How many interesting things have we learned about water in the most recent time! Especially thanks to the film “The Great Mystery of Water”. However, even ancient Sumerians firmly knew: water can be both a source of great favors, and incalculable disasters. Grace gives rain to rice crops, disaster brings floods.
Among the Impressionists, “Raphael of Water” was called Claude Monet. Did not avoid turning to the image of the water element and the heirs of the Impressionists, among them – the French master Paul Gauguin. The painting “The Boy at the Water” belongs to the Master’s masterpieces that were written before leaving for Tahiti. And the way the Tahitian period of creativity Gauguin rightfully can be compared with Pushkin’s Boldin autumn, you can not detract from the significance of his other works. The Paris period is also significant in its own way. The figure of the boy, of course, stops at attention not only because this word appears in the title of the picture.
The boy is clearly from an aristocratic family – a neatly sitting suit and modesty in manners. The river itself can not be called a full and stormy river. Apparently, the summer is in full swing. It gradually rolls its waters in the shade of the oak groves, the murmur of the streams soothingly acts on the idle walking townspeople in the evenings. What is even more interesting is that the boy’s figure in woody-brown color almost merges with the background of the coastal trees themselves.
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