Painting by Isaac Levitan “Autumn Day. Sokolniki” was painted in 1879 by the young artist and became his calling card, having received the highest rating from Pavel Tretyakov, who bought it at an exhibition for his personal collection. This work reflects the difficult experiences of the author during the period of persecution of Jews (Levitan was forced to leave Moscow by order of the police)
This is the only Levitan landscape where a person is present.
It is known that the woman is inscribed in the landscape by a friend of Levitan - the brother of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Nikolai. She seems defenseless in this deserted park and evokes a sad sense of unease.
The female figure looks sad under the pressure of overcast clouds, pine trees rising to the sky, yellowed autumn leaves of other trees ...
The main character of the canvas is still nature - majestic and incomprehensible, surpassing all human experiences.
Levitan knew how to write in such a way that even the air is felt in his paintings, giving his work a captivating charm.
A stranger, presented by a friend, walking along the path of Sokolniki Park came in handy, reflecting real memories of the stay of Levitan, evicted from the capital, in the summer cottage of Saltykovka, where in the evenings singing of romances could be heard from behind the fence in the dark, and an unfamiliar female voice displaced resentment towards life …
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Isaac Ilyich Levitan was born into an intelligent Jewish family. His grandfather was a rabbi. My father also graduated from the rabbinic school, but later became a teacher of foreign languages, worked as a translator, as well as a cashier and controller at railway stations. His children, and besides Isaac, there were three more in the family, he taught himself, and at the end of the 1860s, despite poverty, he managed to move his family to Moscow in order to enable the children to receive a decent education.
In 1873, at the age of 13, Isaac, who was fascinated by art, followed his older brother Abel and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
In 1875, the mother died in the Levitan family, followed by her father two years later, and the children had to lead an almost beggarly lifestyle. But love for the Russian landscape, extraordinary abilities, sincerity and poetry of nature helped to overcome all difficulties. Vasily Grigoryevich Perov had a great influence on the formation of Levitan as an artist, Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov passed on the “secret of the motive” to the talented young man.
After graduating from college in 1885, Levitan remained to live in Moscow. He worked in various places in the Moscow and Tver regions, in the Crimea, on the Volga, in the 1890s - in Italy, France, Switzerland and Finland.
Since 1898, he led the landscape class of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and showed himself as a wonderful teacher.
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Autumn day. Sokolniki - Isaac Ilyich Levitan. 1879. Oil on canvas. 63.5 x 50 cm
The picture "Autumn day. Sokolniki" can be called one of the most important works in the life of Isaac Levitan, because it is from her that the painter's fame originates.
And it all started with how he lured his young artist Isaac from the natural class from. Under the leadership of Savrasov, Levitan was completely reincarnated. The complex beggarly life of a novice painter did not turn into accusatory plots, but, on the contrary, turned Isaac Ilyich into a subtle lyricist, feeling and contemplative. This is exactly what Savrasov demanded of him: "... write, study, but most importantly - feel!" And young Isaac studied... and felt, of course.
Already in 1879, a wonderful picture appeared, dedicated to Sokolniki Park on one of the gloomy autumn days. The nineteen-year-old student of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture immediately drew the attention of the public, and most importantly, Pavel Tretyakov. The sharp eye of this outstanding Russian philanthropist did not miss a single significant work, especially when not only technique was read in it, but also poetry of color, plot, truthfulness, soul, finally. "Autumn day. Sokolniki” met all these parameters, so it is not surprising that he bought the work directly from the student exhibition, which immediately attracted the close attention of society to its author.
What do we see in the picture? The deserted alley of the park, strewn with yellow fallen leaves. The grass is still green, but this color is not as bright as in summer, but on the contrary, it is withered in autumn. Young trees grow along the road. They were recently planted, which is why they are so thin, with sparse crumbling foliage, and in some places it is completely absent. As a contrast to this young growth, the edges of the picture are “surrounded” by the old trees of the park. Tall, powerful, dark green and slightly gloomy. And over all this poetic landscape clouds float, gray and gloomy, creating the feeling of a damp cloudy day.
The central element of the picture is the heroine, but her presence "does not steal" the main role from nature. Rather, it acts as a kind of tuning fork for the mood created by this park and the autumn day. Just as he had nothing to do with bears from his most famous work, so Levitan is not the author of this remarkable, lonely figure. The girl in a dark dress, walking straight from the canvas towards the viewer, was painted by Nikolai Chekhov, a Russian artist and brother of the famous writer Anton Pavlovich.
The general mood of the canvas is sad and nostalgic, and there is an explanation for this. It was during this period that Levitan underwent the first eviction from, according to a decree prohibiting Jews from living in the city. Living in Saltykovka, Levitan recalled his favorite landscapes, lovingly transferring them to the canvas.
A close examination of the picture reveals a broad manner of writing - both the road and the crowns are written in a sweeping stroke. However, after taking a couple of steps from the frame, all these broad brush strokes merge into an iridescent smooth surface, and the blurring of the palette adds airiness to the landscape.
Another amazing property of the canvas is sound imaging. It seems that one can quite clearly hear the gusty but short movements of the autumn wind, the creak of tall pines, the lonely rustling steps along the path, the rustle of leaves.
Everything in this picture is amazing and atmospheric. The gaze stubbornly clings to individual elements that line up in a coherent, concise, but emotional image. And the last detail is a quick glance at the name, catchy and capacious. Like Blok’s sacramental “Night. Street. Flashlight. Pharmacy ", Levitan has no less exhaustive -" Autumn day. Sokolniki.
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An indisputable confirmation of the lyrical gift of Levitan, as well as the achievements of the Russian landscape, is the painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki", written by the author in 1879. The painting depicts a young graceful woman dressed in black. She walks along the alley strewn with leaves of the old park. The artist managed to fill this plot of the picture with sad feelings of human loneliness and autumn wilt. The gently curving alley, on both sides of which there are thin yellowed maples and tall dark trees, a haze of air - everything testifies to the creation of a holistic and penetrating figurative structure. Clouds floating across a cloudy sky are beautifully depicted by the artist. The picture presented to the viewer received the highest marks, and was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov, who appreciated in it not so much beauty as soul, the unity of truth and poetry. The quiet, rainy and thoughtful day depicted in the picture is filled with air humidity. The muted color scheme of the whole picture is built on a combination of a gray sky with soft greens of pines, warm yellow leaves of maples and already fallen leaves. A large role in conveying the emotional expressiveness of the picture is airiness (the image of the atmosphere): it is permeated with the silence and dampness of autumn. The picture is made in the manner of a wide letter. She was preferred by Levitan to the detailing of his previous landscape works. It seems to only designate tree trunks, their crowns, etc. The author painted the picture with liquid-diluted paint, the shapes of objects are created by a brush stroke, and not by linear means. This is how the author wanted to convey the general state of the landscape, its air humidity, which envelops and erases the surrounding objects. The ratio of a small female figure, as well as huge tall pine trees with the vast expanse of the sky, makes a woman very lonely in the desert of parks. The image is permeated with dynamics: clouds are rushing across the sky, the path in the park runs away into the distance, the figure of a woman moves towards the viewer, and the yellow leaves, just swept to the side of the path, seem to rustle, the disheveled top of the pines swaying in the sky also brings movement to the picture. The alley, going into the distance, attracts our eyes. You involuntarily want to plunge into the thoughts of a pensive female figure in a dark robe, and plunge into this quiet, rainy and thoughtful autumn day.
Description of the painting by Levitan “Autumn day. Sokolniki"
It is impossible not to recall the famous painting by Isaac Ilyich Levitan “Autumn Day. Sokolniki.
He wrote it in 1879 and to this day it is in a place of honor in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Two aspects make this picture famous and exclusive, the fact that this is the only landscape in which the artist depicted a human figure, and the fact that this lonely lady walking in the park was painted not by the author himself, but by his friend, brother of the famous writer, Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov .
The time of writing the picture was very difficult for our author.
After the decree forbidding the stay of a Jew in Moscow, Levitan was forced to move to Saltykovka.
All his landscapes of that period are sad and nostalgic.
In the picture we see dark tall pines.
They evoke some melancholy and feelings.
Small trees grow along the path.
Yellow leaves, barely hanging on small twigs through the raging wind.
The same wind nailed a shock of leaves to the edges of the path, as if freeing the passage for a mysterious lady.
And what is this woman? Maybe it's just a random passerby, walking in the park on an autumn day.
And perhaps this is not an accidental woman.
Maybe she meant something to the author.
Looking at the picture, you can understand the mood of the author.
These dull colors, the overcast sky, the trees fluttering from the strong wind and the dark figure of a woman speak of his longing.
And the very fact that the woman was not drawn by the artist himself gives her even more mystery and mystery.
Probably a great achievement for Levitan was the recognition of his painting and its place in the Tretyakov Gallery.
And although many more works of the author have found their home there, but it is the dark figure of a woman that will always be the first.
Many of his landscapes are called musical, lyrical, poetic.
So is the picture “Autumn Day.
Sokolniki has become an inspiration for many poets and musicians.
