Brief description of the painting and Plastov Harvest. Lesson on speech development in the Russian language "Working on an essay based on painting A

Probably not every person in his life could directly observe the harvesting of bread and how difficult this delicious product ends up on our table. Plastov’s painting “Harvest”, as well as “Haymaking”, written in 1945, tell us about everyday life ordinary people, collective farmers busy in the fields harvesting crops.

For these paintings about the summer harvest Arkady Plastov was awarded Stalin Prize that at that time for Soviet artist was simply an unattainable peak.

In the painting “Harvest,” the artist depicted a short rest, during which the family had dinner. The wheat harvest is cut and swept into large stacks. Some haystacks have already been loaded onto chaises, which are visible on the horizon. You can also see huge haystacks there, waiting their turn to go to the lectern.

The grandfather, who also went to the harvest along with his teenage grandchildren, of course, had not yet had time to compress so much. An elderly man’s strength is no longer what it was in his youth, and he also feels sorry for his grandchildren. It’s not easy for them, because their father has not yet returned from the front, and the entire burden of difficult peasant labor has fallen on the shoulders of such old people and teenagers. But in their hearts there lives the hope that everything will be fine, if only the father would return... “Then it would be easier for the mother,” the children think. For an incredibly long four years, the village that sent the men to the front provided the country and the front with food. And now the long-awaited Victory Day has come, but the soldiers’ journey home to their families is still so long. And not all of them will knock on the doors of their home, where people still continue to wait for them, no matter what.

Grandfather and grandchildren slowly eat simple peasant food, scooping with painted wooden spoons thick porridge from the pan. Cucumbers are laid out on a scarf. One of the boys drinks water from a clay jug, in which the water remains cool for a long time. A yard dog sits quietly nearby, ears raised, patiently waiting for a handout. The figure of a bearded, gray-haired old man is depicted very colorfully. While working, his hair became very disheveled. He holds a small piece in his large, tired hands rye bread and it is clear to the audience that he only occasionally takes a bite from it, trying to make sure there is enough food for the guys.

Although the children are wearing light clothing, the old man has a worn brown jacket draped over his shoulders. Perhaps he is not completely healthy and therefore is afraid of catching a cold and getting sick. Then it will be even more difficult for the family to manage the household.

Plastov depicts a field stretching from edge to edge, where almost all the wheat has already been harvested and only the stubble colors it yellow-green. Plastov always preferred to use colors and shades that most accurately characterized the theme and conveyed his attitude to the depicted event.

The tools of this peasant family are visible next to the hay. As you can see, the grandfather worked with a scythe, which he leaned against a haystack during the rest period, and the boys with sickles. A wooden rake is also visible in the picture. Perhaps the girl was raking up the ears of corn with them.

Currently, the painting "Harvest" is on display at the State Tretyakov Gallery, evokes a light sadness from contemplating the endless expanses of fields and the modest meal of peasants after wartime.

After death famous artist Plastov left more than thousands of works, which he left to his descendants. But, unfortunately, in 1931 a tragedy occurred, and many of Arkady Alexandrovich’s paintings were lost in a fire, but this did not stop the artist, and he continued his work, creating new brilliant ones picturesque masterpieces. And if before this incident, which made him look at the artist’s world differently, Plastov described peasant Rus', but more superficially, then after the fire he begins to delve deeply into what he depicted. That is why all his paintings are about the life of peasants, completely ordinary people. But this life is already a thing of the past, and now there is no return to it. And now these interesting pictures from the past began to come to life on Plastov’s canvases.

One of Plastov’s paintings shows the rest of a family working all day in the field to reap the harvest. The canvas “Harvest” conveys the atmosphere of that day when everyone is busy with work. It is already clear in the Plastov picture that all the wheat in the fields has been cut down, so part of the work has already been done, but still the struggle for the harvest, for its safety, continues. On the canvas you can see that they have already managed to sweep the wheat into sheaves, and in some places there are even haystacks. Now the peasants have to take it all to the harvest so that the harvest does not go to waste. In the distance you can see carts drawn by horses, hurrying to the current. They had already loaded themselves with sheaves. And the same part of the wheat harvest, which has yet to be exported, is neatly stacked in heaps on the field and can be seen throughout the field.

But such work requires a lot of energy, so you need to have lunch. The artist depicts just such a time when poor people, peasants, decide to have a little lunch. Their lunch is not luxurious and very simple. In one cup there is food for both the girl and the grandfather. Most likely, the girl brought lunch to her grandfather. But he, realizing how meager a poor man’s lunch is and that children always want to eat, decided to offer his granddaughter food too. And she didn’t refuse. But not only the girl eats from the same bowl, but also the boys, who, most likely, helped the old man in the field and were also quite hungry. Having had a little snack, one of the boys depicted in Plastov’s painting decides to drink milk. The milk will remain cool in the jug for a long time, which is why it will seem so life-giving to people who work in the fields at such a time.

Not far from the peasants having lunch sits a dog who calmly watches how the people are having lunch. He is also hungry, but has already been accustomed to the fact that his lunch will come after the hard workers have eaten, so he tries to remain calm and wait, but he is not very good at it. It is clear that the dog is very young, so from time to time he barks to remind those who are eating that he is also here and waiting for his share of the food.

To better depict the people and what class they belong to, the artist drew their clothes in detail. So, the old man is dressed in simple and simple clothes. He is wearing shoes, because walking on the field is dangerous: you can get your feet pinched. He has gray beard and the same gray and thick hair that was disheveled in different sides. He worked hard to earn something for his family, so he has no time to think about how he looks. But what attracts most on Plastov’s canvas are the peasant’s hands, large and worn out.

At the moment when the artist captured him, he simply holds a small piece of black bread, but treats it with care, because he knows how expensive it is to get. In the other hand of the old man is a wooden spoon, which in Rus' they usually always carried with them in the hope of eating somewhere. He is dressed in a shirt and pants blue. A girl sat opposite him, so you can see that her hair is long and carefully braided into two small braids. She covered her head, as was customary in those days, with a scarf. She is wearing a bright red skirt and socks. She also did not come to the field barefoot, but had boots on her feet.

The boys in the Plastov painting are dressed more simply. Both of them are wearing simple white and yellow canvas shirts, dark-colored trousers so that dust is not visible on them. Wherever you look at the picture, everywhere around central images field with wheat. Everything is painted yellow, which matches the wheat and its remains. Therefore, people sat down to rest and have a snack under one of these sheaves, in order to somehow shelter from the scorching rays of the sun. They threw their tools nearby. The guys worked with sickles: first, bending down, they cut off the ears of grain right to the very root, and then, taking a rake, raked everything thoroughly so as not to miss a single ear of grain. By the way, no one works in the field like that anymore. And then this work was very hard. But the guys work with rakes and sickles, but the old man’s tool is different: he mows wheat. She stands leaning against a haystack.

Plastov’s painting perfectly shows a time that was quite recently, but which is gone forever. A bright and wonderful feeling arises in the soul when you look at the vastness of Russian fields and understand how beautiful the Russian land is.

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Lesson topic: “R.r. No. 13. Essay – description of A. Plastov’s painting “Harvest” ».

Objective of the lesson:- introduce the work of the artist A.A. Plastov; continue to learn how to make a plan, interest in creating your own text; desire for speech self-improvement; construct an oral statement using an art history text and an artist’s painting; develop the ability to analyze a work of painting and argue for your answer, draw conclusions; develop creativity students; develop spelling vigilance, memory, attention, imagination.

Planned results:
subject: construct an oral statement using an art history text and an artist’s painting, format written speech in accordance with literary norms.

meta-subject: organize your work, work with text, conduct self-assessment, correct your work.

personal: sufficient volume vocabulary and acquired grammatical means for the free expression of thoughts and feelings when creating text in writing.

Lesson type. Speech development lesson.

Equipment: Computer, visual demonstration material, task cards, slide presentation.

Progress of the lesson.

Organizational moment.

The lesson begins.

He'll do well, guys.

Try to understand everything

Learn to reveal secrets,

Give us complete answers

And don't yawn in class!

Formulating the topic, task and purpose of the lesson. Slide No. 2, No. 3

III. Preparing students for active perception of the picture.

Teacher. You answered correctly. Today we have a lesson in speech development. Students write down in their notebooks the number, class work, topic of the lesson: Essay - description based on a painting by A.A. Plastov

"Harvest" Slide No. 1

Quite recently we already wrote an essay, but using key words.

Remember what picture we described?

Was it easy to describe this picture? Indeed, there were few difficulties, because... you used reference words and cards to help you form sentences.

Today we have to open amazing world Russian painting. We will get acquainted with the work of the outstanding Russian painter A. Plastov and see his paintings.

Paul Gauguin said that paintings are a real treasure human culture. Do you agree with this statement?

Today we have to write an essay on a painting. But first, I suggest you become real scientists, into whose hands a priceless creation of a Russian artist has fallen. You and I will become pioneers who will try to reveal the secret of painting.

How did the masters manage to create their masterpieces? What techniques do artists use when creating their paintings?

Are you ready, gentlemen, scientists for discoveries? Then let's get started.

Today your task is more difficult. You will describe the picture without reference words, that is, using the experience of the last lesson, you will choose the words yourself.

Let's remember what type of speech you will use in your essay

(description).

IV. Working on a painting

a) Conversation about the artist A.A. Plastov (introduction to the artist’s work)

Our textbook will help you get acquainted with the life and work of another famous Russian artist, Arkady Aleksandrovich Plastov. Open page 89, read in the “This is interesting” section short article about this artist. Read by Marina L.

Now look at the screen. Slide number 5

Before you is a portrait of the artist. Pay attention to his eyes. They say: “Eyes are the mirror of a person’s soul. His eyes are kind and attentive." Only truly kind person may love children. Most of the artist lived his life in the village, observing the difficult life rural residents. His paintings reveal beauty and strength native land, express admiration for the hard worker. Plastov’s favorite heroes are village children. They are present in almost every one of his paintings. (“First Snow”, Tractor Drivers’ Dinner”, “In the Village”,

“The fascist flew by” and many others. Slide No. 6, No. 7

Arkady Alexandrovich left us a legacy large number paintings His paintings reflect life common man. And all together they add up to a great chronicle of the country, difficult and heroic.

Fizminutka

“Our rest is a physical education minute,
Take your seats.
Once - they sat down, twice - they stood up,
Everyone raised their hands up.
Sat down, stood up, sat down, stood up
It’s as if they became Vanka-stand up,
And then they started galloping,
Like my bouncy ball.

b) Students examining a reproduction of the painting “Harvest”Slide No. 8

The painting “Harvest,” which we will work on today, was created by Plastov in 1945, a very important year for the country. What year is this?

This a picture about the bitter price of wartime bread. In every piece of bread that went to the front, lived the warmth of children's and old men's hands who sowed and grew grain all these long war years. This is the sad face of war. There are no obvious signs of war on this canvas, but we can feel it through the description of the painting. In the foreground elderly man with small children. The question immediately arises as to why such hard work is carried out by an old man who needs to rest for a long time, and by children who are unable to bear this work. Yes because everyone is adults strong men are at the front, defending their homeland. So those who remain are plowing, sowing, and mowing: old people and young children. The artist, like a magician, showed us small episode from that life far from us. And we will be able to feel both a feeling of bitterness and a sense of pride in our great country.

c) “Immersion in the picture”(during the analysis of the picture, students write down answers in their notebooks)

Teacher. Having become acquainted with the life and work of the great painter Arkady Plastov, let's be transported to the world of his painting “Harvest”.

Reproduction of this painting.

What first caught your attention?

Take a closer look at the picture. Who did the artist depict in the foreground?

(in the foreground of the picture we see a group of people. This is an old collective farmer and three children. They are having lunch, resting after hard work)

Describe the old man, what is he like? (bearded, beard almost completely white, gray, thick hair is not combed) Slide No. 9

Pay attention to the old man's hands. The artist carefully painted his calloused, darkened from work, callosal hands, heavy, tired hands. They are big, big. In one hand the old man holds a piece of black bread, and in the other a wooden spoon, with which he carefully slurps simple food from a reddish clay pot. The old man threw an old dark brown coat over his shoulders, with a blue coat visible underneath canvas shirt.. On his feet are old broken shoes.

Opposite him are three children. Let's talk about the girl first, because she is closer to us. What is she wearing, what is she doing? (The girl’s head is covered and tied with a white chintz scarf, from under which two pigtails come out. A dark blouse, a red dress, stockings on her legs tucked under her and cherry-colored boots. She also has a spoon in her hand Slide No. 10

What can you say about the boys? These are probably her brothers. (next to the girl sits her brother, a red-haired, curly-haired boy. He hasn’t had his hair cut for a long time: either there is no time, or maybe there is no one to put his head in order. And again I remember:

There is a war, and you never know where the mother of these children is. The boy is also focused on food, like all his relatives.

What can you say about the second guy? (The boy greedily drinks water from an earthenware jug, or maybe milk. Apparently he is very tired and thirsty, he doesn’t even have time to eat. Both are dressed simply - in shirts, yellow and white, and dark pants.).

What can you say about the dog? Slide No. 11

(the dog looks intently at the diners, impatiently waiting for him to get a piece)

10.What is to the left of the diners? (To the left of the diners is a large, just collected stack, on which scythes and rakes are piled). What kind of food does the family have? (cucumbers, black bread, stew are laid out on a scarf. Simple peasant food). Slide No. 12

11. What is shown in the background. (There is an endless field, the same huge haystacks. Above all this rises a gray pre-storm sky. Apparently, because of the bad weather, the grandfather and grandchildren were in a hurry to harvest the crops).

12. Remember from lessons fine arts about cold and warm colors. Which ones (warm or cold) did the artist use in the painting? (Warm - red dress, red-brown jug, orange - red hair, a lot of yellow,

They make the picture bright and light; cold ones - green cucumbers, a blue shirt, a brown coat - create a feeling of bitterness. (not much of this color).

13. What mood do we get when looking at the picture? How did you feel?

She pleases with her bright colors, the beauty of the depicted nature. Summer is especially attractive - the time of year when all nature blooms. The canvas exudes deep, sincere love for people and the Motherland.

d) Vocabulary workSlide No. 13

To write an essay correctly, you need to use words correctly in your speech. To do this, we will find out with you the meaning of some words.

We write in notebooks: dictionary.

The title of the painting is “Harvest”. What do you think this means?

Harvest is the time of harvesting grain (the noun is formed from the verb to reap, that is, to cut off the ears of corn ready for harvesting)

What time of year is the harvest? (late summer, early autumn)

Stack - a pile of tightly packed hay or compressed grains under open air, cylindrical in shape with a rounded top.

A sheaf is a tied bunch of ears of some cereal.

Stubble (stubble) - a compressed field of wheat, the remains of the stalks of compressed cereals on the field (they are very prickly when you step on them with bare feet).

To avoid repetition in the essay, I suggest choosing synonyms for some words.

A. A. Plastov – artist, painter, master, author.

Painting – linen, canvas, work, reproduction

Harvest - harvesting.

When describing a picture, we use adjectives - definitions. What are the names of colorful beautiful definitions (Epithets)

Old man - an elderly man tired from work

The old man's face is bearded, his beard is gray, which indicates his age. Hair on the head - disheveled by the wind, from entangled, hair is not combed

Old man's hands - overworked strong, strong, calloused, calloused, darkened from work. The artist wanted to show us that this old man is hard worker.

The old man's clothes are a dark old coat, brown, a blue shirt and old shoes.

Girl – white, cotton scarf, light, red, scarlet, cherry, boots, boots

Boys:

A) Red-haired, curly hair, uncut.

B) white shirt, dark pants, black

Dog – looks intently, greedily, wants to eat

The predominant color in the picture is yellow, we select synonyms: golden, bright yellow, sunny, straw (remember spelling compound adjectives)

There are shades of brown: light brown, fawn

V. Making a plan

Any essay is a text that obeys rules. To make your story about the painting logical, you need to make a plan.

Let's remember the composition of the essay. Working with the textbook. Pay attention to "Helper's Tips".

What is another name for the beginning of an essay? (Intro)

What can you write about in the introduction? (About the theme of the picture, about general impression from her, about the artist who created her).

The introduction is followed by the main part (What will you write in the main part? The picture and what is depicted in it are described).

In the final part we will write about our impression of the picture. Slide No. 14

Plan (approximate)

I Famous artist– landscape painter Arkady Aleksandrovich Plastov

II Painting "Harvest"

1. Foreground. People depicted in the picture (old man, children)

2. Background of the picture (stacks, tools)

III. My impression of the picture.

I remind you: We start each paragraph of the essay with a red line.

VI. Summing up. Reflection.

Tell us about the mood that appeared in you when looking at Plastov’s painting “Harvest”.

What emotions does this reproduction evoke?

VII. Homework. Make a plan for describing the picture, prepare to write an essay.

Before us is A.A. Plastov’s painting “Harvest”. WITH great love and with skill the artist reveals the beauty and strength of his native land. One feels deep admiration for the hard worker.

The picture is painted in warm colors: a yellow boundless field, golden haystacks, a girl’s red dress. It would seem that nothing portends trouble. And only the pre-storm sky reminds us that everything is happening in the difficult year of 1945.

In the foreground we see an old man and children. Having finished their hard work, they have lunch. The man is already quite elderly, his beard is almost completely white, and his thick hair is not combed. The artist carefully painted his heavy hands, darkened from work. In one he holds a piece of black bread, in the other - a wooden spoon, with which he carefully scoops food from a reddish clay pot. On his shoulders is an old dark brown coat, with a blue canvas shirt visible underneath. There are broken shoes on his feet.

There are kids next to him. The girl is dressed in a dark jacket and a red dress, her head is covered with a white scarf. There is also a spoon in her hand. There are boys next to her. One red-haired man with no haircut is also passionate about food. The other is drinking water greedily, apparently very tired. They are dressed very simply: yellow and white shirts, dark pants. The dog looks at them with curiosity, impatiently waiting for him to get a piece.

Stacks are visible in the background of the picture. Scythes and rakes are piled on top of one of them. Cucumbers, black bread, and stew are laid out on the scarf.

This picture leaves a bright feeling of joy, looking at the endless expanses of fields. The artist managed to convey his love for working people and for the Motherland.

The artist painted the picture in the summer of 1945.

Looking at the picture, the heart is filled with love and peace. The artist used warm color scheme, which does not excite the viewer, but rather attracts attention. Warmth emanates from the painting.

In the very center of the picture, Arkady Aleksandrovich depicted an old man and three children who sat down to have lunch after hard work.

We see an old old man. His hair and beard were white with age. Hair carelessly tousled by the wind. Dressed in a dark blue shirt and pants. The clothes are already worn out, but no one pays attention to it. The old man will also be wearing a brown jacket and worn-out boots. Even though it is the height of summer, the old man is dressed exactly like this. He may be sick, but he needs help harvesting the crops that they were able to save from the Nazis.

Next to him are three children. Two boys and a girl. Presumably these are his grandchildren.

The girl braided her hair in two braids and tied a snow-white scarf on her head. Dressed in a dark jacket and a red skirt. She has reddish boots on her feet.

A red-haired boy sits next to her. He has long thick hair and a green shirt. And behind him kneels a boy in a snow-white shirt and dark pants. He drinks from a jug.

They all sat down to have lunch together. A wooden spoon is prepared for each person. And there is a stew in a red clay pot. At that time it was a delicacy. We also see a couple of cucumbers lying there. A dog sits next to the old man. He carefully looks at the food in the hope that he will get at least a piece. Near the dog there is a small basket with spikelets. Behind them are sheaves of grain that they collected. And on the horizon you can see carts of people, they are collecting these sheaves. The sky is bright - blue color, without a single cloud.

Everyone knows that the hardest summer was in 1945. This is the first summer after the war. The soldiers have not all returned to their homes yet, but people are gradually restoring virgin soil. The famous Russian artist of that time, Arkady Aleksandrovich Plastov, had a special talent. He could paint a canvas at a glance, which one could feel the mood and feelings of the moment captured by the artist. Most of his work has been awarded prizes, but no awards can compare with the viewer’s love for his paintings. One of such works by the author is the painting “Harvest”.

Description of the painting by Plastov Harvest

It's a nice picture. I mean, everything is beautiful, everyone is relaxing. Lunch in nature. The harvest continues here, and this is a break.

The heroes here are old and young, as they say. One grandfather and three children (eight years old - two boys and a girl). Maybe it's his grandchildren (or his grandson and the neighbor's children). And there's a dog on the right. It almost blends in with the color of the rye that I understand they harvest. And it's time! The sky is gray-gray, which means rain is possible, but you need to collect before it rains. But you still need to eat. They didn't even lay anything down. The earth is probably very warm and has warmed up over the summer.

The heroes are sitting around a pot of food. It's probably porridge. They eat with spoons. The dog is waiting for a handout. The grandfather is sitting in a sheepskin coat, he, like old people often, is cold. And, in my opinion, he is wearing bast shoes. He has a beard (now it’s also fashionable)! He still holds a piece of bread in his hand.

A girl with pigtails and, as expected in the village, wearing a headscarf. She has a red skirt and some kind of gray jacket. Behind her is a boy in a light pistachio shirt. And the other one is in white. And this one doesn’t really sit, but stands up and drinks from a jug. There may be milk or water, compote.

This meal is against the backdrop of a haystack; it is even beautifully tied up at the top. All sorts of harvesting tools are immediately thrown down. Like a pitchfork and so on... Some kind of huge “scrapers”, rags for some reason. But everything, of course, was not just dragged into the field. There is a basket behind the grandfather. Apparently they brought lunch in it.

On background more sheaves, a compressed field. Maybe there are still people there. I see a cart with a horse in the distance. Some people too...

Our heroes eat calmly and focused. No talking yet, no pampering. They're all just tired. Backs are hunched. But if they eat here, then they still have to stay here and work in the fields. And it’s already a bit dark!

There is only a light streak on the horizon. Not dawn or sunset, but just where the veil of clouds ends.

I still like the picture. I think that they will be refreshed and will finish everything quickly. They won’t get caught in the rain, they’ll have time to compress everything! What remains to be done?

Description of the mood of the painting Harvest

Plastov - folk singer of Russia

Arkady Plastov belongs to that remarkable galaxy of masters of the brush who left a deep mark on Russian art. His canvases are deeply folk, because they reflect the life of a simple person with all its simple events. And all together they add up to a great chronicle of the country, difficult and heroic. "Peasant Rus'" - main character all his works. And this is not only people, but also nature. She is not just a background that helps reveal the plot, but a full participant in all events. Proof of this is the description of the painting “Harvest” by A. A. Plastov.

History of creation

The canvas was written in 1945, a very important year for the country. Last months war, the passionate expectation of victory and the ongoing pain and bitterness from the fact that many died in its fields and would not return - these were the main moods of that time. All this can be felt through the description of the painting “Harvest” by Plastov, which is located in the famous Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The artist worked on canvas with oil; the dimensions of the canvas are quite large - 166x219 cm. Historical background works is not accidental in the master’s work. Before “The Harvest,” he painted another, strikingly tragic, painting, “The Fascist Has Arrived.” And although there are no obvious signs of war on the canvas we are interested in, it is still conveyed through the general coloring. Let's try to feel it through the description of the painting “Harvest” by Plastov.

Characteristics of the canvas

In the foreground of the picture we see a group of people. This is an old collective farmer and three children. They have lunch after finishing their hard peasant work. The man is already quite elderly, his beard is almost completely white, and his thick hair, tossed by the wind and fussy work, is completely intertwined with a web of gray hair. Immediately, the description of the painting “Harvest” by Plastov prompts the following thoughts: why should an old man, who has already devoted almost his entire life to land and work, instead of resting, have to tear himself apart so unbearably? More on this a little later, but for now let’s continue to look at the hero of the work.

The artist carefully painted his calloused, calloused hands, darkened from work. In one he holds a piece of black bread, in the other - a wooden spoon, with which he carefully slurps a simple meal from a reddish one. The collective farmer has thrown an old, threadbare dark brown coat over his shoulders, with a blue canvas shirt visible under it. On his feet are old broken shoes. Continuing the essay on the painting “The Harvest” by Plastov, let’s pay attention to its other heroes. These are two boys and a girl, boys 10-12 years old. Maybe it's a grandfather with his grandchildren. The girl sitting closest to us is a girl. She tied a white chintz scarf around her head, from under which two braids touchingly emerge and descend onto her thin neck. The forehead is covered by sun-bleached blonde bangs. A dark blouse, a red dress, stockings on her legs tucked under her and cherry-colored boots - that’s all the granddaughter’s simple outfit. She has a spoon in her hand. Leaning slightly towards the pot, she eats a thin peasant stew, which was a real delicacy during the war years. Behind her sits her brother - a red-haired, curly boy. His head had not been touched by scissors for a long time - either there was no time, or maybe there was no one to put his head in order. And again I remember: it’s war, and you never know where the children’s mother is... The little boy is also focused on food, like his family. But the third of the children has fallen to the clay jug and is greedily drinking water or milk. He is wearing an untucked white shirt and dark pants. Apparently, he was very tired and thirsty, he didn’t even have time to eat! The fifth hero of the picture is a common favorite, a funny dog. He gazes at the diners, impatiently waiting for his turn to come.

Painting background

The painting “Harvest” by Plastov is a story about the dramatic battle for the harvest of those who during the war years remained in the rear and with all their might helped forge victory, providing the front and civilians with the most important thing - bread. That's why the old man had to advanced years, and children who would run to school, take up pitchforks and rakes, scythes and sickles, that their adult sons, fathers and brothers, and even mothers went to war - to defend the Motherland. So those who remain are plowing, sowing, mowing, working, exhausted. To the left of the diners is a large, freshly mowed stack, on which scythes, rakes and other agricultural implements are piled. In the background lies an endless field and equally huge haystacks. And above all this rises a gray, pre-storm sky. Apparently, because of the bad weather, grandfather and grandchildren were in a hurry to harvest the crops. That is why the painting is called “Harvest”. Warm golden tones give it a special flavor. The canvas exudes deep, sincere love for people and the Motherland.