I. I. Levitan is known to all as a Russian landscape painter. In the picture “Cornflowers” we see not the usual image for him – still life.
The artist did not draw a single detail around the colors that would distract the viewer or for which he could catch the eye. Divinely beautiful cornflowers – that’s all that is paid attention to. Simple wildflowers are stunning in their magnificence. Ordinary cornflowers, seemingly the same, very similar to each other. But each flower of cornflower attracts individual attention to itself. Everyone has their own special shade. Here the viewer will appreciate the rich blue cornflowers, and light purple hues, and blue, and pink, even white.
All flowers have different lengths. It may seem that the bouquet is assembled hastily, without much attention. Together with cornflowers, you can see a couple of spikelets of wheat – they are unlikely to be put in a vase on purpose, for sure they were in a bunch by inattention.
But it is precisely this negligence that carries a special charm. The bouquet has no obsession, no pathos. Ordinary flowers just delight the eye, without claiming to any title.
Cornflowers were placed in an ordinary clay pot of a greenish hue. For these colors are not suitable holiday vases. Against the background of an ordinary pot, the shades of colors began to play even richer and brighter.
The table is laid by a usual light tablecloth, on which a pair of petals has already fallen. Soon cornflowers all fall down. Tablecloth merges with the same wall color. It seems that the flowers are just hanging in the air. It is such in his fleeting beauty captured by the artist.
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