Autumn day. Sokolniki

The picture shows autumn and a woman in black. She walks along the path of the park, which is surrounded by golden young trees (the leaves have already begun to fly off), and behind them there is a high wall of dark trees. They are tall and old, powerful at the same time. There are no flower beds.

There is a bench near this well-groomed, slightly ornate path. (This is a park, after all!) But, of course, no one sits on it anymore - it’s cold. It is possible that it has rained recently and the boards may be damp.

This day is not sunny at all. The sky is gray, clouds - the sun is not visible. Most likely, it was cool, since the woman shrank a little, as if from cold and dampness. She walks, judging by her flowing dress, quite quickly - this is not a stroll. In general, people walking are no longer visible. Maybe it's just a weekday. The grass is still greenish. There are no birds, no flowers. More precisely, there are darker spots in the grass. These are apparently dried flowers.

The woman's gaze is distracted. She is looking somewhere to the side. The black dress suggests that she is a widow. For example, she walks through the park with her sad thoughts, with memories of how, for example, she walked here with her parents. However, she has white sleeves and an ornament on her neck. Perhaps this is not mourning, but simply a tribute to fashion. The woman is young, there are no gray hairs in her dark hair. She doesn’t have an umbrella or any kind of cape yet, which means it’s not that cold there.

This park looks more like a well-groomed forest. The path is quite wide. You can also ride here on horseback. The path is repeated by the gray sky. The same stripe is at the top of the picture. The road goes somewhere into the distance and turns.

The picture is somewhat alarming. Calm on the outside, but worried inside. Very autumnal: both in colors and in mood. It doesn’t cause any rejection in me, but rather curiosity.

Description 2

Levitan's recognition as a talented artist began with this painting. Tretyakov bought it for his gallery. And at that time, getting into his collection was tantamount to receiving the Nobel Prize now.

The painting depicts an autumn park. We see a high sky with large white clouds floating across it. They give the picture a cloudy feeling. It might rain any minute.

The grass is still green, but not as lush as in summer. But the path is strewn with yellow withered leaves falling from young trees growing along the path. They stand out against the background of tall pines with their yellowness. Pines, like evergreen giants, stand behind the young shoots.

A lonely girl is walking along the path. This is so unlike Levitan. People are extremely rare in his paintings. The girl was drawn by a friend of the artist, the brother of the writer Chekhov.

The picture is painted in sad colors. It reflects the artist’s internal state at the time of painting. The artist was Jewish by nationality. In Moscow, police terror began against them. And the artist was evicted from the city. He began to live near the city in a place called Saltykovo.

He indulged in memories and reproduced his favorite places on canvas. When you look closely at the painting, you can see the distinct strokes that paint the path and the crowns of the pine trees. And if you move a little further away from the painting, the strokes are no longer visible. Everything merges together, the picture seems airy.

The brush is sensitive to the artist’s mood. She conveys his anxious state, uncertainty about the future. It feels like you are looking at a painting from the bottom up. Therefore, the sky seems high, and the pine trees are huge, reaching into the sky.

And the path seems so wide for a lonely figure. This is the road along which the artist himself walks. He doesn’t know where he’s going. Just like the woman in the painting. The wind flutters the hem of her dress. This makes her seem even more lonely and defenseless. I just want to feel sorry for her.

If you fantasize a little, it seems that you can hear the rustling of leaves on the path, the wind plays with them. Tall pines creak. You can even hear the girl walking through the leaves. They rustle under her feet. And there is nothing comparable to the smell of autumn leaves.

Essay describing the painting Autumn day. Sokolniki Levitan

A true artist is capable of seeing and feeling the beauty of nature by depicting it on canvas. This is what one of the outstanding masters of painting, Isaac Levitan, did. His painting - Autumn Day showed autumn in all its glory. Like the wings of a bird, the horizon opened its arch above the trees. An autumn day has brought white smoky clouds above the treetops, where in some places gray shades of a slightly cloudy sky are visible.

A dense array of fir trees seems to guard the path rushing into the distance, located on both sides of it. And only the tall pines seem to be slightly swaying their branches, giving away the mood of autumn. And the path between them is surrounded by them, almost evenly spaced near the side of the road. Just along the outskirts of the walking path grow small trees, already completely with yellowed leaves thickly covering their branches. And alone with nature, a lonely figure of a woman is in a hurry somewhere, or maybe taking a walk, driven by a light breeze fluttering her robe.

In time with this, it’s as if the golden trees are waving their branches after her and welcoming her into this park area. They grow on a lawn covered with thick, lush green grass with a rare yellow tint, which remains in the same color when it was still warm, reminiscent of the end of summer. A tidy path with fallen golden leaves frames it along the edges. They are so skillfully drawn by the master and create the impression of a golden fringe. The general background of the picture sets the viewer up to perceive autumn as one of the favorable times of the year for reflection and quiet walks in nature.

Perhaps this landscape was painted by the author after such walks in the autumn park, where he saw all the charm of real autumn. A small path in the foreground on the right creeps imperceptibly into the thicket of the forest. The golden beauty of autumn does not at all darken the mood accustomed to a cheerful summer. This is exactly what Levitan wanted to express, reserving the right for autumn to be one of his favorite times of the year.

The choice of such a plan will not leave indifferent those who love the art of real artists, revered for their tireless work and real reflection of reality, when their work will be admired and admired forever. Just standing and looking at the picture is enough to mentally visit this park and agree with the artist with the charm of autumn.

Isaac Ilyich Levitan’s painting “Autumn Day in Sokolniki” from 1879 is one of a kind and happy for the artist!

The fact is that in this picture, for the first and last time in Levitan’s artistic life, a person was depicted at work. The lonely, fragile figure of a woman was not painted by Isaac Ilyich himself. His friend, brother of the writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov, helped him in this.

The history of this particular painting is wonderfully described in Konstantin Paustovsky’s essay “Isaac Levitan.”

Levitan did not graduate from the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He had no diploma, no money. In addition, according to the royal decree, Jews were forbidden to live in the capital, and he was evicted to Saltykovka, located near Moscow. There, for the first time, Isaac Ilyich, who was eighteen years old at that moment, began to paint in the air, learning, on the advice of Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov, to convey “air” in a painting.

Since the artist had no income, he was extremely poor and did not consider it possible to communicate with the circle of summer residents who were in the village at that moment.

The young man spent the entire summer in the reeds, on a boat with a sketchbook, trying to convey the summer state of the rural landscape.

Laughter, children running by and a young voice singing romances excited the young man. One day he saw his neighbor at the end of summer, walking quickly past his abode. She carried a small umbrella in her hands, and the sleeves of her elegant dress were trimmed with black lace, emphasizing the whiteness of her hands. The melancholy inspired by the words of the romance and the beauty of the Moscow region gave the artist a reason to paint an autumn landscape. The high, cloudy, bright sky almost meets the horizon with a path strewn with fallen leaves. The forest is still dark and the grass is still green, but the young maples planted along the droshky are already shining with the autumn flames of yellow, orange and red leaves.

Memories of a mysterious neighbor forced Levitan to turn to his fellow student Nikolai Chekhov, who entered the sad silhouette into the landscape.

The fragile female figure seems so lonely, so small in this endless air space framed by the mysterious dark wall of the forest. The woman is dressed in black, as if she is mourning for the summer.

This painting was the first one purchased from Levitan by Tretyakov for his collection.

Throughout the artist’s life, Isaac Ilyich Levitan was under the close attention of Tretyakov, who often bought works from him.

Levitan's creativity is marked by a special ability to “talk” with nature and show the beauty and charm of completely simple, inconspicuous corners of his country.

One cannot help but recall the famous painting by Isaac Ilyich Levitan “Autumn Day. Sokolniki". He painted it in 1879 and to this day it remains in a place of honor in the Tretyakov Gallery. Two aspects make this painting 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, the brother of the famous writer, Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov . The time of painting was very difficult for our author. After the decree banning the presence of Jews in Moscow, Levitan was forced to move to Saltykovka. All his landscapes from that period are sad and nostalgic.

In the picture we see dark tall pine trees. They evoke some kind of melancholy and worries. Small trees grow along the path. Yellow leaves barely stay on small branches through the raging wind. The same wind knocked a shock of leaves to the edges of the path, as if clearing the way for the mysterious lady. And who is this woman? Maybe this is just a random passerby walking through the park on an autumn day. Or perhaps this is not a random woman. Maybe it 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 blowing from the strong wind and the dark figure of a woman speak of his melancholy. And the very fact that the woman was not drawn by the artist himself gives her even more mystery and enigma.

 Probably the greatest achievement for Levitan was the recognition of his painting and its place in the Tretyakov Gallery. And although many more of the author’s works have found their home there, it is the dark figure of a woman that will always be the first. Many people call all his landscapes musical, lyrical, poetic. So is the painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki" became an inspiration for many poets and musicians.

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