Summer scenery. In the picture, the artist conveyed the state of the August heat. In the foreground is the image of the smooth, mirror-like surface of the river and the steep bank overgrown with thin young trees. The edge of the shore divides the composition into two equal parts parallel to each other. Thin, slightly curved tree trunks extend beyond the top of the painting. A turquoise sky shines through the trunks. It seems to be a simple linear composition. But the artist, paying great attention to the harmony of color through a lively quivering brushstroke, creates a very picturesque landscape, built on the contrast of warm and cold colors, conveying the state of a hot evening on an August day.
The sun sets behind the spectator, its rays painted the river bank with a bright crimson color. Thin young trees with green foliage, which have acquired a warm yellow-green hue by the end of summer, grow along the entire coast, including the water’s edge. Purple shadows fall from the trunks, creating a lace pattern on the crimson bank. The shore itself is reflected in the water along with the growing trees, as are the blue clouds running across the sky, with which the artist creates a diagonal direction.
Here the author falls back to the contrast of the warm crimson shore, golden tree trunks and the reflection of the deep blue sky in the mirror-like surface of the river, creating the impression of cold water. “Raspberry Spring” was the name of the spring in the story of the same name by I.S. Turgenev from his collection “A Sportsman”s Sketches”. The artist knew and loved the writer’s work. Many landscapes were painted in the places where Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev went hunting with his dog.
Some landscapes of A.I. Kurnakov are joined in a series called ‘Around the Turgenev”s places’. But the landscape ‘Raspberry Spring’ is not an illustration for Turgenev’s story. This is a meeting with the places that inspired the writer and then the artist to create the landscape of the same name. The impressions of what he saw coincide with the description of nature in Turgenev’s story.
‘One thing in which he is an unequalled is nature. Two or three lines, and it already smells, ” – such impressions had Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy of Turgenev’s writing. A.I. Kurnakov follows the same principle when creating his wonderful landscapes.
The sun sets behind the spectator, its rays painted the river bank with a bright crimson color. Thin young trees with green foliage, which have acquired a warm yellow-green hue by the end of summer, grow along the entire coast, including the water’s edge. Purple shadows fall from the trunks, creating a lace pattern on the crimson bank. The shore itself is reflected in the water along with the growing trees, as are the blue clouds running across the sky, with which the artist creates a diagonal direction.
Here the author falls back to the contrast of the warm crimson shore, golden tree trunks and the reflection of the deep blue sky in the mirror-like surface of the river, creating the impression of cold water. “Raspberry Spring” was the name of the spring in the story of the same name by I.S. Turgenev from his collection “A Sportsman”s Sketches”. The artist knew and loved the writer’s work. Many landscapes were painted in the places where Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev went hunting with his dog.
Some landscapes of A.I. Kurnakov are joined in a series called ‘Around the Turgenev”s places’. But the landscape ‘Raspberry Spring’ is not an illustration for Turgenev’s story. This is a meeting with the places that inspired the writer and then the artist to create the landscape of the same name. The impressions of what he saw coincide with the description of nature in Turgenev’s story.
‘One thing in which he is an unequalled is nature. Two or three lines, and it already smells, ” – such impressions had Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy of Turgenev’s writing. A.I. Kurnakov follows the same principle when creating his wonderful landscapes.
