Movement and life of light – theme of the canvas “Paris., Boulevard of the Capuchin”. The colorant dominant of the composition is a showcase, blazing like a fiery furnace. She lights a damp flame on the wet roadway, snatches the corner of the house and the edge of the wall of the neighboring one from the darkness.
Lilac reflexes run along the green facade of the house, tremble in the dark windows and gradually fade away, they acquire a greenish tone in the depth of the street, marked by a chain of rare lights, in the background gathering in a beckoning haze. In this game of light, the festive shine of the windows of the neighboring house and the nighttime blue of the sky reflected in the puddles contribute to this game of light. Impressionist Korovin was, but his impressionism did not fit into a rational sample of searches in the field of spectral analysis.
It is known that to repeat the same species resorted to impressionists, creating a series of paintings in order to study the changing lighting. Korovin resorts to repetition, but the rationalistic task of research is alien to his impulsive nature. His paintings retain the freshness and expression of a rapidly executed sketch. Compared with the Korovinsky, the Parisian landscapes of K. Pissarro, created in the same places of the city, seem academically thought out and completed. In any case, the series, tentatively called the “Paris Lights”, is truly romantic.
Looking at the night scenes of the city of Korovin, the viewer plunges into the mysterious sphere of the city’s life with its brightly lit windows, the multicolored lights of the lanterns creating a motley kaleidoscope of light and shadows. Artificial lighting of city streets already in itself enhances the moment of entertainment, giving the quite real motive some fantasy. Surprisingly boldly Korovin decides his nocturnal Parisian landscapes in color. He is not afraid of the abundance of black, for example, In “Paris at night., Italian Boulevard” when depicting the crowns of trees; boldly introduces black paint in other works of the same series.
It is near it that the red, green, orange and green lights of shop windows and lanterns flash brighter. And as a whole, an amazingly moving kaleidoscope of color is created, applied by strokes of different width, shape, density and density of the paint layer.
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