Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a man of outstanding talent. The artist felt the beauty and charm of every day and night, dawn and sunset. Kuindzhi was a master of landscape image. The landscape works of the painter are distinguished by the idea embedded in them, a special meaning that makes each landscape memorable and unlike the others.
Picturesque work Kuindzhi “Twilight” has no exact dating, the creation of a picture of art is attributed to the period between 1890 and 1895 year. Landscape “Twilight” carries a certain mood, performs a special sensual task. Twilight freezes space, enveloping it with siren-blue shades and cold colors. The bulk of the canvas is occupied by an image of a stone black surface filled with violet overflows.
A young, yellowish-milky month shimmers above the ground, soft, tender. The warm, quiet glow of the month gradually becomes not so bright, dissolving among the gloomy clouds that cloud the evening sky. Air pastel shades of pink, lilac and lemon form a beautiful color gradation. Coloring patterns are picked up by the evening wind and coolness. Why the earth’s surface looks even more gloomy and disturbing.
Twilight is a borderline, a mysterious time. This is the moment when important changes occur, this is the interval when one state passes to another. This is the time when the day gives way to the night. In this case, the environment begins to change. Some forms and outlines change and others appear. Thus, before us is a landscape in the landscape, a picture in the picture. “Twilight” is the birth of the night, which should soon be embodied in the night landscape. But until then we have before us the borderline state of nature, the borderline state of the world. This is a crossroads. Therefore, there can not be complex unambiguous contrasts, open, clear colors, clear outlines. Such a landscape is always incomprehensible, closed, symbolic. A dense, gloomy surface heavens the landscape, pulls in all the colors and the moonlight weakening every moment. Dyes are thickening,
The landscape is unusual, imbued with elegiac sound. “Twilight” is a thin, sensual canvas. The landscape is fragile, lazy, broken in the evening light. Twilight is gradually replaced at night, without a trace dissolving in the surrounding space. There is no extreme anxiety or oppressive sadness, the landscape brings only a feeling of light sadness. “Twilight” is an eclipse of the day, an eclipse of feelings, a rattling, restless, twilight state of mind.
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