Pictures of spring. Russian spring landscape: paintings by famous artists

Dear guys and dear parents, Hello! It's spring, nature is gradually awakening from sleep. As Fyodor Tyutchev noted,

Nature hasn't woken up yet,

But through the thinning sleep

She heard spring

And she involuntarily smiled.

It was not only poets who loved spring. Russian landscape painters often depicted spring motives, they liked to paint on canvas the first rays of the sun and the melted March waters, the first young grass and blue sky.

Today our material is on the topic of art, because we will look at paintings by Russian artists about spring, look for the beauty of Mother Nature in them and talk about it with the artist’s brush.

Lesson plan:

What did artists see in the Russian spring?

Early spring is often seen in the paintings of famous Russian artists. This is always the hidden tenderness awakened after winter sleep nature, when the sunlight reflects in the melting March snow. Landscape painters such as Alexei Savrasov, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Yuon, Sergei Vinogradov, Arkhip Kuindzhi - true masters artistic brushes that managed to convey a joyful spring mood.

You don't need to be somewhere in the middle of a field or forest, just look at the pictures and feel fresh wind or spicy air, hear or the babbling of a stream. Each canvas painted by Russian artists helps to find harmony with nature in anticipation of the new life that spring brings. Even the titles of their works already speak of the arrival of spring.

And now I offer from general description works of famous Russian landscape painters go to specific canvases.

Savrasovsky rooks

The most famous, probably, of all the paintings about spring, the name of which “The Rooks have Arrived” is heard by every second person. When we were schoolchildren, we also wrote about this work by a Russian artist. Why is she so attractive?

So, the main theme is the beginning of spring, which the landscape artist managed to convey with unusual precision. The gray-brown range of colors tells us that spring is just waking up from its winter sleep. A simple and at first glance unprepossessing landscape begins with melting dirty snow and bare birch trees in the foreground.

But you just have to take a closer look! On the right, the snowdrifts have long turned into thawed patches, indicating that a little more and it will be warm, thereby filling the picture air with spring freshness. The sky also says that winter is giving up its rights. Blue is visible through the clouds.

If you look carefully, you will certainly notice the temple visible through the birch trees. What is noteworthy is that the sketches were written by the author from life in the Kostroma province, and the Church of the Resurrection today stands in the same place.

Savrasov finalized the painting he had already begun in Moscow; the finished canvas appeared in 1871. The presentation of the work turned the whole world of painting upside down at that time. Called “a hymn to Russian nature,” it immediately attracted the attention of art connoisseurs. The well-known art lover Tretyakov immediately purchased it for the collection, which is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Well, and of course the main harbingers are the arriving rooks, which cling to the bare branches of the birch trees. There is no longer any doubt: spring is on the doorstep!

This is interesting! Savrasov's painting so impressed art lovers that already in 1872 the author was ordered replicas - that's the name for copies that the artist painted, changing the size somewhere, the brightness of the colors somewhere, and adding details in some. In 1997, a canvas with rooks and a portrait of the artist settled on a Sberbank commemorative 2-ruble coin.

Rural spring of Levitan

Isaac Levitan, a well-known lover of landscapes, will take over the baton. His painting is known called “Spring has come”, which is one of his most lyrical works. The canvas was painted in 1896 while visiting friends in the Moscow region.

The plot of the picture is quite simple - the artist tried to convey to us one of the warm days of early spring in the countryside. Its main part is land that has just been freed from snow. The first grass has already appeared in some places, but the trees are not ready to come to life after winter sleep and stand not dressed in greenery. The village huts stand gloomily in the corners in anticipation of spring warmth, between which a gusty wind blows.

In the background, behind the fence, endless fields and forests lie in a turquoise haze. The sky is still cold, not yet warmed by the sun. The author collected all this in one landscape, trying to show that winter is about to give way, even though spring is just beginning to step on its heels.

The uniqueness of this work by Levitan lies in the fact that he used different techniques - drawing with gouache, filling, shading with a pencil and pen, as well as whitewash.

This is interesting! Over the 20 years of his creativity, having started working with Savrasov, the artist bypassed his teacher and created for Russian art as much as no landscape painter has ever achieved.

Spring motives of Vinogradov

Painting famous artist Sergei Vinogradov “Spring” - a real holiday awakening nature. Surprisingly bright and festive, it all breathes sunshine, and the first warmth of spring is everywhere - in the bright blue sky, almost melted snow and tree trunks stretching upward.

It is already noticeable that fresh greenery is breaking through last year’s withered grass. Although there are still areas of snow-covered land, their days are numbered - the bright sun is about to melt the winter cold. Even old house I have already cried with a drop of icicles, having dried the roof under the sun's rays, and exposed my side to the spring warmth. This artist's work evokes joyful feelings in anticipation of changes in nature.

This is interesting! Famous landscape painter Sergei Vinogradov is considered Levitan's heir. In addition to nature, in 1914-1917 he painted postcards on a military theme.

Yunovskoe “March Sun”

Most famous work Konstantin Yuon entitled “ March sun", written in 1915, carries a spring mood. Its blue tones, in which the sky is dressed, and the yet-to-melt snow give a feeling of lightness and serenity, as if assuring that everything is behind us - the frosts have been survived, a warm spring is ahead.

The artist tried to convey the feeling of joy of the first days of spring on an ordinary everyday day. Against the backdrop of houses, guys are riding horses along a village street, and it seems that we hear the crunch of snow under their hooves. The dog and foal flirting with each other also rejoice in the spring. The roofs and treetops are illuminated by March rays, and light clouds slowly float across the blue sky.

The picture is permeated with frosty March air, but very soon streams will run through these rural streets, and birds will chirp joyfully in the trees.

This is interesting! In addition to painting, Yuon was interested in artistic graphics and designed theatrical productions.

Spring at Kuindzhi

Arkhip Kuindzhi is considered a master of lighting effects. He skillfully created his landscapes using a combination of light and shadow. His cheerful and lyrical canvas " Early spring"was written in 1895. At the center of the master’s work is a river, still frozen in ice in anticipation of the spring flood. The first water appears through the cracks, and this means that the warmth is getting closer and closer.

Spring is eagerly awaited by the blue sky, the bare branches of trees, and the breaking grass. The entire composition of Kuindzhi’s painting suggests that it will no longer be possible to stop it. The bright colors that the author used add richness and create a feeling of joy, and the light flooding the entire picture allows you to feel the arrival of spring. The transition adds airiness color shades from sky to water.

A lonely birch tree on the river bank, slightly bent towards the water, stretches its branches into the sky. A little more and it will be covered with fresh leaves. ABOUT last breath winters speak and thawed patches are in the foreground.

This is interesting! Kuindzhi learned to draw while being a retoucher in a photo workshop. He bequeathed his entire fortune of 453,300 rubles accumulated from the sale of paintings to the artists’ society. The painting “Early Spring” is on display at the Ukrainian Museum of Art in Kharkov.

There are many other paintings, no less famous, that describe this great time year. If you are interested, you can independently study the landscapes of other famous Russian artists and try to write mini-essays on them.

That's all for today.

With wishes of spring mood, “ShkolaLa”!

Calendar spring has already come into its own. More and more often, as we walk down the street, we feel the warmth of the sun’s rays, we increasingly notice puddles in the courtyards and know for sure that the roads will soon turn into stormy spring rivers. Spring gives each of us its own impressions: while some are afraid to get their feet wet and complain about the dirt and slush, others exchange their fur coats for light raincoats and put on colored rubber boots.
What can I say, we all experience spring in our own way. Let's turn our attention to the classics - immortal paintings, let's try to see it extraordinary time years through the eyes famous artists. The great poets, who sang such different spring days in poetry, will help us penetrate into the authors’ intentions paintings!..

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842 – 1910)
Undoubtedly, it is worth starting with the outstanding innovator in the field of painting and talented teacher A.I. Kuindzhi. He is rightly called the “master of light”. Colorful, impressive, living canvases dedicated to Russian nature have become a real event in art. The poems of M. Lermontov very subtly and accurately convey the mood of his paintings:

When the ice is broken in spring
It flows like an excited river,
When among the fields in some places
The bare earth turns black
And the darkness lies in clouds
To the hollow fields...
M. Lermontov
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1830)

Early spring, 1890-1895

Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897)
Another outstanding painter, master of Russian landscape – A.K. Savrasov. His canvases very subtly and soulfully convey simplicity, touching sadness and deep essence native nature. But the best thing about the artist was said by his no less famous student, I. Levitan: “With Savrasov, lyricism appeared in landscape painting and boundless love to his native land."

Songs of the larks again
They rang in the heights.
“Dear guest, great!” –
They say spring.

The sun is already warmer,
The skies have become more beautiful...
Soon everything will turn green -
Steppes, groves and forests...
A. Pleshcheev

The rooks have arrived, 1871

Thaw, 1874

Spring day, 1873

Early spring, 1868, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860 – 1900)
You all know the commandment: “You shall not make yourself an idol.” Alas, I cannot resist and note that since childhood, the work of I.I. Levitan gave me no rest. This outstanding painter studied with no less famous artists and teachers: A.K. Savrasova, V.G. Perov and V.D. Polenova. The depth of spaces, the movement of air, the fullness and “sound” of the river - all this is physically felt just by looking at his paintings. The poem by the classic of Russian poetry F. Tyutchev perfectly conveys the mood of the spring paintings of I. Levitan:

The snow is still white in the fields,
And in the spring the waters are noisy -
They run and wake up the sleepy shore,
They run and shine and shout...

They say all over:
"Spring is coming, spring is coming,
We are messengers of young spring,
She sent us ahead!
F. Tyutchev
(fragment of the poem " Spring waters", 1829)

March, 1895

Spring. Big water,1897

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (1875 – 1944)
Another talented student of V.D. Polenova, V.A. Serova, S.A. Korovina, I.I. Levitan, who rightfully received the title of master - S.Yu. Zhukovsky. With large strokes, elaboration of details, color nuances, contrasts of light and shadow, he perfectly conveys the feeling of spring, impending changes and the awakening of nature.

Wave after wave rolls
Into the immeasurable ocean...
Winter gave way to spring,
And the hurricane howls less often;
Merciless time does not wait,
It is in a hurry to meet a deadline;
The fields and fields of the rich are a burden,
The white snow has disappeared...
N.A. Nekrasov

spring water

Spring

Spring

Early Spring (Gazebo in the Park), 1910

Spring bubbling stream, 1913

Spring evening, 1904

Spring, 1913

Spring

Ilya Semenovich Ostroukhov (1858 – 1929)
Another phenomenon of Russian painting is the canvases of I.S. Ostroukhova. This extraordinarily gifted man, with an excellent education and erudition, who had played the piano since childhood, became interested in painting by the age of twenty, which did not prevent him from achieving extraordinary heights in his new field. In the paintings of I.S. Ostroukhov combines a soft impressionistic style of writing and the poetics of a lyrical landscape, close to the paintings of I.I. Levitan. The mood of his works dedicated to spring is very accurately conveyed by the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky:
The snow will darken blue
Along country roads,
And the waters will go low
Into the still transparent forest...
A.T. Tvardovsky
(fragment of the poem "The snow will darken blue")

Early spring

Early spring

Witold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birulya (1872 - 1957)
An outstanding painter, student of S.A. Korovina, V.D. Polenova, I.M. Pryanishnikova, I. Levitan. Under the influence of artists, he became interested in landscapes and reached extraordinary heights. Subtly feeling Russian nature, its mood and some naivety, he conveyed these sensations to the viewer through his paintings.

Across the river the meadows turned green,
The light freshness of water emanates;
More merriment rang through the groves
Bird songs in different ways...
I. Bunin
(fragment of a poem, 1893)

Spring, 1899

Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon (1875 – 1958)
K.F. Yuon is rightfully considered an academician of lyrical landscape. Paintings everyday life depicted on his canvases show everyday life and mood Russian people. In his characteristic manner, combining the technique of impressionism and elaboration of fine details, the artist created bright and memorable paintings. Cloths by K.F. Yuon on the theme of spring, to enhance their expressiveness, we will “illustrate” with a poem by A. Fet:

More fragrant spring bliss
She didn’t have time to come down to us,
The ravines are still full of snow,
Even before dawn the cart rattles
On the frozen path...
A. Fet
(fragment of a poem)

Sunny day. Spring, 1876

March sun, 1915

Isaac Ilyich Levitan

Spring in Italy, 1890

Spring. The last snow, 1895

Spring. White lilac. 1890s.

Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov

Rural view, 1867, Tretyakov Gallery

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky

Spring (The River Opened Up), 1903

Old manor. May.

In May

Window to the forest

Window to the forest

Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon

May morning. Nightingale place. Ligachevo, 1915

Spring in the Trinity Lavra, 1911

Wave after wave rolls
Into the immeasurable ocean...
Winter gave way to spring,
And the hurricane howls less often;
Merciless time does not wait,
It is in a hurry to meet a deadline;
The fields and fields of the rich are a burden,
The white snow has disappeared...
N.A. Nekrasov
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1839)

Ivan Avgustovich Velts

In spring in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, 1896

Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin

Last snow

Early spring

Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov

May flowers, 1894

Spring

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar

Last snow

March snow, 1904

May evening, 1905

Songs of the larks again
They rang in the heights.
“Dear guest, great!” –
They say spring.

The sun is already warmer,
The skies have become more beautiful...
Soon everything will turn green -
Steppes, groves and forests...
A. Pleshcheev
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1861)

Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky

Breath of spring, 1910

Turzhansky Leonard Viktorovich (1875-1945)

Last snow

Spring in the western region, 1910

Spring. Moscow courtyard

Before spring there are days like this:
The meadow rests under the dense snow,
The dry and cheerful trees are rustling,
And the warm wind is gentle and elastic.
And the body marvels at its lightness,
And you won’t recognize your home,
And the song that I was tired of before,
Like new, you eat with excitement.
A. Akhmatova

Venetsianov Alexey Gavrilovich (1780-1847)

On the arable land. Spring

Endogurov Ivan Ivanovich

Beginning of spring

Bryullov Pavel Alexandrovich

Spring, 1875

Vasilkovsky Sergey Ivanovich

Spring

Bashkirtseva Maria Konstantinovna (1860-1884)

Spring

Calendar spring has already come into its own. More and more often, as we walk down the street, we feel the warmth of the sun’s rays, we increasingly notice puddles in the courtyards and know for sure that the roads will soon turn into stormy spring rivers. Spring gives each of us its own impressions: while some are afraid to get their feet wet and complain about the dirt and slush, others exchange their fur coats for light raincoats and put on colored rubber boots.
What can I say, we all experience spring in our own way. Let's turn our attention to the classics - immortal paintings, and try to see this extraordinary time of year through the eyes of famous artists. The great poets, who sang such different spring days in poetry, will help us penetrate into the intentions of the authors of paintings!..

Early spring, 1890-1895

Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897)
Another outstanding painter, master of Russian landscape - A.K. Savrasov. His canvases very subtly and soulfully convey the simplicity, touching sadness and deep essence of his native nature. But the best thing about the artist was said by his no less famous student, I. Levitan: “With Savrasov, lyricism appeared in landscape painting and boundless love for his native land.”

Songs of the larks again
They rang in the heights.
“Dear guest, great!” –
They say spring.

The snow is still white in the fields,
And in the spring the waters are noisy -
They run and wake up the sleepy shore,
They run and shine and shout...

They say all over:
"Spring is coming, spring is coming,
We are messengers of young spring,
She sent us ahead!
F. Tyutchev
(fragment of the poem "Spring Waters", 1829)

March, 1895

Spring. Big water, 1897

spring water

Spring

Spring

Early Spring (Gazebo in the Park), 1910

Spring bubbling stream, 1913

Spring evening, 1904

Spring, 1913

Spring

Early spring

Early spring

Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon (1875 – 1958)
K.F. Yuon is rightfully considered an academician of lyrical landscape. Pictures of everyday life captured on his canvases show the life and mood of the Russian people. In his characteristic manner, combining the technique of impressionism and elaboration of fine details, the artist created bright and memorable paintings. Cloths by K.F. Yuon on the theme of spring, to enhance their expressiveness, we will “illustrate” with a poem by A. Fet:

More fragrant spring bliss
She didn’t have time to come down to us,
The ravines are still full of snow,
Even before dawn the cart rattles
On the frozen path...
A. Fet
(fragment of a poem)

Sunny day. Spring, 1876

March sun, 1915

Isaac Ilyich Levitan

Spring in Italy, 1890

Spring. The last snow, 1895

Spring. White lilac. 1890s.

Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov

Rural view, 1867, Tretyakov Gallery

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky

Spring (The River Opened Up), 1903

Old manor. May.

In May

Window to the forest

Window to the forest

Ivan Avgustovich Velts

In spring in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, 1896

Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin

Last snow

Early spring

Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov

May flowers, 1894

Spring

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar

Last snow

March snow, 1904

May evening, 1905

Songs of the larks again
They rang in the heights.
“Dear guest, great!” –
They say spring.

The sun is already warmer,
The skies have become more beautiful...
Soon everything will turn green -
Steppes, groves and forests...
A. Pleshcheev
(fragment of the poem "Spring", 1861)

Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky

Breath of spring, 1910

Turzhansky Leonard Viktorovich (1875-1945)

Last snow

Spring in the western region, 1910

Spring. Moscow courtyard

Venetsianov Alexey Gavrilovich (1780-1847)

On the arable land. Spring

Endogurov Ivan Ivanovich

Beginning of spring

Bryullov Pavel Alexandrovich

Spring, 1875

Vasilkovsky Sergey Ivanovich

Spring

Bashkirtseva Maria Konstantinovna (1860-1884)

Spring

Spring time is a time of renewal and new beginnings. Nature is waking up from hibernation, snowdrifts are melting, spring rain can be heard from the roofs outside the window, buds are blooming on the trees.

I would like to capture all this beauty in my memory, so that later I can remember it with rapture and admiration. It’s a wonderful time – beautiful things turn out literally at every time.

Desktop pictures are very popular now, where you can see the beauty of spring in the photo. Or, for example, download a high-quality picture to your phone. You can also use the services of an artist and hang drawings and paintings on the theme of spring in your home.

High-quality photos about spring on your desktop

Beautiful spring photos for your desktop can be downloaded from our website. Nowadays there are many photographers who photograph landscapes and the nature around us. Beautiful photos on the theme of spring can be downloaded for free and set as spring wallpaper on your desktop.

Thanks to high resolution and large sizes, such an image will look great on a computer or tablet screen.

Pictures about spring often include small details, for example, drops, small buds, snowdrops peeking out from under the snow, and the first small berries. All this tenderness and beauty can be conveyed by a photograph on your desktop.

Beautiful images of spring on your phone

You can admire the spring season not only on your computer or tablet screen, but also on your phone. Various images, even of small resolution, are suitable for this. Even small pictures of spring on your phone will look impressive and advantageous.

There can be both city landscapes with houses with drop-dropping icicles hanging from the roofs, and pictures of wide, outstretched fields and forests with trees shedding a blanket of snow from their branches.

Also an excellent solution would be to opt for images small parts, for example, such as small rivers formed from melting snow covers, peeping buds or the first emerging birch leaf.

Spring, pictures for your phone: they make you wake up and come out of hibernation, start acting, fulfill your plans, make your dreams come true.

Drawn beautiful spring in pictures

Many artists glorify this time and depict it in their paintings. Start new era, the renewal of the earth inspires them to create something new, affectionate and bright.

The variety of landscapes gives wide scope for ideas and fantasies. Artists who were born in places far from noisy cities love to depict in their paintings how spring comes to the village.

These rivers, the melting glaciers on them, symbolize the thaw, the release of accumulated negativity and the beginning of a new life in a new channel. Houses decorated with melting icicles look like they are from old good fairy tales that our grandmothers told us before going to bed.

Spring in the forest is no less beautiful! These mighty trees awaken from sleep and shed the snow from their branches, like people who throw off the burden of the old and are ready for everything new.

It’s nice to hang such paintings on the wall at home and admire them while enjoying the nature of the world around us.

A beautiful spring, pictures and photos of which will always lift your spirits and push you to new beginnings and the embodiment of old ideas, is worth capturing it and enjoying these views in rare moments of sadness and sadness, lifting your spirits.

Spring in the paintings of Russian artists conceals the tenderness of nature awakening from winter sleep in the bright colors of the sun, reflected in the brilliance of the melting March snow, V rich colors grass stretching towards the sun, leaves and blossoms of spring landscapes.

The painting by the Itinerant artist Alexei Savrasov has become one of the key paintings in Russian painting. This picture is a quiet hymn to Russian nature, to spring, which is just beginning, to the spring mood that is just awakening in us.

Pyotr Konchalovsky reveals to us the richness of the world of painting in this work. The painting “Lilacs in a Basket” evokes silent delight, striking with its riot of colors and brightness. Pyotr Petrovich dedicated many of his paintings to lilacs. By the way, he was an excellent gardener and loved to grow flowers.

Isaac Levitan, the great Russian landscape artist, called his painting “Big Water.” It depicts the spring flood. Water - a flooded river - occupies most of canvases. It is blue, cold, clean, smooth, like a mirror surface. It reflects the clear blue sky, light clouds and still bare trees - a grove flooded by the river. Thin trees look defenseless and touching. Among them are trees that are almost obligatory for the Russian landscape - birches. Backlit by the sun, they appear pink.

Before us is a painting by the famous Russian landscape painter Isaac Levitan - “March”.
Looking at this canvas, undoubtedly, we are imbued with the mood that the artist wanted to convey to us. The picture is imbued with a feeling of anticipation and longing. This is also evidenced by a humble horse with a sleigh, standing alone near the house, waiting for its owner.

The most famous painting by Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon is “March Sun”. This landscape reveals to us the joyful feeling of the imminent arrival of spring, although the entire earth is wrapped in a snow-white blanket of snow. White-faced birches, gathered in a circle, are impatiently awaiting the arrival of spring, which will give them bright green, new clothes. And the old hornbeams, wriggling, slowly stretch their heavy branches towards sunlight. The March rays gild and blind the roofs of houses and the bare tops of trees. carved village houses, bending over a little, they expose their sides to the warm March sun, knowing for sure that, although the warmth is deceptive, spring will soon come into its own.

In this painting, the artist S.A. Vmnogradov depicted only the very beginning of spring. Early spring. The snow is still thick, and to get to the house you have to make a path. The sky is fraught with anxiety, and although gray, winter clouds hang over the world, blue shreds of spring radiance are already tearing them here and there.
Pay attention to the colors. The trees seem to be deliberately full of spring colors, as if outrunning the awakening of nature, despite the still wet bare branches, they are endowed with lush bright colors, foreshadowing the approach of the long-awaited warmth.

Konstantin Yuon’s painting “Spring Sunny Day” lifts your spirits at first sight. There are so many bright colorful colors, so much light and sun, so many joyful emotions. This is a complex composition - a city landscape and conversation piece With in large groups people. The author, from some small elevation, perhaps from a steep hill, looks at a provincial town, bathed in sunlight.

A.G. Venetsianov portrayed not an ordinary peasant woman, but fairy tale image spring, embodied in beautiful woman. It was precisely this beautiful, light, elegant, young spring that seemed to him, lightly walking on the earth, renewing the world, calming children, leading nature. In the distance there are two more similar groups working, which triples the image and suggests that spring is coming everywhere.

Ilya Semenovich Ostroukhov (1858-1929) was born and raised in Moscow and devoted all his work to the landscapes of central Russia. One of his most famous paintings, located in the State Tretyakov Gallery is the painting “The First Greens”, painted in 1887-1888.
For those who know and love the Moscow region, the painting “The First Greens” will be easily recognizable - there are so many such cozy and sweet corners of nature in these places. And the mixed forest, in which spruce, birch, maple and linden trees coexist, and small picturesque rivers, on the banks of which the fabulous Alyonushki sit - all this is immediately recognized by those who grew up among this beauty.