The artist Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov stood at the origins of the new, Soviet pictorial art. His brush belongs to many official, "ceremonial" and informal, "everyday" portraits of the leaders of the first persons of the state, including Lenin and Stalin, representatives of the Bolshevik, communist intelligentsia. He also captured the most important events in the life of the country - the launch of the metro station, the round date of the celebration of the October Revolution. A multiple winner of the Stalin Prize, awarded with medals and orders, including the Order of Lenin, Honored Artist, First President of the Academy of Arts, Alexander Mikhailovich, at the same time, did not consider these works to be the main ones in his work. His most expensive brainchild was a small canvas, very simple in plot, which, however, reflected the true soul of a great Artist, Master.
"Wet Terrace"
This is Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain", the second name of which is "Wet Terrace". It is known to every schoolchild for which generation it has been included in the school curriculum as a manual for teaching writing essays. Reproductions from the canvas are placed in Russian language textbooks for grades 6-7 (various editions). The very same painting by Gerasimov "After the Rain" is in one of the exhibition halls of the Tretyakov Gallery. It was painted in oil on canvas, the size of the work is small - 78 by 85 cm. Spectators invariably crowd in front of the canvas, carefully peer into the details, study, admire, absorb.
Best Creation
In Soviet painting, especially the first half of the 20th century, there are very few works of this type, like Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain". Subtle lyricism, surprisingly accurate rendering of the poetically pure, fresh atmosphere of summer nature washed by rain, juicy color, special energy - all this makes the artist's work very special. No wonder the master of her and only her considered his best creation. Time has confirmed the prioritization. Of course, the bright talent of the author is clearly demonstrated in his other works. But it was Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain" that survived ideological storms and disputes and turned out to be out of time, out of the politicization of art, proving its real aesthetic value.
Creating a masterpiece
Let's fast forward to 1935. What is happening at this time in the USSR? Firstly, the 7th Congress of Soviets, significant for important state decisions. The congress of collective farm shock workers, at which the working peasantry reports to the government about their loyalty to the chosen course. The movement of multi-machine weavers begins. The first line of the Moscow metro is being launched. Being in the thick of events, Gerasimov responds to them with bright, original creativity. By 1935, he was promoted to the forefront of the best masters of socialist painting. However, the artist more and more clearly feels a certain spiritual breakdown, fatigue and a desire to abandon everything and go home, to the distant provincial town of Kozlov, in the Tambov region, to rest.
It was there that Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain" was painted. The history of the creation of the masterpiece has come down to us in the memoirs of his sister. The artist was delighted with the garden completely transformed after a heavy downpour, a wet terrace sparkling like a mirror with the extraordinary freshness and fragrance of the air, the most unusual atmosphere reigning in nature. In feverish impatience, taking up the palette, Alexander Mikhailovich in one breath, in just 3 hours, painted a canvas that entered the golden fund of Russian and Soviet landscape painting.
Starting to analyze the work (element of the lesson)
As already mentioned, Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain" is analyzed in the school course. An essay on it helps to develop the skills of coherent written speech, the creative abilities of students, contributes to the formation of aesthetic taste, a subtle perception of nature. Let's join the wonderful canvas. In what year Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain" was painted, we already know - in 1935, in the summer. In the foreground we see a corner of a wooden terrace. It is dazzlingly shiny, as if carefully polished and varnished. The heaviest summer rain has just ended. Nature has not yet had time to come to its senses, all alarmed and disheveled, and the last drops are still no, no, yes, and break down with a resounding thud on the wooden floorboards. Dark brown, with standing puddles, they reflect every object like a mirror. The breaking sun leaves its warm golden reflections on the floor.
Foreground
What is unusual about Gerasimov's painting "After the Rain"? The description of the canvas is difficult to do in parts, fragments. It has an amazing effect on the viewer as a whole. Every detail of Gerasimov's work is significant and harmonious. Here is the railing and the bench. Closer to the inside of the veranda, they are darker, since this part of the terrace is less lit. But where the rare sun still falls, there are more and more golden highlights, and the color of the tree itself is warm, yellow-brown shades.
To the left of the viewer on the terrace is a table on elegant carved legs. The figured tabletop, dark in itself, seems completely black because the wood is wet. Like everything around, it sparkles like a mirror, reflecting both an overturned glass, and a jug with a bouquet, and the sky that is getting brighter after a thunderstorm. Why did the artist need this piece of furniture? It organically fits into the environment, without it the terrace would be empty, giving the impression of an uninhabited, uncomfortable. The table brings into the picture a hint of a friendly family, hospitable tea parties, a joyful, cordial atmosphere. A glass glass, turned upside down by a whirlwind and miraculously not falling, speaks of how strong the wind and downpour were. Disheveled flowers in a bouquet, scattered petals hint at the same. White, red and pink roses look especially touching and defenseless. But we can imagine how sweet and gentle they smell now, washed by the rain. This jug and roses in it look unusually poetic. 
The background of the painting
And outside the terrace, the garden is noisy and rampant. Raindrops roll down from wet foliage in large beads. It is clean, dark green, bright, fresh, the kind that comes only after a refreshing downpour. Looking at the picture, you begin to very clearly feel the heady smell of wet greenery and sun-warmed earth, flowers from the garden and something else very dear, close, dear, for which we love nature. Behind the trees you can see the roof of the barn, in the gaps of the branches - the sky is whitening, brightening after a thunderstorm. Lightness, enlightenment, the joy of being, we feel, admiring the wonderful work of Gerasimov. And we learn to be attentive to nature, to love it, to notice its amazing beauty.
Preparation for an essay based on the painting by A.M. Gerasimova "After the rain" The presentation was made by the teacher of the Russian language and literature of MBOU secondary school No. 17 a. Psebe Pashchenko S.N.
Objectives: to introduce students to the work of Russian painting of the early 20th century; collect the materials necessary for writing an essay; contribute to the enrichment of students' speech, expanding their horizons by familiarizing themselves with the works of painting
Let's repeat Painting genres Portrait Still life landscape Types of texts Narration Description Reasoning
Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov
Family portrait of A.M. Gerasimov was born into a merchant family in Kozlov (now Michurinsk), studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Portrait painter, landscape painter, master of thematic painting. People's Artist of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Doctor of Arts.
By 1935, having painted many portraits of V. I. Lenin, I. V. Stalin and other Soviet leaders, A. M. Gerasimov, tired of the struggle for official recognition and success, went to rest in his native and beloved city of Kozlov. This is where the "Wet Terrace" was created.
The history of the creation of the painting "After the rain" I made a sketch in two hours. It happened like this: I was painting a group portrait of my family on the terrace. The sun was hot, bright spots scattered across the greenery. And suddenly the clouds rolled in. A gusty wind, tearing rose petals and scattering them on the table, overturned a glass of water. It began to rain, and my family hid in the house. And I was seized with an unexpected delight. From fresh greenery and sparkling streams of water that flooded the table with a bouquet of roses, bench and floorboards. Fortunately, I found myself under the arms of a canvas subframe, and I feverishly began to write. There was no need to rearrange or add anything - everything that was before my eyes was so beautiful.
Conversation about the picture What is shown in the picture? What genre would you classify A.M. Gerasimov? From what details of the picture do we guess that it just rained? Did the artist manage to convey the feeling of freshness after the rain? The painting has two titles. Why do you think? Which title more accurately conveys the author's intent? What type of text will your essay be classified as? A. M. Gerasimova "After the rain (Wet terrace)"
Describe what you see. A round table, a bouquet of flowers in a jug, carved table legs, an overturned glass, the shine of wet surfaces, shadows from objects.
Vocabulary work. Summer rain; everything is filled with moisture; everything shines; fresh, shower-washed foliage; in the foreground and background; flames flicker in the glassy haze of fine roses; wet shine, dim bright sunlight; I remember the lines from the poem about the creation of A.Ya. Yashin; def about the thrown glass and kan; through the dense green foliage you can see the roof of the barn; you feel the freshness of the air and the silence; te rr asa, perila.
A. Yashin After the rain, the rain walked along the garden path. Drops on the branches hang like earrings. If you touch a birch, it will wake up And laugh. Laugh to tears. The rain rustled across the wide meadow. Even the flowers were surprised at each other: In the cups of leaves, on each blade of grass, A little light, a piece of silver.
Syntax. Punctuation. Write down the sentences, put punctuation marks: Lines from a poem by A.Ya. Yashin are recalled After the rain Drops on the branches hang like earrings In the cups of leaves on each blade of grass there is a little piece of silver. Everything glitters in the foreground, the railing, the bench, the terrace floor, and the table top. Roses are blazing in a glass decanter, raindrops are also hanging on them. There is a wet shine and dim sunlight all around, and you can clearly feel the freshness of the air and the silence of that moment that comes immediately after the rain.
Check yourself I remember the lines from A.Ya. Yashin's poem "After the Rain": "Drops on the branches hang like earrings", "In the cups of leaves, on each blade of grass there is a little light, a piece of silver". Everything glitters in the foreground: the railing, the bench, the terrace floor and the table top. Roses are blazing in a glass decanter, raindrops are also hanging on them. There is a damp sheen and dim sunlight all around, and you can clearly feel the freshness of the air and the silence of that moment that comes immediately after the rain.
An excerpt from L. N. Tolstoy's story "Adolescence" “But now the rain is getting smaller; the cloud begins to separate into wavy clouds, brightens in the place where the sun should be, and through the grayish-white edges of the cloud one can barely see a patch of clear azure. A minute later, a timid ray of the sun is already shining in the puddles of the road. I experience an inexpressibly gratifying sense of hope in life. My soul smiles just like the refreshed, cheerful nature. I lean out of the chaise and greedily drink the fragrant air into myself. Everything is wet and shiny in the sun, like varnished. I can’t sit in the britzka, I run to the bushes, tear the wet branches of the blossoming bird cherry, beat myself in the face with them and revel in their wonderful smell.
Let's choose synonyms to avoid repetitions. Painting - canvas, landscape Artist - painter, landscape painter Drawn - depicted, showed
Color and mood Color in a picture is of great importance. The artist creates an image with the help of color, conveys his attitude to the hero, evokes a certain mood. We see soft, calm colors: light green and dark green, pinkish-yellow, burgundy tones. These combinations create a summer mood. The silver tint on all items gives rise to a feeling of coolness. The artist loves his garden, his native nature very much. He likes to depict changes in nature.
Approximate plan 1. Before us is the picture of A. M. Gerasimov "After the rain." 2. Wet terrace. 3. Garden after the rain. 4. The color of the picture. 5. The mood that the picture creates.
“After the Rain” is one of the best landscapes by the artist Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov. Like others, this picture is distinguished by simplicity, clarity and festivity. A heavy summer rain has just passed. He left his marks on everything. Bushes and trees were soaked with moisture. Fresh, rain-washed foliage glistens on wet branches. “Drops on the branches hang like earrings,” wrote the poet A. Ya. Yashin. And I also recall the lines from his poem “After the Rain”: “In the cups of leaves, on each blade of grass, a little light, a piece of silver”. Everything glitters: both the roof of the barn, in the distance, in the background, and what is in the foreground: the railing, the bench, the floor on the terrace, the table top. Everything reminds of the raging elements. There is still a lot of water on all these items. Roses are blazing in a glass decanter, raindrops are also hanging on them. And next to it lies an overturned glass: it can be seen that the rain was heavy. There is a wet sheen all around, dim sunlight breaking through the parting clouds, and you can clearly feel the freshness of the air and the silence of the moment that came immediately after the rain.
Homework Write a draft essay
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK
Literature: Russian language. 6th grade. Proc. For general education institutions. At 2 o'clock / (M.T. Baranov, T.A. Ladyzhenskaya, L.T. Trostentsova and others; scientific editor N.M. Shansky) - M .: Education, 20013. Khodyakova L.A. The use of painting in teaching the Russian language. - M.: Enlightenment. 1983 Internet resources: Russian educational portal. Collection: MHK. Gerasimov A.M. - http://artclassic.edu.ru/catalog.asp?ob_no=%2016527 template - http://whynotra.moy.su/_nw/14/15329.jpg Paintings by A.M. Gerasimov: http://www .amgerasimov.michmuzei.ru/paints/ger00avtoportret.jpg http://artclassic.edu.ru/attach.asp?a_no=6487 http://artclassic.edu.ru/attach.asp?a_no=6457 http:// www.amgerasimov.michmuzei.ru/paints/ger04tropinka.jpg http://www.tstu.ru/win/kultur/kul_img/mus_img/ger_img/terrasa.jpg House Museum - http://www.tstu.ru/ win/kultur/kul_img/mus_img/ger_img/terr.jpg After the rain - http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_pic.php/p//view.pic
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Synopsis of the Russian language lesson in grade 6.
Teacher - Pashchenko Svetlana Nikolaevna, MBOU secondary school No. 17 a. Psebe
Subject : “Preparation for an essay based on the painting by A. M. Gerasimov “After the Rain (Wet Terrace)”.
Goals
educational: get acquainted with a short biography of the artist, teach to “read” a picture, collect working materials for an essay;
developing : develop oral and written coherent speech, creativity and emotional sphere, interest in painting, expand vocabulary, form teamwork skills in a group;
educational : to cultivate a sense of love for nature, native land.
Lesson type : speech development lesson
Technology : lesson-workshop
Forms of organization of cognitive activity:individual, frontal, group (children work in a group)
Equipment : presentation; reproduction of the painting “After the Rain”, portrait of the artist, easel, brushes, paints, audio recording “Thunderstorm. Calm. Joyful birdsong”, handout - an excerpt from the story of L. N. Tolstoy “Adolescence”, a textbook, explanatory and spelling dictionaries.
During the classes.
1. Introductory speech of the teacher.
Hello guys. You are in the artist's studio. What do you see here? (Easel, paints, sketches, canvases…) With their help, the artist creates a picture, a real miracle that lives and pleases us for centuries. Today we will also try ourselves in the role of artists, but not ordinary ones, but artists whose instrument will be the word.
2. Appeal to the emotional and visual memory of children. Induction.
Please close your eyes. Listen to the recordings.
(The recording "Thunderstorm. Calm. Joyful singing of birds" is turned on.)
What picture did you present? Tell me.
Do you like summer rain? Imagine that you went outside after a thunderstorm. What did you see? What did you feel? (Exchange of impressions.) So today we will prepare for an essay based on the painting by A. M. Gerasimov “After the Rain (Wet Terrace)” (Slide 1) and talk about what the artist A. M. Gerasimov saw after the rain, when he stepped out onto his terrace.
Let's repeat. What genres of painting do you know? What types of text? (slide 3)
Are you curious about the artist and how this painting came about?
3. A story about an artist and his painting. (slides 4-7)
A.M. Gerasimov was born into a merchant family in Kozlov (now Michurinsk), studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Portrait painter, landscape painter, master of thematic painting. People's Artist of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Doctor of Arts.
The artist A. M. Gerasimov lived in Moscow for a long time and was a Kremlin painter: he painted pictures of the leaders of Stalin, Lenin, and other leaders of the country. But soon he moved to his hometown of Kozlov (now it is the city of Michurinsk, Tambov region). He loved his house and garden very much. He especially liked to observe nature during the rain or after it. His sister recalled that one day he was shocked by the sight of their garden after a heavy summer rain. The artist shouted to his assistant to quickly give him a brush and palette. So in three hours the painting “After the Rain” was created, which Gerasimov considered one of his best paintings.
What interesting things have you heard about the artist and his painting? (The painting "After the Rain" was created in three hours!)
4. Formulation of the topic and objectives of the lesson.
The artist works with the help of paints, and we will work with the help of the word in our workshop. Tell me, what can you think of words? Right. Phrases, sentences, text. And what text can be written about the picture? (Story, essay.) Formulate the topic of the lesson. (“Preparation for an essay based on the painting by A. M. Gerasimov “After the Rain”.)
What do you think it means to write an essay on a painting?
Understand the artist's intent. Track how the artist realized his idea in the picture (composition, color scheme). To convey your attitude to the image depicted on the canvas, your thoughts, feelings.
How to prepare for writing?
It is necessary to collect the necessary words, phrases, sentences to make a good text; make an essay plan. Then it will be easier for us to write it.
So you said the objectives of our lesson. Tell me, why did we sit in groups?
We will work together, listen to each other and help each other.
Right. But do not rush to take someone else’s, maybe your option is also good, because the motto of our workshop is “You are all capable!”.
5. Lexical work. Deconstruction.
Highlight key words in the title of the picture. Write them down in a column. Rain, terrace, wet. Explain the word terrace. You can look up the meaning of the word in the explanatory dictionary. (Summer open (without walls) extension to a house, building.) Pay attention to how this word is spelled.
Is it possible to see terraces in our area?
Terraces are built in central Russia, in the south, while in our country, in the north, there are verandas next to the houses.
Choose synonyms for the words "rain", "wet". (Reading aloud synonyms.) Why do you need to pick them up? To avoid repetition. Pick up adjectives for the nouns "terrace", "rain". Adjectives enrich the content of the sentence, with the help of which we will compose the text.
6. Re-examination of the picture. Deconstruction and socialization (slide 8)
What is shown in the picture?
What genre would you classify A.M. Gerasimov?
From what details of the picture do we guess that it just rained?
Did the artist manage to convey the feeling of freshness after the rain?
The painting has two titles. Why do you think? Which title more accurately conveys the author's intent?
What type of text will your essay be classified as?
Describe what you see (slide 9)A round table, a bouquet of flowers in a jug, carved table legs, an overturned glass, the shine of wet surfaces, shadows from objects.
7. Let's do vocabulary work (slide 10): Writing in notebooks
Summer rain; everything is drunk about moisture; everything shines; fresh, washed downpour foliage; on the front eat and background; flames blaze into the glass fine roses; wet gloss, not me bright sunlight; vsp oh m and nayu ts i lines from verse o creations of A.Ya.Yashin; def about the thrown glass and kan; through the dense green foliage you can see the roof of the barn; feel fresh air and silence and on; te rr asa, perila.
8. Appeal to additional sources. Gap. (slide 11)
Both poets and writers - masters of the word - write about what happens in nature after rain. Listen to one poem (recited by a trained student). What do the poem and the painting have in common? This is a poem by the poet A. Yashin "After the rain." It is in your textbook. What unusual words did the poet find to more vividly show the changes in nature? Compare with your text if you have any unusual words. Look in your group to see which words from the poem fit our picture. Write them out. Consider if there are artistic means here. (“Drops on the branches hang like earrings” - a comparison, “In the cups of leaves, on each blade of grass, a little light, a piece of silver” - a metaphor.) What is the role of these artistic means? Can these lines be used in an essay? How to arrange it?
Syntax. Punctuation. We will make sentences and write them down in a notebook, check what is written. (slides 12-13)
- I recall the lines from A.Ya. Yashin's poem "After the Rain": "Drops on the branches hang like earrings", "In the cups of leaves, on each blade of grass there is a little light, a piece of silver."
- Everything glitters in the foreground: the railing, the bench, the terrace floor and the table top.
- Roses are blazing in a glass decanter, raindrops are also hanging on them.
- There is a damp sheen and dim sunlight all around, and you can clearly feel the freshness of the air and the silence of that moment that comes immediately after the rain.
Before you is an excerpt from the story of L. N. Tolstoy "Boyhood". Read it expressively (slide 14):
“But now the rain is getting smaller; the cloud begins to separate into wavy clouds, brightens in the place where the sun should be, and through the grayish-white edges of the cloud one can barely see a patch of clear azure. A minute later, a timid ray of the sun is already shining in the puddles of the road. I experience an inexpressibly gratifying sense of hope in life. My soul smiles just like the refreshed, cheerful nature. I lean out of the chaise and greedily drink the fragrant air into myself. Everything is wet and shiny in the sun, like varnished. I can’t sit in the britzka, I run to the bushes, tear the wet branches of the blossoming bird cherry, beat myself in the face with them and revel in their wonderful smell.
What mood does Tolstoy's hero give rise to spring rain?
Are your feelings that you experience when looking at the picture similar to the feelings of the hero?
Find those combinations that can be used in the composition.
Pay attention to what amazing words the masters of the word find in order to show the picture more expressively, to more accurately express the feelings of the characters. Let's learn this skill.
Let's pick up synonyms to avoid repetitions (slide 15)
- Painting - canvas, landscape
- Artist - painter, landscape painter
- Painted - pictured, showed
9. Discussion of ways to analyze the picture.
What first caught your eye when you looked at the picture? (Terrace.) So, how best to describe the picture? (First the foreground, and then the background.)
What else do we talk about when we describe a painting by an artist? (About the paints used by the artist)
What are paintings for? (The artist wants to say with his picture how beautiful our land is. We, the audience, enjoy the created images, we are imbued with a good mood.)
Right. So, in the essay you also need to express your mood.
10. Talk about the color scheme of the picture. (slide 16)
What colors did the artist use? Write in your notebook. Speak up in a group and say it out loud.
Why did the artist use these particular colors?
Color in a painting matters a lot. The artist creates an image with the help of color, conveys his attitude to the hero, evokes a certain mood. We see soft, calm colors: light green and dark green, pinkish-yellow, burgundy tones. These combinations create a summer mood. The silver tint on all items gives rise to a feeling of coolness.
What can you say about the artist - the author of the picture? (He loves his garden, his native nature very much. He likes to depict changes in nature.)
11. Talk about the mood of the audience (students).
Take a close look at the picture again. Do you like her? How? What mood does she create? What are your feelings? Write down 1-2 sentences.
12. Making a plan. Socialization. (slide 17)
How will we arrange the material that you have collected? Make your plan. Then discuss them in a group and highlight the best ones. Read them aloud. (Maybe something like this:
1. Before us is the painting by A. M. Gerasimov “After the Rain”.
2. Wet terrace.
3. Garden after the rain.
4. The color of the picture.
5. The mood that the picture creates.
13. Compilation of the text. Reconstruction.
Tell me, can we compose a text now? Compose your text based on the available material. Then read it to the group. Discuss. Decide whose texts are better. We will listen to them with pleasure. Good luck to you! Remember: you are all capable!
14. Listening to the best texts, group performances. Evaluation of other groups. Advertising. (slide 18)
What did you like about the essay? Good times?
What needs to be added?
15. Homework. (slide 19)
Supplement the text with notes from the notebook, figurative means, individual impressions and write a draft of the essay.
16. Reflection.
What have you learned today?
What discovery did you make today?
What is your mood?
Did you enjoy working in a group?
Which of the comrades surprised? How?
What did not go well in group work? Why do you think?
List of used literature.
1.Russian language. 6th grade. Proc. For general education institutions. At 2 o'clock / (M.T. Baranov, T.A. Ladyzhenskaya, L.T. Trostentsova and others; scientific editor N.M. Shansky) - M .: Education, 20013.
Composition based on the painting After the rain by A.M. Gerasimov for students in grade 6.
Plan
- The plot of the painting by A. Gerasimov "After the rain"
- Description of the terrace, table, jar of flowers
- The background of the picture (garden, house, building)
- painting technique
- My mood from what I saw.
I am looking at A. M. Gerasimov’s painting “After the Rain”. Everything that I see, I need to describe in an essay. I'll start with the plot of the picture. Before our eyes appears a small terrace after the rain. The artist chose objects as the object of his canvas: a table, a jug of flowers, part of a terrace with a railing, and depicted them against the backdrop of nature.
It just rained. We see spilled small puddles on the bench and the floor of the terrace. Everything is reflected in the brilliance of the wet surface. An overturned faceted glass lies on the table. Apparently, the rain was very strong, if it left so many “traces” behind it.
The terrace itself is not fully visible to us. Vertical supports hold the roof (we can only see its corner), a wooden platform has steps leading to the garden. A narrow bench ends with a simple railing. On such a terrace it is pleasant to sit in the evening and enjoy the smells of nature. Or you can get together with your family and have a cup of tea.
To the left is a table with carved legs. The figured table top is also covered with raindrops. And on the table is a glass jar with flowers. A bouquet of beautiful flowers also felt the power of rain. Some petals have fallen and lie in the water that has accumulated on the edge of the table. Or maybe it was the wind that dropped the jug and scattered the delicate petals? Flowers are painted in white and red, somewhere they have shades of pink and pale green. The leaves are very dark and rich green. The bouquet was probably collected only before the rain to decorate the table with it. But suddenly it began to rain, and the bouquet remained on the terrace.
In the background of the picture we see part of the garden. All its greenery is full of different shades. Somewhere it is very bright, light, even turning into a light green color, and somewhere dark green, juicy, with a shade of emerald and even blue. There are a lot of trees in the garden. To the side you can see some kind of wooden building, maybe it's a small shed or a small bathhouse. There is a pipe on its roof.
On the right in the picture, behind the dense foliage, we see the corner of the house, to which the terrace adjoins. A. Gerasimov used an interesting image technique. All items are blurred. There are no clear right lines. Blurry stroke technique makes the picture interesting. If you look closely, you can see instead of leaves on a tree just a vague brush stroke. It's as if the artist didn't try to draw all the elements the way they look, and left blurry spots of the right colors on the canvas. Flowers in a jug, and part of the terrace, and a piece of the sky that shines through the dense foliage are also depicted. The colors blend well here. They are combined with each other, forming a new shade.
The picture does not create a good mood. After the rain it becomes light and joyful, nature is renewed, everything around is fresh. No sad thoughts, only positive emotions!
Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov
After the Rain (Wet Terrace)
Canvas, oil. 78 x 85
State Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
By 1935, having painted many portraits of V. I. Lenin, I. V. Stalin and other Soviet leaders, A. M. Gerasimov advanced to the major masters of socialist realism. Tired of the struggle for official recognition and success, he went to rest in his native and beloved city of Kozlov. This is where the "Wet Terrace" was created.
The artist's sister recalled how the painting was painted. Her brother was literally shocked by the sight of their garden after one unusually heavy rain. “Nature was fragrant with freshness. The water lay in a whole layer on the foliage, on the floor of the gazebo, on the bench and sparkled, creating an extraordinary picturesque chord. And then, behind the trees, the sky cleared and whitened.
Mitya, rather a palette! - Alexander shouted to his assistant Dmitry Rodionovich Panin. The painting, which my brother called "Wet Terrace", arose with lightning speed - it was painted within three hours. Our modest garden arbor with a corner of the garden received a poetic expression under the brush of my brother.
At the same time, the picture that arose spontaneously was not painted by chance. The picturesque motif of nature refreshed by rain attracted the artist during his studies at the School of Painting. He succeeded in wet objects, roofs, roads, grass. Alexander Gerasimov, perhaps without knowing it himself, went to this picture for many years and secretly wanted to see with his own eyes what we now see on the canvas. Otherwise, he could simply not pay attention to the rain-drenched terrace.
There is no tension in the picture, there are no rewritten pieces and an invented plot. It is indeed written in one breath, as fresh as the breath of green foliage washed by rain. The image captivates with spontaneity, it shows the lightness of the artist's feelings.
The artistic effect of the painting was largely predetermined by the high painting technique built on reflexes. “Juicy reflections of garden greens lay on the terrace, pinkish, blue ones on the wet surface of the table. The shadows are colorful, even multicolored. Reflections on the boards covered with moisture cast silver. The artist used glazes, applying new layers of paint over the dried layer - translucent and transparent, like varnish. On the contrary, some details, such as garden flowers, are written pasty, emphasized with textured strokes. A major, elevated note is brought into the picture by backlighting, the reception of lighting from behind, at point-blank range, tree crowns somewhat reminiscent of flickering stained-glass windows ”(Kuptsov I. A. Gerasimov. After the rain // Young artist. 1988. No. 3. P. 17. ).
In Russian painting of the Soviet period, there are few works where the state of nature would be so expressively conveyed. I believe that this is the best picture of A. M. Gerasimov. The artist lived a long life, painted many paintings on various subjects, for which he received many awards and prizes, but at the end of the journey, looking back at the past, he considered this work to be the most significant.
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"After the Rain (Wet Terrace)"
1935 Oil on canvas 78 x 85
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
For this painting in 1937 the artist received the Grand Prix of the World Exhibition in Paris.
A.M. Gerasimov recalled: “At my exhibition“ 25 years of creativity ”there was a sketch, known under the double name“ Wet Terrace ”and“ After the Rain ”(now it is in the Tretyakov Gallery). I made a sketch in an hour and a half. It happened like this: I wrote there was a group portrait of my family on the terrace. fresh greenery and sparkling streams of water that flooded the table with a bouquet of roses, the bench and the floorboards ... I feverishly began to write ...
I did not attach any particular importance to this sketch, and only at the exhibition, not without chagrin, I noticed that many viewers pay more attention to the sketch "Wet Terrace" than to the huge painting "First Horse" ... "
(Quoted from the ed.: Gerasimov A.M. Life of an artist. M., 1963. S. 157-158).
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By 1935, having painted many portraits of V.I. Lenin, I.V. Stalin and other Soviet leaders, A.M. Gerasimov became one of the greatest masters of socialist realism. Tired of the struggle for official recognition and success, he went to rest in his native and beloved city of Kozlov. This is where the "Wet Terrace" was created.
The artist's sister recalled how the painting was painted. Her brother was literally shocked by the sight of their garden after one unusually heavy rain. “Nature was fragrant with freshness. The water lay in a whole layer on the foliage, on the floor of the gazebo, on the bench and sparkled, creating an extraordinary picturesque chord. And then, behind the trees, the sky cleared and whitened.
- Mitya, rather a palette! - Alexander shouted to his assistant Dmitry Rodionovich Panin. The picture, which my brother called "Wet Terrace", appeared with lightning speed - it was painted within three hours. Our modest garden arbor with a corner of the garden received a poetic expression under the brush of my brother.
At the same time, the picture that arose spontaneously was not painted by chance. The picturesque motif of nature refreshed by rain attracted the artist during his studies at the School of Painting. He succeeded in wet objects, roofs, roads, grass. Alexander Gerasimov, perhaps without knowing it himself, went to this picture for many years and secretly wanted to see with his own eyes what we now see on the canvas. Otherwise, he could simply not pay attention to the rain-drenched terrace.
There is no tension in the picture, there are no rewritten pieces and an invented plot. It is indeed written in one breath, as fresh as the breath of green foliage washed by rain. The image captivates with spontaneity, it shows the lightness of the artist's feelings.
The artistic effect of the painting was largely predetermined by the high pictorial technique built on reflexes (See fragment). “Juicy reflections of garden greens lay on the terrace, pinkish, blue ones on the wet surface of the table. The shadows are colorful, even multicolored. Reflections on the boards covered with moisture cast silver. The artist used glazes, applying new layers of paint over the dried layer - translucent and transparent, like varnish. On the contrary, some details, such as garden flowers, are written pasty, emphasized with textured strokes. A major, elevated note is brought into the picture by backlighting, the reception of lighting from behind, at point-blank range, tree crowns somewhat reminiscent of flickering stained-glass windows ”(Kuptsov I.A. Gerasimov. After the rain // Young Artist. 1988. No. 3. P. 17. ).
In Russian painting of the Soviet period, there are few works where the state of nature would be so expressively conveyed. I believe this is the best picture of A.M. Gerasimov. The artist lived a long life, painted many paintings on various subjects, for which he received many awards and prizes, but at the end of the journey, looking back at the past, he considered this work to be the most significant.
