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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 around), and dark trees are already behind them with a high wall. 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 not so long ago, the boards may be damp.

This day is not sunny at all. The sky is gray, the clouds - the sun is not visible. Most likely, it is cool, as the woman cringed a little, as if from cold and dampness. She walks, judging by the flowing dress, quite quickly - this is not a walking step. In general, walking people 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 more dark spots. They appear to be dried flowers.

The woman's gaze is distracted. She looks sideways. The black dress suggests that she is a widow. For example, she walks in 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 around her neck. Perhaps this is not mourning, but simply a tribute to fashion. Young woman, no gray hair V dark hair. She still doesn't have an umbrella and some kind of cape, that is, it's not so cold there.

This park is more like a well-groomed forest. The path is quite wide. Here you can ride a horse. The path repeats the gray sky. The same strip at the top of the picture. The road goes somewhere in the distance, turns.

The picture is somewhat disturbing. Calm on the outside, but restless on the inside. Very autumnal: both in colors and in mood. It does not cause rejection in me, rather, curiosity.

Description 2

With this picture began the recognition of Levitan, as talented artist. It was bought by Tretyakov for his gallery. And at that time, getting into his collection was tantamount to getting the Nobel Prize now.

The picture shows an autumn park. We see a high sky with large white clouds floating across it. They give the picture a cloudy feel. It's about to rain.

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

A lonely girl is walking along the path. This is so unlike Levitan. On his canvases, people are extremely rare. The girl was painted by a friend of the artist, brother of the writer Chekhov.

The picture is written in sad colors. She reflects internal state artist 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. At close examination pictures you can see the distinct strokes with which the path and crowns of pines are written. And if you move away from the picture a little further, then the strokes are no longer visible. Everything merges together, the picture seems airy.

The brush is sensitive to the mood of the artist. She conveys his anxious state, uncertainty in tomorrow. It feels like you are looking at the picture from the bottom up. Therefore, the sky seems high, and the pines are huge, leaving in the sky.

And the path seems so wide for a lonely figure. This is the path along which the artist himself goes. Where he is going he does not know. Like the woman in the picture. The wind flutters the hem of her dress. It makes her feel even more alone and defenseless. So I want to feel sorry for her.

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

Composition description of the painting Autumn day. Sokolniki Levitan

A real artist is capable of seeing and feeling the beauty of nature, displaying it on the canvas. So did one of the outstanding masters of painting - Isaac Levitan. His painting - Autumn Day showed autumn in all its glory. As if the wings of a bird opened its horizon above the trees. Autumn day drove white smoky clouds over the crowns of trees, where in some places they peep gray shades slightly overcast sky.

A dense array of fir trees seems to guard the path, rushing into the distance, located on both sides of it. And only tall pines, as if slightly swaying their branches, giving out the mood of autumn. And the path between them is surrounded by them, almost evenly seated not far from the curb. Quite along the outskirts of the walking path, small trees grow, already completely with yellowed leaves, densely covering their branches. And alone with nature, a lonely figure of a woman hurries somewhere, or maybe takes a walk, driven by a light breeze fluttering her attire.

In time with this, it is as if the golden trees are waving their branches after her and are greeting her in this park area. They grow on a lawn covered with dense lush green grass with a rare yellowness, which remained in that color when it was still warm, reminiscent of the end of summer. A tidy path, with fallen golden leaves, frame it around the edges. They are so skillfully drawn by the master and give the impression of a golden fringe. The general background of the picture sets the viewer to the perception of autumn as one of the favorable seasons for reflection and quiet walks in nature.

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

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.

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/ / Essay-description based on the painting by I.I. Levitan "Autumn Day. Sokolniki"

Beautiful painting "Autumn day. Sokolniki" was created by the great master of the brush - I.I. Levitan.

Before the viewer is depicted a beautiful time of the year - autumn. We see a long alley lined with maple trees on both sides. I think this road is in the park and the inhabitants of the town often walk along it. IN this moment a lone woman walks along it. She is wearing a dark dress. Her gait is quiet and calm. I think she is enjoying the surrounding beauty, the bright yellow maple leaves that have begun to slowly crumble to the ground.

The tall trees in the background of the picture are still completely green, which indicates that autumn has recently taken over.

The artist depicted the sky in gray colors. Fluffy clouds float on it. Most likely, it will start to rain soon and everything in the park will become wet and nondescript.

Looking more closely at the picture, I see that the wind is walking in the park. He develops a dark woman's dress. The heroine of the picture at some moments seems to be resisting strong gusts of wind. Trees lean and say goodbye faster to their bright autumn outfits. Walking in this weather is not very pleasant. After all, the body is completely penetrated by the cold wind and you want to quickly hide in a cozy and warm apartment. But, a woman is not afraid of such nondescript weather. She goes alone with her thoughts. Most likely, she has something to think about and reflect on.

Painting «Autumn day. Sokolniki has its own peculiarity. It turns out that I.I. Levitan never painted people on his canvases. Where did the image of a woman come from? Surprisingly, Chekhov's brother A.P. completed it. It turns out that this canvas was created by two artists. And it seems to me that without female image, the picture would be less realistic and exciting. It is the female person, painted in dark colors, that attracts the attention of the viewer, makes the picture fascinating and mysterious.

Autumn day. Sokolniki

Leaves fall in the garden
Couple circling after couple
Lonely I wander
Through the foliage in the old alley,
In heart - new love,
And I want to answer
Heart songs - and again
Carefree happiness to meet.
Why does the soul hurt?
Who is sad, pitying me?
The wind moans and dusts
Along the birch alley
Tears fill my heart,
And, circling in the garden gloomy,
yellow leaves fly
With sad noise!

I.A. Bunin. Leaves are falling in the garden...

Painting Autumn day. Sokolniki (1879, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) - evidence of Levitan's assimilation of poetic traditions and achievements of the Russian and European landscape and the originality of his lyrical gift. Having captured the alley of the old park strewn with fallen leaves, along which a graceful young woman in black walks quietly (her school friend Nikolai Chekhov, the writer’s brother helped Levitan to paint her), the artist filled the picture with elegiac and sad feelings of autumn withering and human loneliness. A smoothly curving alley framing it with thin yellowed maples and dark tall coniferous trees, a humid haze of air - everything in the picture "participates" in the creation of a soulful and integral "musical" figurative structure. The clouds floating across the cloudy sky are wonderfully written. The picture was noticed by the audience and received, perhaps, the highest possible rating at that time - it was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov, a sensitive amateur landscape painting, who placed above all in it not "beauty", but the soul, the unity of poetry and truth.

Vladimir Petrov

Autumn rainy, but quiet and thoughtful day. Large pines have raised their peaks high into the sky, and next to them on the sides of the alley are small, recently planted maples in golden autumn dress. The alley goes far inland, slightly bending, as if drawing our gaze there. And right at us, in the opposite direction, slowly moving thoughtful female figure in a dark dress.

Levitan strives to convey the humidity of the air of a rainy autumn day: the distance melts in a haze, the air is felt both in the sky and in bluish tones below, under large trees, and in the blurring of the outlines of tree trunks and crowns. The overall muted color scheme of the picture is based on a combination of soft dark green pines with a gray sky, blue tones below them and in contrast with warm yellow maple trees and their fallen leaves on the path. Airiness, that is, the image of the atmosphere, plays essential role in the transfer of the state and emotional expressiveness of the landscape, its autumn dampness and silence.

Levitan replaces the subject-matter and detailing of his previous landscapes with a broader style of painting. Rather, it denotes trees, their trunks, crowns, maple leaves. The picture is painted with liquid diluted paint, the forms of objects are given directly by a brush stroke, and not by linear means. This manner of writing was a natural desire to convey precisely the general state, so to speak, the "weather" of the landscape, to convey the humidity of the air, which, as it were, envelops objects and erases their outlines.

Contrasting the vastness of the sky and the height of the pines with a relatively small figure makes her so lonely in this deserted park. The image is imbued with dynamics: the path runs away into the distance, clouds rush across the sky, the figure moves towards us, yellow leaves, just swept to the edges of the path, seem to rustle, and the disheveled tops of the pines - swaying in the sky.

A.A. Fedorov-Davydov

Composition based on a painting by student 8A Kochanova Natalia

In his picture Autumn day. Sokolniki Levitan depicted an alley strewn with fallen leaves along which a young woman in black is walking. In this landscape, Levitan showed all the beauty of Russian autumn. It highlights several main motives. In the painting, the artist combines play of gold and opal shades of fallen leaves, which turn into gloomy, dark green colors of pine needles. The gloomy grayish sky contrasts expressively with the road, which contains almost all the variety of shades and colors of the picture. All this creates a thoughtful, gloomy image. In it, as it were, the lyrics of Russian poetry are read. Autumn day. Sokolniki? one of the few paintings by Levitan, which contains deep meaning and an image of thoughtfulness and loneliness. And the image of a lonely, sad woman, very expressively combined with the gloomy image of the landscape, enhances general impression from the picture. I really liked this picture.

Autumn mood, the mysterious depth of the forest, the harmony of nature and a woman - we see all this in the painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki by artist Isaac Levitan. What mood did the famous author want to convey?

How was the painting created?

Levitan painted mostly landscapes. The picture "Autumn day. Sokolniki" he wrote when he lived in the countryside. At that moment, he felt loneliness, longing, which he conveyed in all the colors of autumn. When Isaac Levitan showed the picture to his friend Nikolai Chekhov, he advised the artist to finish painting a woman walking along the road, and not only advised, but also persuaded him to do it. So, in the beautiful autumn landscape of Levitan, a charming young woman appeared, already completed by Chekhov.

Painting «Autumn day. Sokolniki"

Whether the picture has benefited from this is to be judged by connoisseurs of this work.

The painting measures 63.5 by 50 cm.

Description of the picture

In his painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki ”Isaac Levitan conveyed a wonderful Russian autumn. Winding path goes into the distance, showered autumn leaves. Centuries-old trees frame the road, mysteriously bending over it, all whispering the mysterious song of autumn; at the same time, young trees with golden crowns convey the sound of a breeze that drives the clouds hanging over the road. Clouds are flying somewhere, driving away sad, disturbing thoughts. On the side of the road there is a lonely shop, as if waiting for a traveler who wants to sit down and take a break, think, maybe reflect on life or dream.

Lonely on the way a woman is walking in a black dress. She seems to personify sadness, loneliness, sadness, thoughtfulness, evokes philosophical thoughts. It harmonizes with the deep mood of the landscape itself, complementing it with its own image and at the same time dissonant with it. Or maybe it is she who will stop near the bench, sit down and think about how she can continue to go along the path of life. But we can only guess about this.

With the help of blurry colors, the artist conveyed the silence of the park, autumn dampness, sadness, beauty, melancholy, sadness. Looking at the picture, you can even smell the leaves and the rustle of the wind, catch the movement of the clouds, which seem to be about to rain.

Painting «Autumn day. Sokolniki became calling card young artist Levitan. It was exhibited at the student opening day and attracted the attention of connoisseurs, artists, and spectators. Tretyakov, seeing the picture, was impressed and wanted to buy it. So the picture ended up in his gallery and became its pearl. It was with this picture that Pavel Tretyakov's gallery began.

In this picture, the author not only depicted the autumn landscape, but conveyed his mood and feelings. And he painted so skillfully that the viewer could feel and understand him. She became an inspiration for musicians and writers who wrote poetry, composed melodies, conveying all the colors of the mood, the range of feelings, the charm of autumn.

Artist, Isaac Levitan - the history of the painting "Autumn Day. Sokolniki"

Our reference: Levitan's painting "Autumn Day. Sokolniki" was painted in 1879, is in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Isaac Ilyich Levitan was born on August 18, 1860 (August 30, according to a new style) in the Kibarty settlement, near the Verzhbolovo station, Suwalki province, in the family of a railway employee. Painted over 1000 paintings. Date of death: July 22 (August 4), 1900 (aged 39).

Turns out!

"Autumn Day. Sokolniki" is the only landscape by Isaac Levitan where a person is present, and this person was written not by Levitan but by Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov (1858-1889), brother of the well-known Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. After that, people never appeared on his canvases. They were replaced by forests and pastures, foggy floods and impoverished huts of Russia, mute and lonely, as a person was mute and lonely at that time.

How did Levitan meet Chekhov?

Levitan left the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture without a diploma and a livelihood. There was no money at all. In April 1885, Isaac Levitan settled near Babkin, in the remote village of Maksimovka. The Chekhov family visited the Kiselev estate in Babkino. Levitan met A.P. Chekhov, with whom his friendship continued throughout his life. Improved in the mid-1880s financial situation artist. However, a hungry childhood, a restless life, hard work affected his health - his heart disease sharply worsened. A trip to the Crimea in 1886 strengthened Levitan's forces. Upon his return from the Crimea, Isaac Levitan organizes an exhibition of fifty landscapes.

In 1879, the police evicted Levitan from Moscow to the summer cottage Saltykovka. A tsarist decree was issued forbidding Jews to live in the "original Russian capital." Levitan was eighteen at the time. Levitan later recalled the summer in Saltykovka as the most difficult in his life. There was intense heat. Almost every day thunderstorms covered the sky, thunder grumbled, dry weeds rustled under the windows from the wind, but not a drop of rain fell. The twilight was especially poignant. Lights were turned on on the balcony of the neighboring dacha. Nocturnal butterflies fluttered in clouds against the lamp-glasses. Balls clattered on the croquet ground. The schoolboys and girls fooled around and quarreled, finishing the game, and then, late in the evening, female voice sang a sad romance in the garden:

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That was the time when the poems of Polonsky, Maikov and Apukhtin were known better than simple Pushkin melodies, and Levitan did not even know that the words of this romance belonged to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

My voice is for you and gentle and languid
The late silence of the dark night disturbs.
Near my bed is a sad candle
Lit; my poems, merging and murmuring,
Flow, streams of love, flow, full of you.
In the darkness your eyes shine before me,
They smile at me, and I hear sounds:
My friend, my gentle friend... love... yours... yours!...

A.S. Pushkin.

He listened in the evenings from behind the fence to the singing of a stranger, he still remembered
one romance about how "love sobbed".
He wanted to see the woman who sang so loudly and sadly, to see
girls who played croquet, and schoolboys who drove with victorious cries
wooden balls to the canvas itself railway. He wanted to drink
tea from clean glasses on the balcony, touch a slice of lemon with a spoon, wait a long time,
while a transparent thread of apricot jam drains from the same spoon. To him
I wanted to laugh and fool around, play burners, sing until midnight, run around
on giant steps and listen to the excited whispers of schoolchildren about the writer
Garshin, who wrote the story "Four Days", banned by censors. He wanted
look into the eyes of a singing woman - the eyes of the singing are always half-closed and full
sad beauty.
But Levitan was poor, almost a beggar. The checkered jacket was completely worn out.
The young man grew out of it. Hands smeared oil paint, sticking out of the sleeves,
like bird paws. All summer Levitan walked barefoot. Where was in such an outfit
appear in front of cheerful summer residents!
And Levitan was hiding. He took a boat, swam on it into the reeds on
dacha pond and wrote sketches - no one bothered him in the boat.
It was more dangerous to write sketches in the forest or in the fields. Here it was possible
to come across the bright umbrella of a dandy, reading Albov's book in the shade of birches,
or the governess clucking over her brood of children. And no one could despise
poverty is as insulting as a governess.
Levitan hid from summer residents, yearned for the night singer and wrote sketches.
He completely forgot that at home, at the School of Painting and Sculpture, Savrasov
read him the glory of Corot, and comrades - the Korovin brothers and Nikolai Chekhov - everyone
once they started arguing over his paintings about the charms of a real Russian landscape.
Future Glory Koro was drowning without a trace in resentment at life, at her tattered elbows and
worn out soles.
Levitan wrote a lot in the air that summer. That's what Savrasov said. somehow
in the spring, Savrasov came to the workshop on Myasnitskaya drunk, knocked out in his hearts
dusty window and hurt his hand.
- What are you writing! he shouted in a weeping voice, wiping his dirty nose
handkerchief blood. -Tobacco smoke? Manure? Gray porridge?
Clouds were rushing past the broken window, the sun lay in hot spots on
domes, and abundant fluff flew from dandelions - at that time all Moscow
yards were overgrown with dandelions.
“Drive the sun on the canvas,” Savrasov shouted, and already at the door
the old watchman looked disapprovingly - " Devilry". - Spring
missed the heat! The snow melted, ran along the ravines with cold water - why not
I saw it on your sketches? The lindens were blooming, the rains were such as if not
water, and silver poured from the sky - where is all this on your canvases? shame and
nonsense!

From the time of this cruel dressing, Levitan began to work in the air.
At first it was difficult for him to get used to the new sensation of colors. What's in
smoky rooms seemed bright and clean, in the air incomprehensible
way withered, covered with a muddy coating.
Levitan strove to write in such a way that air was felt in his paintings,
embracing with its transparency every blade of grass, every leaf and haystack. All
all around seemed to be immersed in something calm, blue and brilliant. Levitan
called it air. But it wasn't the same air as it is
appears to us. We breathe it, we feel its smell, cold or warmth.
Levitan, on the other hand, felt it as a boundless environment of a transparent substance, which
gave such a captivating softness to his canvases.

Summer is over. Rarely was the voice of a stranger heard. Somehow in the twilight
Levitan met a young woman at the gate of his house. Her narrow arms turned white
from under the black lace. The sleeves of the dress were trimmed with lace. soft cloud
covered the sky. It was raining infrequently. The flowers in the front gardens smelled bitter. On
railroad arrows lit lanterns.

The stranger stood at the gate and tried to open a small umbrella, but he
did not open. At last it opened, and the rain rustled against its silken
top. The stranger walked slowly towards the station. Levitan did not see her face - it
was covered with an umbrella. She also did not see Levitan's face, she only noticed
his bare dirty feet and raised the umbrella so as not to catch Levitan. IN
In the wrong light he saw a pale face. It seemed familiar to him
beautiful.
Levitan returned to his closet and lay down. The candle was fuming, the rain was buzzing,
stations wept drunk. Longing for maternal, sisterly, female love
has since entered the heart and did not leave Levitan until the last days of his life.
In the same autumn, Levitan wrote "Autumn Day in Sokolniki". It was
his first picture, where gray and golden autumn, sad, as then
Russian life, like the life of Levitan himself, breathed cautiously from the canvas
warmth and ached in the hearts of the audience.
Along the path of Sokolniki Park, along the heaps of fallen leaves, a young
the woman in black is the stranger whose voice Levitan could not forget.
"My voice for you is both gentle and languid ..." She was alone among the autumn
groves, and this loneliness surrounded her with a feeling of sadness and thoughtfulness.

The painting "Autumn Day. Sokolniki" was noticed by the audience and received, perhaps, the highest rating possible at that time - it was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov, the founder of the famous State Tretyakov Gallery, a sensitive lover of landscape painting, who placed above all not the "beauty of nature", but the soul, unity of poetry and truth. Subsequently, Tretyakov no longer let Levitan out of his field of vision, and for a rare year did not acquire new works from him for his collection. The painting "Autumn Day. Sokolniki" is one of Tretyakov's pearls!

Konstantin Paustovsky "Isaac Levitan"

BIOGRAPHY of Isaac Levitan:

The fate of Isaac Ilyich Levitan was sad and happy. Sad - because, as often happened with the poets and artists of Russia, he was given a short life span, moreover, in less than forty years of his life, he experienced the hardships of poverty, homeless orphanhood, national humiliation, discord with unfair, abnormal reality. Happy - because if, as L. N. Tolstoy said, the basis of human happiness is the ability to "be with nature, see it, talk with it", then Levitan, like few people, was given the opportunity to comprehend the happiness of "talking" with nature, proximity to her. He also knew the joy of recognition, understanding of his creative aspirations by his contemporaries, friendship with the best of them.

The life of Isaac Ilyich Levitan ended prematurely at the very turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; he, as it were, summed up in his work many of the best features of Russian art of the last century.

Levitan painted about a thousand paintings, sketches, drawings, sketches in less than a quarter of a century.

The happiness of the artist, who sang his song, who managed to talk alone with the landscape, remained with him and was given to people.

Contemporaries left many confessions that it was thanks to Levitan native nature"appeared before us as something new and at the same time very close ... dear and dear." The backyards of an ordinary village, a group of bushes by a stream, two barges by the banks of a wide river, or a group of yellowed autumn birches - everything turned under his brush into paintings full of poetic mood and, looking at them, we felt that this is what we had always seen, but didn't seem to notice."

N. Benois recalled that "only with the advent of Levitan's paintings" did he believe in the beauty of Russian nature, and not in "beauty". "It turned out that the cold arch of her sky is beautiful, her twilight is beautiful ... the scarlet glow of the setting sun, and the brown, spring rivers ... all the relationships of her special colors are beautiful ... All lines are beautiful, even the most calm and simple."

Most famous works Levitan, Isaac Ilyich.

Autumn day. Falconers (1879)
Evening on the Volga (1888, Tretyakov Gallery)
Evening. Golden Reach (1889, Tretyakov gallery)
Golden autumn. Slobodka (1889, Russian Museum)
Birch Grove(1889, Tretyakov gallery)
After the rain. Ples (1889, Tretyakov Gallery)
At the pool (1892, Tretyakov Gallery)
Vladimirka (1892, Tretyakov gallery)
Above eternal rest (1894, Tretyakov Gallery). Collective image. Lake view used. Ostrovno and view from Krasilnikova Gorka to Lake Udomlya, Tverskaya Gubernia.
March (1895, Tretyakov Gallery). Type of mustache "Hill" Turchaninov I. N. near the village. Ostrovno. Tverskaya lips.
Autumn. Manor. (1894, Omsk Museum). Type of mustache "Gorka" Turchaninov near the village. Ostrovno. Tverskaya lips.
Spring - big water(1896-1897, Tretyakov Gallery). View of the river Syezha in the Tver province.
Golden Autumn (1895, Tretyakov Gallery). River Syezha near the mouth. "Slide". Tverskaya lips.
Nenyufary (1895, Tretyakov Gallery). Landscape on the lake. Island at the mouth. "Slide". Tverskaya lips.
Autumn landscape with the church (1893-1895, Tretyakov Gallery). Church in the village Ostrovno. Tverskaya lips.
Lake Ostrovno (1894-1895, village Melikhovo). Landscape from the mustache. Slide. Tverskaya lips.
Autumn landscape with a church (1893-1895, Russian Museum). Church in the village Island from the mustache. Ostrovno (Ushakov). Tverskaya lips.
The last rays of the sun Last days autumn) (1899, Tretyakov Gallery). Entrance to the village of Petrova Gora. Tverskaya lips.
Twilight. Haystacks (1899, Tretyakov Gallery)
Twilight (1900, Tretyakov Gallery)
Lake. Rus. (1899-1900, Russian Museum)

What do other sources write about the painting "Autumn Day. Sokolniki"?

Leaves fall in the garden
Couple circling after couple
Lonely I wander
Through the foliage in the old alley,
In the heart - a new love,
And I want to answer
Heart songs - and again
Carefree happiness to meet.
Why does the soul hurt?
Who is sad, pitying me?
The wind moans and dusts
Along the birch alley
Tears fill my heart,
And, circling in the garden gloomy,
yellow leaves fly
With sad noise!

I.A. Bunin. Leaves are falling in the garden...

Painting Autumn day. Sokolniki (1879, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) is evidence of Levitan's assimilation of poetic traditions and achievements of the Russian and European landscape and the originality of his lyrical gift. Having captured the alley of the old park strewn with fallen leaves, along which a graceful young woman in black walks quietly (her school friend Nikolai Chekhov, the writer’s brother helped Levitan to paint her), the artist filled the picture with elegiac and sad feelings of autumn withering and human loneliness. A smoothly curving alley, framing it with thin yellowed maples and dark tall coniferous trees, a humid haze of air - everything in the picture "participates" in the creation of a penetrating and integral "musical" figurative structure. The clouds floating across the cloudy sky are wonderfully written. The picture was noticed by the audience and received, perhaps, the highest possible rating at that time - it was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov, a sensitive lover of landscape painting, who placed above all in it not “beauty”, but the soul, the unity of poetry and truth. Vladimir Petrov.

Autumn rainy, but quiet and thoughtful day. Large pines have raised their peaks high into the sky, and next to them on the sides of the alley are small, recently planted maples in golden autumn dress. The alley goes far inland, slightly bending, as if drawing our gaze there. And right at us, in the opposite direction, a pensive female figure in a dark dress is slowly moving.

Levitan strives to convey the humidity of the air of a rainy autumn day: the distance melts in a haze, the air is felt both in the sky and in bluish tones below, under large trees, and in the blurring of the outlines of tree trunks and crowns. The overall muted color scheme of the painting is built on the combination of the soft dark green of the pines with the gray sky, the blue tones below them and in contrast with the warm yellow of the maples and their fallen leaves on the path. Airiness, that is, the image of the atmosphere, plays a crucial role in conveying the state and emotional expressiveness of the landscape, its autumn dampness and silence.

Contrasting the vastness of the sky and the height of the pines with a relatively small figure makes her so lonely in this deserted park. The image is imbued with dynamics: the path runs away into the distance, clouds rush across the sky, the figure moves towards us, the yellow leaves, just swept to the edges of the path, seem to rustle, and the disheveled tops of the pine trees sway in the sky. A.A. Fedorov-Davydov

An essay based on a painting by student 8A Kochanova Natalia. In his picture Autumn day. Sokolniki Levitan depicted an alley strewn with fallen leaves along which a young woman in black is walking. In this landscape, Levitan showed all the beauty of Russian autumn. It highlights several main motives. In the painting, the artist combines play of gold and opal shades of fallen leaves, which turn into gloomy, dark green colors of pine needles. The gloomy grayish sky contrasts expressively with the road, which contains almost all the variety of shades and colors of the picture. All this creates a thoughtful, gloomy image. In it, as it were, the lyrics of Russian poetry are read. Autumn day. Sokolniki? one of the few paintings by Levitan, which contains a deep meaning and image of thoughtfulness and loneliness. And the image of a lonely, sad woman, very expressively combined with the gloomy image of the landscape, enhances the overall impression of the picture. I really liked this picture.

CHEKHOV AND LEVITAN The story of one painting:

In 1879, an unheard-of event took place at the school on Myasnitskaya: 18-year-old Levitan, the favorite student of the captious old Savrasov, painted a masterful painting - Autumn Day. Sokolniki. He was the first to see this painting. closest friend Nikolay Chekhov.

I'll introduce you to my friend somehow, - I said to Anton the other day, referring to Levitan. - You must like him. Such a thin, somewhat sickly look, but proud! Ooo! An exceptionally handsome face. Her hair is black, curly, and her eyes are so sad and big. His poverty defies description: he spends the night secretly at the school, hiding from the furious watchman, or walks around acquaintances ... And a talent! The whole school expects a lot from him, unless, of course, he dies of starvation ... He is always dressed in God knows what: a jacket with a patch all over his back, thin props from a cunning market on his legs and, you see, rags only set off his innate artistry. You somehow remind each other ... However, you will see for yourself.

So, when I squeezed into Levitan's closet, he listened with interest to the news about the arrival of his brother, and then began to show his summer work. His success has been impressive. Etudes - one is better than the other.

Yes, you worked hard, what is there, unlike me ... Etudes are shining, you caught the sun, definitely. It's not fake. Well, you see, friend, isn't it time for you to move on to nail things?

Levitan smiled mysteriously in response to my words, climbed into a dark corner, rummaged there and put a rather large canvas in front of me. It was that autumn day. Sokolniki, from which, in fact, the list of famous creations of Levitan begins. Who does not remember: an alley in Sokolniki Park, tall pines, a rainy sky in clouds, fallen leaves ... that's all! For a long time I was silent. How did he manage to get used to the most ordinary landscape with such force and convey the sadness and thoughtfulness of Russian autumn through a deserted alley and a whining sky! Witchcraft!

At first, I didn’t want to show it… I don’t know if I managed to convey the dreary feelings of loneliness… In the summer, in Saltykovka, summer residents threw all kinds of hurtful words, called a ragamuffin, ordered not to hang around under the windows ... In the evening everyone had fun, but I didn’t know what to do with myself, avoided everyone. A woman was singing in the garden. I leaned against the fence and listened. She was probably young, beautiful, how could I approach her to speak? This is not for me. I am an outcast ... - Levitan fell silent dejectedly.

And it seemed to me that something was missing in his picture ...

A female figure, that's what's missing! Let alone walk through the autumn park, slender, attractive, in a long black dress ... I managed to convince Levitan, he reluctantly agreed, I added the figure of a woman.

Painting Autumn day. Sokolniki was shown at the second student exhibition. As usual, all of Moscow came to the vernissage. My brother Anton and I were also there (by that time he had become a medical student). And here is Levitan himself, pale and fussy with excitement. He glanced at his landscape, which hung across three halls. Before the Autumn Day, people crowded all the time. Anton offered to go to the central hall of the exhibition, to compare other paintings with Levitan's canvas, but Isaac resisted. We left him, God be with him, let him worry. Soon Savrasov appeared at the exhibition. Shaking his beard, stepping with a flourish, so that the floorboards cracked, he walked through the halls like a hurricane.

Disgrace, unit! Written with mud, not paint! And full of flies! Craft! Savrasov, an academician of painting, does not understand anything, or he understands a lot, and an artist should keep such rubbish under a closet, close tubs of cucumbers! Can't be dragged to White light! Shame! And bullshit, bullshit!!!

Clumsy, huge in the shoulders, he moved from hall to hall, accompanied by hostile glances of offended students, and, Furthermore, professors, from whose workshops bad things came out. Many in the school did not like Savrasov for his directness and temper.

Autumn day. I know. I recognize the alley, wild birds moved south. Cats scratch at the heart. There are many paintings in the exhibition, but the soul is one. Here she is, hearty. Mmm... Five! Excuse me, excuse me, with a minus, with two, but where is Isaac ?! Why did he stick an unnecessary woman into the landscape ?! Where is he?! Where is he?!!!

What is it, Anton? I see that Savrasov has completely charmed you.

Ha ha, really… Wonderful, wonderful, lively, hot, smart. Well, Isaac, you're in luck. Such a mentor! When I watched his Rooks who arrived, I involuntarily thought that only a remarkable person, a clever one, could write such a subtle thing, and he was not mistaken. Glad you dragged me to vernissage. One Savrasov is worth something! How he, how he smashed all sorts of rubbish!

By evening, when the audience subsided, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov came to the exhibition. He examined the paintings meticulously, without haste. The disciples fell silent, watching the great collector the best paintings national painting. Even famous artists dreamed of selling a painting to his gallery. When Tretyakov approached Autumn day Levitan shuddered. But Tretyakov, glancing at the canvas, went on. Isaac did not know how to hide his feelings, he nervously walked around the hall. Well, that's even easier. Now at least everything is clear. Pavel Mikhailovich knows a lot, he understands, he understands...

Mmmm... Poor thing, completely exhausted, it's a shame, it's a shame! I put so many feelings, but I didn’t make an impression ...

Yes-ah-ah ... Listen, Nikolai, let's take him to our place today?

Wonderful!

We will drink tea, Masha and her friends will cheer, the landscape painter will depart little by little, again he will believe in himself.

Very good!

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Tretyakov again before the autumn day, returned! I think it sucks! Levitan's name is! Need to go! Quicker! Isaac! Isaac!

Well in good luck.

Since then have a good day Several years have passed since Tretyakov bought the first painting by Isaac Ilyich Levitan. The voices of envious people gradually fell silent, it became obvious that the incident at the student exhibition was not a misunderstanding, that the exceptional talent of the young landscape painter is growing stronger every day. Levitan worked a lot near Moscow, everyday world appeared on his canvases and cardboards. Familiar to all the roads that densely entwine all of Russia, forest edges, clouds, slopes, slow rivers, but there was something unusually fresh in all this, something of its own, and this stopped attention. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, with whom the artist had an ever stronger friendship, even came up with a well-aimed word - "levitanist". He wrote in letters: "Nature here is much more levitational than yours." The fame of the Artist grew, but it was still difficult for him to live.