We were in the Tretyakov Gallery. We entered along the main staircase. Then we saw many pictures. I liked A. Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People” most of all. This picture is very big. It was supported by brackets. Ivanov painted it for 20 years. I also liked the painting by V. Vasnetsov “Bogatyrs”. We were told that the paintings crack due to changes in air temperature. But there are special devices that measure air temperature.
Vlad
We were in the Tretyakov Gallery. There are a lot of paintings there. I liked most of all the painting by V. Vasnetsov “Alyonushka” and the painting by I. Shishkin “Morning in a Pine Forest”. I also liked the painting “Horsewoman”, painted by Bryullov. I liked these paintings because they were very beautiful. These pictures were painted with oil paints. To preserve them, they must be kept warm. When the tour ended, we went to the store. There was a lot there. When we bought everything, we went to school.
Willow
I was in the Tretyakov Gallery. We walked up the main staircase. Tretyakov invited guests to his house to look at his paintings. When guests arrived, he stood on this staircase and invited guests to the room with paintings. There was a huge painting. The artist Ivanov V. painted it for 20 years. The painting is called “The Appearance of Christ to the People.” This picture was not painted at once, first they painted it piece by piece, and then they put everything together, and it turned out to be a picture. I also liked the picture with the bears. It was written by I. Shishkin. I liked the Tretyakov Gallery.
Ida
We were in the Tretyakov Gallery. I liked the painting “Horsewoman” by K. Bryullov most of all. This painting depicted girls. One girl is standing on the balcony, she is 5-6 years old, and the other is sitting on a horse, she is 17-18 years old. I liked this picture because the horse was drawn in motion. I also liked I. Kramskoy’s painting “Unknown”. It depicted a lady, rather, richly dressed. And from her look it was impossible to understand why she was so sad. I really liked the Tretyakov Gallery.
Kate
I was with my class at the Tretyakov Gallery. It is called Tretyakovskaya because the merchant Tretyakov collected all the paintings there. It was his hobby to collect paintings. He hung them all over the house. Tretyakov donated his paintings and the house itself to Moscow. Later the house was turned into a museum. All the paintings were beautiful, but most of all I liked the painting by A. Ivanov, “The Appearance of Christ to the People.” She was huge! Ivanov drew 600 sketches! He wrote it for 20 years! It depicted the baptism of people.
Kirill
Our class was in the Tretyakov Gallery. I liked the painting “Bogatyrs” most of all. It was written by V. Vasnetsov. I also liked the painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People.” I liked her because she is beautiful. Its artist Ivanov spent 20 years painting from sketches.
Lyosha
We went to the Tretyakov Gallery. I really liked the portrait of Countess Lopukhina. The Countess was depicted very beautifully. The colors were light and delicate. I also liked A. Kuindzhi’s painting “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper.” She seemed to be all glowing! I study watercolor painting at Sergei Andriyaka’s school, and when I said this, they told me that maybe my paintings would appear here too.
Lisa
We were in the Tretyakov Gallery. I liked two paintings the most. The first painting was called “Morning in a Pine Forest.” This picture was painted by two artists: the forest was painted by artist I. Shishkin, and the cubs are Savitsky. And the second painting was called “Horsewoman”, this painting was painted by K. Bryullov. The painting depicted two girls. The little one was five to six years old, and the big one was fifteen to sixteen years old. And they told us the story of these girls. These girls lived in Italy, they were orphaned, and they were sheltered by a Russian countess. I really liked the Tretyakov Gallery!
Marianne
We went to the Tretyakov Gallery. There were many different paintings there. But I liked 4 paintings: V. Vasnetsov’s painting “Bogatyrs”, I. Shishkin’s painting “Morning in a Pine Forest”, A. Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People”, A. Kuindzhi’s painting “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper”. I liked the painting by Kuindzhi A. because in it the moon shone like a weak lamp. I saw one picture of a mountain of skulls, but we didn’t go to it.
Misha K.
We went to the Tretyakov Gallery. There we looked at a lot of pictures. I liked V. Vasnetsov’s painting “Bogatyrs” most of all. This painting depicted three heroes. There was also a big picture. It is called “The Appearance of Christ to the People” by I. Ivanov. The artist painted it for 20 years. It depicted how John the Baptist baptized people. Jesus Christ is coming towards him. He says to John: “Baptize me.” John replies: “It is you who must baptize me!” I want to go there again.
Misha R.
We were in the Tretyakov Gallery. I liked the painting “Bogatyrs” most of all. It was painted by V. Vasnetsov. I also saw a huge painting, it was called “The Appearances of Christ to the People.” It was written by Ivanov. It was mounted on brackets. This picture took 20 years to paint! This painting required 600 sketches! I was most struck by A. Kuindzhi’s painting “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper”. He mixed the paints so that they glow in the picture. All paintings have plaques with the name of the author and the title of the painting written on them. Paintings can deteriorate over time. They should not be kept in a draft, otherwise they will crack.
Savva
We went to the Tretyakov Gallery. It is so called because the merchant Tretyakov collected paintings in his house, and then donated them to the city of Moscow. I liked A. Kuindzhi’s painting “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper” most of all. The background in the painting is very dark, and the moon seems to be glowing. I also liked I. Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People.” Ivanov wrote it for 20 years and made 600 sketches. I really enjoyed the gallery.
In front of me is I. Brodsky’s painting “Summer Garden in Autumn”. The author depicted on it the beauty of a summer garden in autumn.
In the picture we see a wide, spacious alley. The whole earth is strewn with golden-orange leaves. The trees stand naked, but in some places golden leaves are still preserved on thin and bare branches. It seems that they are about to come off and fall onto the path.
To the side there is a small, bright gazebo where you can hide from bad weather. The gazebo is located on a hill, so to enter it, you need to climb the stairs. The windows are shaped like arches. The railings are decorated with beautiful ornaments.
The painting “Summer Garden in Autumn” is not a deserted landscape. Passers-by are walking along the alley. Some of them sit on benches and enjoy the last warm days, admiring nature.
The artist depicted a cloudy sky with gaps. The clouds seem to foretell that turbulent days will soon begin. The colors used by I. Brodsky are surprisingly delicate, with a pale tint.
Levitan began painting the painting “Birch Grove” in the Moscow region (in Babkino, near New Jerusalem) in the summer of 1885 and finished it in Plyos on the Volga in 1889. In Babkino he lived and worked surrounded by A.P.’s family. Chekhov. Friendship with the writer, joint joyful walks, the wondrous nature of those places - all this remained in the memory of the young impressionable artist for a long time and was so firmly remembered that after a long break he was able to complete the painting “Birch Grove”.
Examples of essays based on Levitan's painting "Birch Grove" 4th grade
Levitan's painting "Birch Grove" depicts birch trees. They sparkle in the sun with their unique purity and joy. Looking at them, I am immediately transported to a wonderful fairy tale. The rays of the sun penetrate into every dark corner of the forest. The painting depicts not only birch trees, but also various field herbs and flowers. The picture is very bright and joyful.
I liked this picture, it is bright and joyful. I immediately want to go to nature, take a walk in the forest.
Levitan's painting "Birch Grove" depicts a grove, but not a simple one, but a fabulous one. White slender trunks of birches stand in a clearing, the breeze blows freshly and gently shakes the branches. But there are not only birches in the picture. There are many wildflowers in the foreground. Looking at the picture, a desire arises to go on a hike, admire Russian nature, listen to forest birds.
The picture is very bright and joyful. I really liked it because I really like looking at birches.
Levitan's painting "Birch Grove" depicts white birch trees. They amaze with their Russian simplicity, although they sparkle in the sun. The blades of grass sway from side to side, wildflowers move and play with the wind. This picture is very bright and light, the rays of the sun shine with purity and joy. But there are places in the picture where the sun could not see. And this evokes some kind of mystery and mystery in me. I liked this picture, it reminds me of a wonderful, kind fairy tale.
Levitan's painting "Birch Grove" depicts birch trees. It seems that these are ordinary birches, but in fact they are beautiful Russian trees, you can look at them for a very long time and be amazed at their beauty. Looking at this picture, you can feel that you are in a wonderful fairy tale. This picture is very bright. Wonderful birch trees sparkle with purity and joy. Due to the light breeze, the blades of grass sway from side to side. I really want to visit this grove and enjoy the Russian beauty of nature.
I really liked this picture. After all, looking at her, you feel an inexplicable joy.
Levitan's painting depicts a birch grove. She is very bright, joyful and fresh. Birches are like beautiful maidens: the trunk is a sundress, and the green branches are kerchiefs. Birch maidens walk through the forest, dance in circles, sing songs. They take a walk in the sun and hide in the shadows - a cloud has appeared, a breeze has blown. The grass rustled, the flowers bowed their heads, and the kerchiefs on the birch trees came undone. You look at the picture and rejoice at its beauty.
I liked this picture. it shows my homeland Russia in all its glory.
Levitan's painting depicts Russian birches. They sparkle with their purity and joy. Looking at them, you want to smile. Birches are a symbol of Russia. This is my homeland.
In the foreground of the picture are thin blades of grass and colorful wildflowers. They bask in the rays of the sun, like in a wonderful fairy tale.
I really liked this picture, it surprises with its simplicity. Everything here is in bright colors, everything is happy.
Essay based on Levitan's painting "Birch Grove" 4th grade
Levitan's painting depicts birches that amaze with their Russian simplicity. It seems that everything here is from a fairy tale. The rays of the sun illuminated every trunk and warmed every blade of grass. There is not a single dark corner left in this grove. Birches sparkle in the sun and are pleasing to the eye.
I really liked this picture because it is light, bright and colorful.
Levitan's painting depicts a Russian fairy tale. The sun illuminated everything, even the darkest corners of the forest. Birches are reaching for the light. The blades of grass sway from side to side. Listen and hear the lark's song.
I really want to get into this grove, lie on the green grass, look at the clear blue sky.
I liked this picture. She is bright and kind.
Levitan's painting depicts Russian birches. They sparkle with purity and joy. Near the white trunks, wildflowers move as if playing with each other. Birches may be ordinary trees, but they contain a wonderful fairy tale. If you listen closely, you can hear birds singing. The sun's rays warm every blade of grass, flower, and leaf.
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Composition
Before us is a painting by the artist A. Savrasov. It depicts the arrival of rooks. In the foreground of the picture there is melted snow mixed with tree bark, dirt, and clay. Several birch trees are also depicted; they are all naked, broken, lopsided, lonely, and it seems that they are about to collapse. Rooks sit on birch trees, some just sit, and some make nests. There is a lot of melt water behind the birches.
In the middle plan of the picture there is a small fence, which is already completely rotting, the paint has almost completely peeled off. We also see wooden houses that also rot and mold. You can see the church, which, unlike other buildings, is built of white stone. But the white stone had already turned from white to gray and was all cracked, and the domes became dull and ugly. The same thing happens with the bell tower. And near the buildings there are low bushes.
In the background of the picture, the artist depicted a field, all in puddles and liquid mud, and in some places on the field white stripes are visible - snow. The artist depicted the sky as cloudy and cheerless. It's all in dark clouds. On the right, the sun barely shines through the clouds, but the sky is still dark.
I liked this picture because it is beautiful and very natural. I also like it because there is a village there, and I like to relax in the village, and I really like to watch the behavior of rooks - it’s very interesting.
Tour guides and art historians usually tell us about the painter’s skill, his artistic techniques, the ideas that inspired him, details of the era and biography, explaining what idea and by what means he wanted to convey to us. All this is interesting and important in its own way, but by and large does not bring us any closer to understanding what exactly is happening between us and the picture that has amazed us and what our dialogue with it actually consists of.
Open the curtain
The explicit content of the picture, its plot, is a kind of trap. A parallel can be drawn between a painting and a dream. A dream also has a plot, but to find out what worries a person, his deep-seated problems, analyzing this plot will not give anything. The psychoanalyst understands that the plot of a dream is like a theater curtain that hides the essence - the space of the stage. No matter how much you talk about what is painted on it, the curtain will not open. But when the patient begins to spontaneously, without thinking, pronounce his associations, feelings arising in connection with the dream, then the unconscious theater that is behind the curtain opens up. It's the same with paintings. In moments of creativity, the artist strives to awaken the deep voice of the unconscious within himself. He knows that awareness will kill that voice. And the deeper the unconscious layer he can convey on canvas, the more captivating his painting will be.
Trust perception
But on the other hand, the perception of a picture is a deeply personal act. Either something in you resonates with this picture, or it doesn’t. That is why it is so absurd to talk about how such and such a great picture cannot help but shock us. In the Louvre you can always see a crowd around the Mona Lisa: you can’t push your way through it, there are camera flashes from all sides, everyone is excited, and everyone seems to think that something incredible is happening in their soul right now. This is an example of false perception. Many people think that they are experiencing something. Because it’s right, it’s the way it’s supposed to be. And having ticked the box, they leave, satisfied with themselves. In fact, when approaching even the most beautiful picture, we can never be sure of what we will feel right now. Feelings cannot be programmed. The picture may turn out to be “not ours,” and it is simply impossible to consciously evoke emotions in oneself.
Resonate
The true perception of a picture is serious internal work, but not of the mind, but of our unconscious. This happens only when we, like an artist creating a picture, stop reflecting, rationalizing and let go of ourselves, our feelings, and fantasies. We wander through the halls, stopping at some paintings, and only glancing at others. The fewer expectations, the better. And at some point, perhaps, we feel an instant resonance with one of the paintings. Not understanding what exactly led to it. The plot of the picture will not help us understand this. But at this moment we feel something new - excitement, excitement or some other emotion. We may even want to run away from the painting because it stirs up dark sides in us or awakens painful experiences. Or, on the contrary, it reveals the best sides in us, and we will want to prolong this feeling. Or we may not feel anything special - we just want to stand and look at her. Perhaps the next day we will see some kind of dream or something will happen to us that it would not occur to us to associate with this picture (but which would be revealed if a person underwent psychoanalysis). Its impact can be deep and long-lasting, even extremely long-lasting. But we most likely will not know about this because we will not be able to connect cause and effect.
Feel alive
Why then is this so important to us? Why do we go to museums, galleries, and exhibitions over and over again? Do we return to “our” paintings again and again? Each of us wants to be a more alive, more emotional, open and creative person. But this also frightens us, and we close ourselves off, trying to take control of everything, to live more mechanically. Artists, on the contrary, spend their entire lives trying to somehow launch this living, creative process within themselves and convey it on canvas. And for us, the paintings become windows into this other world, the world of the unconscious. This world reveals itself a little to us both in our dreams and in our waking fantasies. But, not trusting ourselves, we are afraid to look there. And the picture is a window that is already open. A road that has already been paved. There is definitely a world behind this “curtain”! And we feel the need to join this mystery. We need to know that there is another world other than our three-dimensional one. This is a reminder that we have an infinite soul, an infinite consciousness, deep emotions that give a completely different meaning to our lives. And our dialogue with the artist becomes a dialogue between two creators.
The collective unconscious is the source of inspiration for the artist (in a broad sense, the creator), argued Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. “Art,” he wrote, “is innate to the artist as an instinct that takes possession of him and makes him his instrument.”* Jung considered the main feature of the artist’s personality to be “duality”, “a synthesis of paradoxical properties”: two forces are fighting in him – “an ordinary person with his needs for happiness, satisfaction and security in life” and “a merciless creative passion, inevitably trampling all his personal wishes into the mud " That is why the personal fate of the artist is often unsuccessful or even tragic. Jung likened a great work of art to a dream that does not have an unambiguous interpretation: a dream “reveals an image of how nature grows a plant, and we are left to draw our own conclusions from this image.”
Art as instinct
* K. G. Jung “Psychology and Poetic Creativity” (translation by S. Averintsev) in the collection “Self-Awareness of European Culture of the 20th Century” (Politizdat, 1991).