The composition of the picture is the image of a dense, densely overgrown and seemingly gigantic lofty and vast oak grove. Thanks to lighting, a special, slightly magical sensation is created, as if this is not a real forest at all, but a fairy, mysteriously beautiful forest, endowed with a mysterious essence. There is an impression that the light itself flirts with us, worries and leads our thoughts, forcing to forget all possible sorrows, plunging completely into the boundless and magical beauty and charm of the grove.
Particular atmosphere and mood is the picture, the work of the amazing landscape painter Ivan Shishkin “Oak Grove”. The canvas was written in 1887 and is now kept in the Kiev State Museum of Russian Art. The landscape “Oak Grove” is very distinct, tangible, sensually perceptible. The oaks are written out with an amazing texture, which is especially revealed in this light-air environment. The light lies on the trees with gliding “overshadows”, not a direct light stream, but separate sunlight with an uneven glow that molds the volume of the trees themselves. The composition of the picture is the image of a dense, densely overgrown and seemingly gigantic lofty and vast oak grove. Thanks to lighting, a special, slightly magical sensation is created,
There is an impression that the light itself flirts with us, worries and leads our thoughts, forcing to forget all possible sorrows, plunging completely into the boundless and magical beauty and charm of the grove. The very image of the oaks turned out to be large, captivating not only our visual but also all sensory perception, allowing us to completely immerse ourselves and become a part of this landscape, this wonderful oak grove that is at the same time similar to reality and unlike; simultaneously being part of our world and partly enchanted. The canvas is written amazing, typical for a clear, distinctive school of the nineteenth century, “handwriting.” All this enhances the feeling of a living, real landscape. The landscape is filled with a strong natural spirit, strength and energy of nature itself, summer clean air and freshness.
The layout of the picture is reminiscent of a randomly made photo-shot, so direct, alive and breathing the warmth of the air and the colors turned landscape. The magic situation is maintained by the relationship of shadow and light. Clumps of shadows and dark, contrasting areas give the canvas a beat and a pulsation, just like a living creature. The branches of the oaks are written with curved lines, which adds dynamics to this image. The oak grove looks magnificent, it seems to be full of life, it is life itself. There are no bright, deceptively beautiful colors, here only real light, real colors, the sincerity of life itself, the eternal and quiet truth of nature.
Light and shadow here on an equal footing, together existing and incarnating in various incarnations, images and associations, they constitute individual particles in a whole, into a single, obviously beautiful, existentially existing image. Light and shadow are both multicolored landscapes, and graphic images, and light careless etude works. To paint with the light itself, and so it is only the true, genius creators who can feel and sense its slightest changes and changes, feeling not only how to act properly with the brush, but also who can see the main thing in life and correctly convey this vision and understanding of the world through their picturesque works. “Oak Grove” is the heart of all Russian nature. And this heart is big, beautiful and clean, from it emanates warmth and life flows, it will never be. If there is a Russian nature, then there is also our life,
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