The summer of 1888 Korovin spent at his dacha with his older friend, the artist Polenov, constantly practicing in the technique of transmitting light and air space. Many of the techniques the author found and embodied in the painting “At the Tea Table”. The canvas “In the boat” became a means for consolidating and perfecting new means of expressiveness.
The artist did not put forward the foreground nature or people, equally dividing the main role between them. In other words, this poetic picture has become an excellent example of the image of the unity and harmony of nature and man.
The main characteristic of the work can be a word such as leisure. The boat sails slowly, obeying the current of the river, as evidenced by the paddle laid aside, calmly the conversation of the heroes, and the time, as if deliberately slowed down its course, submitting to this romantic atmosphere.
An unusually constructed composition creates a feeling of privacy, even intimacy. The angle is chosen in such a way that the viewer involuntarily delves into the interior space of the boat, looking at the heroes from above, and the feeling of privacy is completed by framing the upper part of the leaf of the foliage of trees.
Whom did Korovin portray here? The man in the boat is Vasily Polenov, and in the role of his fine opponent Maria Yakunchikova, his relative for his wife.
The sense center of the picture Korovin highlighted with color – it’s a bright white, which depicts the figure of the girl, the rest of the color is presented in calm muffled tones.
The picture “In the boat” Korovin like to compare with the work of the same name by the French impressionist Eduard Monet. As usual, admiring the Frenchman, preference is still given to the domestic author. Patriotically and pleasantly.
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