A.I. Kuindzhi. He is rightly called the "master of light". Colorful, impressive, lively canvases dedicated to Russian nature have become a real event in art. The poems of M. Lermontov very subtly and accurately convey the mood of his paintings:
When the broken ice in the spring
An excited river goes
When among the fields in places
The bare earth turns black
And the darkness falls in clouds
To the semi-young fields...
M. Lermontov
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1830)
Early spring,1890-1895
Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897)
Another outstanding painter, master of the Russian landscape - A.K. Savrasov. His canvases very subtly and soulfully convey simplicity, touching sadness and deep essence native nature. But the best thing about the artist was his, no less famous, student - I. Levitan: "With Savrasov, lyricism appeared in landscape painting and boundless love for his native land."
Songs of the larks again
They rang in the sky.
"Dear guest, great!" -
They say spring.
The sun is already warmer,
The skies are getting brighter...
Everything will be green soon
Steppes, groves and forests…
A. Pleshcheev 
Rooks have arrived, 1871 
Thaw, 1874 
Spring day, 1873 
Early Spring, 1868, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860 - 1900)
All of you know the commandment: "Do not make yourself an idol." Alas, I cannot resist and note that since childhood, the work of I.I. Levitan did not give me rest. This outstanding painter studied with no less famous artists and teachers: A.K. Savrasova, V.G. Perov and V.D. Polenov. The depth of spaces, the movement of air, the fullness and "sound" of the river - all this is physically felt with just one look at his paintings. The poem of the classic of Russian poetry F. Tyutchev perfectly conveys the mood of the spring canvases of I. Levitan:
Snow is still whitening in the fields,
And the waters are already rustling in the spring -
They run and wake up the sleepy shore,
They run, and shine, and say ...
They say all over the place:
"Spring is coming, spring is coming,
We are messengers of young spring,
She sent us ahead!
F. Tyutchev
(fragment of the poem " spring waters", 1829)
March, 1895 
Spring. big water,1897
Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (1875 - 1944)
Another talented student of V.D. Polenova, V.A. Serova, S.A. Korovina, I.I. Levitan, who rightfully received the title of master - S.Yu. Zhukovsky. With large strokes, attention to detail, color nuances, contrasts of light and shadow, he perfectly conveys the feeling of spring, coming changes and the awakening of nature.
Wave after wave
Into the immeasurable ocean...
Winter turned to spring
And the hurricane howls less often;
Ruthless time does not wait,
It is in a hurry for the term;
Fields and cornfields of the rich burden,
The whitening snow is gone...
ON THE. Nekrasov
spring water 
Spring 
Spring 
Early Spring (Arbor in the Park), 1910 
Spring bubbling stream, 1913 
Spring evening, 1904 
Spring, 1913 
Spring
Ilya Semenovich Ostroukhov (1858 - 1929)
Another phenomenon of Russian painting is the canvases of I.S. Ostroukhov. This extraordinarily gifted man, excellent education and erudition, who played the piano from childhood, became interested in painting by the age of twenty, which did not prevent him from reaching extraordinary heights in a new field. In the canvases of I.S. Ostroukhov combines a soft impressionistic style of writing and poetics lyrical landscape, close to the canvases of I.I. Levitan. Very accurately, the mood of his works dedicated to spring is conveyed by A.T. Tvardovsky:
The snows will darken blue
Along country roads
And the waters will go down
In the still transparent forest ...
A.T. Tvardovsky
(fragment of the poem "The snows will darken blue")
In early spring 
Early spring
Vitold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birulya (1872 - 1957)
An outstanding painter, student of S.A. Korovina, V.D. Polenova, I.M. Pryanishnikov, I. Levitan. Under the influence of artists, he became interested in landscape and reached extraordinary heights. Subtly feeling Russian nature, its mood and some naivety, he conveyed these feelings to the viewer through his paintings.
Beyond the river the meadows are green,
It breathes with light freshness of water;
More cheerfully rang through the groves
Songs of birds in different ways...
I. Bunin
(fragment of a poem, 1893) 
Spring, 1899
Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon (1875 - 1958)
K.F. Yuon is rightfully considered an academician of the lyrical landscape. Paintings Everyday life, captured on his canvases, show the life and mood Russian people. In his characteristic manner, combining the technique of impressionism and the elaboration of fine details, the artist created bright and memorable paintings. Canvases by K.F. Yuon on the theme of spring, to enhance their expressiveness, we will "illustrate" with a poem by A. Fet:
Another fragrant bliss of spring
We did not have time to descend,
Still ravines are full of snow,
Still dawn the cart rumbles
On a frozen path...
A. Fet
(fragment of a poem)
Sunny day. Spring, 1876 
March sun,1915
Isaac Ilyich Levitan 
Spring in Italy, 1890 
Spring. Last snow, 1895 
Spring. White lilac. 1890s
Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov 
Rural View, 1867, Tretyakov Gallery
Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky 
Spring (The river opened), 1903 
Old manor. May. 
In May
Window to the forest 
Window to the forest
Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon 
May morning. Nightingale place. Ligachevo, 1915 
Spring in the Trinity Lavra, 1911
Wave after wave
Into the immeasurable ocean...
Winter turned to spring
And the hurricane howls less often;
Ruthless time does not wait,
It is in a hurry for the term;
Fields and cornfields of the rich burden,
The whitening snow is gone...
ON THE. Nekrasov
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1839)
Ivan Avgustovich Velts 
Spring in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, 1896
Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin 
Last snow 
Early spring
Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov 
May flowers, 1894 
Spring
Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar 
Last snow 
March snow, 1904 
May evening, 1905
Songs of the larks again
They rang in the sky.
"Dear guest, great!" -
They say spring.
The sun is already warmer,
The skies are getting brighter...
Everything will be green soon
Steppes, groves and forests…
A. Pleshcheev
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1861)
Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky 
It blew in the spring, 1910
Turzhansky Leonard Viktorovich (1875-1945) 
Last snow 
Spring in the Western Territory, 1910 
Spring. Moscow yard
Before spring there are days like this:
Meadow rests under dense snow,
The trees rustle merrily and dry,
And the warm wind is gentle and resilient.
And the body marvels at its lightness,
And you don't recognize your home
And the song that was tired before,
Like new, eat with excitement.
A. Akhmatova
Venetsianov Alexey Gavrilovich (1780-1847) 
On the arable land. Spring
Endogurov Ivan Ivanovich 
The beginning of spring
Bryullov Pavel Alexandrovich 
Spring, 1875
Vasilkovsky Sergey Ivanovich 
Spring
Bashkirtseva Maria Konstantinovna (1860-1884) 
Spring
Prose is written about spring, poems are dedicated to spring. And, of course, pictures are dedicated to spring. We bring to your attention a small selection of paintings by Russian artists on the theme of spring.
Poems and spring
“Before spring, there are days like this:
Meadow rests under dense snow,
The trees rustle merrily and dry,
And the warm wind is gentle and resilient.
And the body marvels at its lightness,
And you don't recognize your home
And the song that was tired before,
Like new, eat with excitement.
Anna Akhmatova
Bergholz Richard Alexandrovich
Spring awakening
1911, oil on canvas, 80 x 160 cm, Omsk regional museum fine arts them. M.A. Vrubel
“The day was sunny and windy, the kind of day when you can go around the corner of the house, hide from the wind, press your back against the wall slightly warmed by the sun and feel with all your heart the joy of the arrival of spring and warmth ... Stand, squint and smile.”
Evgeny Grishkovets, "Rivers"
Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich
forest in spring
1884, x. m. 142 x 105 cm, Serpukhov Museum of History and Art
As you know, Ivan Shishkin often turned in his works to the theme of the life of the Russian forest, Russian meadows and fields, he improved in the transfer of the state of nature, the expression of images, the purity of the palette. This is how the painting "Forest in Spring" (1884) is born, which combines both majesty and warm notes.
Early spring. Thaw
1880s, x. m., 68x54 cm., Art Gallery them. B.M. Kustodiev. Astrakhan
In his work, Savrasov paid much attention to the theme of the seasons, and especially loved spring. In his paintings, the artist was able to see beauty in the most ordinary and prosaic landscape.
Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov
The Rooks Have Arrived
1871, oil on canvas, 48.5x62 cm, Tretyakov Gallery
The painting "The Rooks Have Arrived" is the most famous work Savrasov. The plot for the picture was taken by the artist in the usual village of Molvitino. Immediately after the show, the painting was bought by P. Tretyakov for his collection. And over time, the picture, the very name of which already conceals the joyful arrival of spring, has become a model of simple beauty in Russian landscape painting: the whole landscape is filled with warm spring air, like joyfully chirping birds and all nature are looking forward to the imminent onset of sunny and warm days.
Isaac Ilyich Levitan
Spring. big water
1897, oil on canvas, 64.2x57.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery
Another artist who loves spring - Isaac Levitan, decided to depict in one of his paintings his favorite time during his most powerful manifestation. The picture opens before us a flood that captured part of the coastal forest and several village buildings. Since the artist tried to convey the Russian spring as accurately as possible, without embellishing anything, the palette of the picture is unusually modest, but truthful and realistic. Yes, and nature does not need decorations.
Kuindzhi A.I.
Early spring. 1890-1895
I. Levitan "Spring. Big water".
Isaac Levitan, the great Russian landscape painter, called his painting "Big Water". She depicts the spring flood. Water - a flooded river - occupies most canvases. It is blue, cold, clean, smooth, like a mirror surface. It reflects a clear blue sky, light clouds and still bare trees - a grove flooded by the river. Thin trees look defenseless and touching. Among them - almost obligatory for the Russian landscape trees - birches. Backlit by the sun, they appear pink.
I. Levitan "March"
Nature basks in the warm rays of the sun. On the left, we see a forest waiting for spring. The picture here is very different. Coniferous greens cast dark shadows. It is obvious that winter cold reigns in the forest, the colors are gloomy and dark. The sun's March rays have not yet had time to warm the gloomy blue-green firs, but I really want the sun to illuminate their frowning crowns with a bright golden light! Soon it will happen, because it's March in the yard!
F. A. Vasilyeva "Thaw "
The picture is made in gray-brown tones. She radiates coldness and sadness. Despite the shades, we can understand that this is really the beginning of spring. The snow is melting, as if taking cold and cold with it. A road blurred by wheels, like the beginning of a new path. Birds flock to the road in search of food after a severe winter.
V. Kudrevich "Morning of spring"
The birch grove sparkles with reflections of morning dew. Young foliage, breathing a sense of spring freshness and cleanliness, is permeated with soft sunlight. And all around is a fragrant carpet of green grass and flowers, among which one can guess pale blue snowdrops and bright yellow coltsfoot inflorescences.
The sky is made in shades of gray, and the trees in the background are shrouded in a light haze. Because of this, the vegetation in the foreground looks even more voluminous and saturated, shimmers and plays with bright colors.
A. G. Venetsianov "On arable land. Spring"
We see in the picture a plowed field in early spring. Greenery is breaking through somewhere along the edges, it is clearly visible on the front, untouched edge of the field. At the right edge, several thin trees turn green near a strange beveled stump. A very elegant woman in a pink sundress and a beautiful kokoshnik easily leads two strong horses along the plowed land, which pull the harrow behind them. woman walking on the arable land barefoot, walking very lightly, as if dancing, on her face is a smile.
Spring is a time of renewal and new beginnings. Nature is waking up from hibernation, snowdrifts are melting, spring rain is heard from the roofs outside the window, buds are blooming on the trees.
I want to capture all this beauty in my memory, so that later I can remember it with rapture and admiration. A wonderful time - beautiful ones are obtained literally at every time.
Desktop pictures are now very popular, where you can see the beauty of spring in the photo. Or, for example, upload a high-quality picture to your phone. You can also use the services of an artist and hang drawings and paintings on the theme of spring at home.
High-quality photos about spring on your desktop
Beautiful photos of spring for your desktop can be downloaded from our website. Now there are many photographers who shoot landscapes and the nature around us. Beautiful photos on the theme of spring can be downloaded for free and set as wallpaper on your desktop spring.
Thanks to high resolution And large sizes, such an image will look great on a computer or tablet screen.
Pictures about spring often include small details, such as drops, small buds, snowdrops peeking out from under the snow, the first small berries. All this tenderness and beauty can be conveyed by a photograph on the desktop.
Beautiful images of spring on your phone
You can admire the springtime not only on the screen of your computer or tablet, but also on your phone. Suitable for this various images even a small resolution. Even small pictures of spring on your phone will look spectacular and advantageous.There can be both urban landscapes with houses, from the roofs of which icicles with a drop hang down, and paintings of wide open fields and forests with trees shedding a snow cover from their branches.
Also a great solution would be to opt for images small parts, for example, such as small rivers formed from the melting of snow covers, peeping buds or the first leaf of a birch that appeared.
Spring, pictures on the phone: they make you wake up and get out of hibernation, start acting, fulfill your plans, make dreams come true.
Drawn beautiful spring in pictures
Many artists sing of this time and depict it in their paintings. Start new age, the renewal of the earth inspires them to create something new, gentle and bright.A variety of landscapes gives a wide scope for ideas and fantasies. Artists who were born in places far from noisy cities love to depict in their paintings how spring comes in the countryside.
These rivers, melting glaciers on them, symbolize the thaw, the release of accumulated negativity and the beginning of a new life in a new direction. The houses, decorated with melting icicles, look like they are from old good fairy tales that our grandmothers told us before going to bed.
Spring in the forest is no less beautiful! These mighty trees, waking up from their sleep and shedding snow from their branches, are like people who throw off the burden of the old and are ready for everything new.
It is pleasant to hang such pictures on the wall at home and admire them, enjoying the nature of the world around us.
Beautiful spring, pictures and photos of which will always cheer you up and push you to new beginnings and incarnations of old ideas, is worth capturing it and enjoying these views in rare moments of sadness and sadness, raising your spirits.
Dear guys and dear parents, Hello! Spring is in the yard, nature is gradually awakening from sleep. As Fyodor Tyutchev noted,
Nature has not woken up yet
But through thinning sleep
She heard spring
And she smiled involuntarily.
Spring was loved not only by poets. Russian landscape painters often depicted spring motifs, they liked to draw on canvas the first rays of the sun and the melting March waters, the first young grass and the blue sky.
Today our material is on the topic of art, because we will consider the paintings of Russian artists about spring, look for the beauty of mother nature in them and talk about it with the brush of an artist.
Lesson plan:
What did the artists see in the Russian spring?
On the canvases of famous Russian artists, early spring is often found. This is always the hidden tenderness of nature awakened after a winter sleep, when in a melting March snow sunlight is reflected. Landscape painters such as Alexei Savrasov, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Yuon, Sergei Vinogradov, Arkhip Kuindzhi - true masters artistic brush, which managed to convey a joyful spring mood.
You do not need to be somewhere in the middle of a field or forest, just look at the pictures and feel the fresh wind or spicy air, hear or murmur of a stream. Each canvas painted by Russian artists helps to find harmony with nature in anticipation of the new life that spring brings. Even the titles of their works already speak of the arrival of spring.
And now I propose general description works of famous Russian landscape painters go to specific canvases.
Savrasov rooks
The most famous, probably, of all the pictures about spring, the name of which "Rooks have arrived" is heard by every second. We, as schoolchildren, also wrote based on this work by a Russian artist. Why is she so eye-catching?
So, the main theme is the beginning of spring, which the landscape painter managed to convey with extraordinary accuracy. The gray-brown range of colors tells us that spring is just waking up from its winter sleep. A simple and seemingly unpretentious landscape begins with melting dirty snow and bare birch trees in the foreground.
But you just have to look! On the right, snowdrifts have long turned into thawed patches, indicating that it will be warm a little more, thereby filling the picturesque air with spring freshness. The sky also says that winter is giving up its rights. Blue is visible through the clouds.
If you look carefully, you will certainly notice a temple visible through the birch trees. Remarkably, the sketches were painted by the author from nature in the Kostroma province, and the Church of the Resurrection today stands in the same place.
Savrasov completed the painting he had begun already in Moscow, the finished canvas appeared in 1871. The presentation of the work turned the whole world of painting of those times upside down. Called "a hymn to Russian nature", it immediately attracted the attention of connoisseurs of painting. The well-known art lover Tretyakov immediately acquired it for the collection, which is stored in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Well, of course, the main harbingers are the arriving rooks, which stuck around the bare branches of birch trees. There is no longer any doubt: spring is on the doorstep!
This is interesting! Savrasov’s painting impressed art lovers so much that replicas were ordered to the author already in 1872 - this is the name of the copies that the artist painted, changing somewhere the size, somewhere the brightness of the colors, and in some he added details. In 1997, a canvas with rooks and a portrait of the artist settled on a Sberbank commemorative coin of 2 rubles.
Rural spring Levitan
The baton is taken over by Isaac Levitan, a well-known lover of landscapes. Known for his painting called "Spring has come", which is one of his most lyrical works. The canvas was painted in 1896 while visiting friends in the Moscow region.
The plot of the picture is quite simple - the artist tried to convey to us one of the warm days of early spring in countryside. Its main part is the earth, only freed from snow. The first grass has already broken through in some places, but the trees are not ready to come to life after a winter sleep and stand undressed in greenery. The village huts frowned gloomily in the corners, waiting for the spring warmth, between which a gusty wind walks.
In the background, behind the fence, endless fields and forests are spread in a turquoise haze. The sky is still cold until warmed by the sun. The author collected all this in one landscape, trying to show that winter is about to give way, even though spring is just beginning to step on its heels.
The uniqueness of this work by Levitan lies in the fact that he used different techniques - drawing with gouache, filling, shading with a pencil and pen, as well as whitewash.
This is interesting! For 20 years of his work, having started working with Savrasov, the artist bypassed his teacher and created for Russian art as much as no landscape painter has managed to do.
Vinogradov's spring motives
Painting famous artist Sergei Vinogradov "Spring" is a real holiday of awakening nature. Surprisingly bright and festive, it breathes sunlight all over, and the first spring warmth is everywhere - in the bright blue sky, almost melted snow and tree trunks stretching upwards.
It is already noticeable that fresh greenery is breaking through last year's withered grass. Although there are still areas of land covered with snow, their days are numbered - the bright sun is about to melt the winter cold. Even an old house already wept a drop of icicles, having dried the roof under the sun's rays, and put his side under the spring warmth. This work of the artist evokes joyful feelings in anticipation of changes in nature.
This is interesting! famous landscape painter Sergei Vinogradov is considered the heir of Levitan. In addition to nature, in 1914-1917 he painted postcards on a military theme.
Yuonovskoe "March Sun"
Most notable work Konstantin Yuon called "March Sun", written in 1915, carries a spring mood. Its blue tones, in which the sky is dressed, and the snow that has not yet melted, give a feeling of lightness and serenity, as if assuring that everything is already behind - the frosts have been experienced, a warm spring is ahead.
The artist tried to convey a sense of joy to the first days of spring on an ordinary weekday. Against the backdrop of houses, guys are riding horses along a village street, and it seems that we hear the crunch of snow under our hooves. A dog and a foal flirting with each other also rejoice in spring. The roofs and tops of the trees are illuminated by March rays, and light clouds are slowly floating across the blue sky.
The picture is permeated with frosty March air, but very soon streams will run along these rural streets, and birds will chirp joyfully on the trees.
This is interesting! In addition to painting, Yuon was fond of artistic graphics and designed theatrical performances.
Spring near Kuindzhi
Arkhip Kuindzhi is considered a master of lighting effects. He skillfully created his landscapes by combining light and shadow. His cheerful and lyrical painting "Early Spring" was painted in 1895. In the center of the master's work is a river, still frozen in anticipation of the spring flood. The first water appears through the cracks, and this means that the heat is getting closer and closer.
Spring is impatiently awaited by the blue sky, bare branches of trees, and grass breaking through. The whole composition of Kuindzhi's painting suggests that it will no longer be possible to stop it. Bright colors, which the author used, give saturation and create a feeling of joy, and the light flooding the whole picture allows you to feel the arrival of the spring period. Airiness gives the transition of color shades from the sky to the water.
A lonely birch on the river bank, slightly leaning towards the water, stretches its branches into the sky. A little more, and it will be covered with fresh leaves. ABOUT last breath winters speak and thawed patches in the foreground.
This is interesting! Kuindzhi learned to draw while being a retoucher in a photo studio. He bequeathed his entire fortune of 453,300 rubles accumulated from the sale of paintings to the Society of Artists. The painting "Early Spring" is an exposition of the Ukrainian Museum of Art in Kharkov.
There are many other paintings, no less famous, that describe this. beautiful time of the year. If you are interested, you can independently study the landscapes of other famous Russian artists and try to write mini-essays on them.
And that's all for today.
With wishes of spring mood, ShkolaLa!
