This landscape is an ode to spring and the triumph of awakening nature. Many signs of the coming spring are captured here: the appearance of young grass, the movement of the river, carrying away the melt water after the recent flood. As well as nesting birds that fill the skiey space with vanity and revive everything around with twitter.
In front of us in the foreground is the high bank of the river, from which horizontal open spaces open, the surfaces of flood meadows already covered with grass blades and mirror ribbon-like rivers. They alternate with verticals of fast growing grasses, trees, shrubs and their reflections.
There is a detailed picture of a barely penetrating growth of blooming alder at the very edge of the canvas. It pleases the eye with its bright color and gives rise to the feeling of a new life in nature. Its thin trunks dissolve in the rays of the sun, becoming completely transparent, light and weightless. They cast threadlike blue shadows on the loose soil, not yet overgrown with grasses, seemingly pinkish from the spring sun.
The middle ground is separated by a meadow river. Its mirrored surface reflects the spring sky and coastal trees that protect the plain behind them from the wind. Here, the author notices the contrast of color that appears in perception under the influence of the rays of the spring sun, highlighting the color opposite on the trunks and branches of trees. They are painted in open, unmixed, color tones, as the French impressionists created their canvases.
Here, from the illuminated side, the artist uses rich pink and orange colorful chords. Shadows, in turn, have cold, transparent shades, due to which there is no feeling of heaviness from the trees occupying almost the entire space of the landscape. Further, against the background of the spreading ‘blue’ distant and azure sky, the twigs form a crown, gradually changing in color from pale orange, light pink, pale green to light yellow and transparent, so it seems light. Even voluminous rooks' nests with future offspring seem weightless.
The background from the warm range of green meadows cut by the blue river turns into a generalized tone of the forest massif visible at the horizon.
Lush clouds swirl in the sky. One can see the fuss of restless birds at the nests, echoing the endless rhythms of nature and life itself.
In front of us in the foreground is the high bank of the river, from which horizontal open spaces open, the surfaces of flood meadows already covered with grass blades and mirror ribbon-like rivers. They alternate with verticals of fast growing grasses, trees, shrubs and their reflections.
There is a detailed picture of a barely penetrating growth of blooming alder at the very edge of the canvas. It pleases the eye with its bright color and gives rise to the feeling of a new life in nature. Its thin trunks dissolve in the rays of the sun, becoming completely transparent, light and weightless. They cast threadlike blue shadows on the loose soil, not yet overgrown with grasses, seemingly pinkish from the spring sun.
The middle ground is separated by a meadow river. Its mirrored surface reflects the spring sky and coastal trees that protect the plain behind them from the wind. Here, the author notices the contrast of color that appears in perception under the influence of the rays of the spring sun, highlighting the color opposite on the trunks and branches of trees. They are painted in open, unmixed, color tones, as the French impressionists created their canvases.
Here, from the illuminated side, the artist uses rich pink and orange colorful chords. Shadows, in turn, have cold, transparent shades, due to which there is no feeling of heaviness from the trees occupying almost the entire space of the landscape. Further, against the background of the spreading ‘blue’ distant and azure sky, the twigs form a crown, gradually changing in color from pale orange, light pink, pale green to light yellow and transparent, so it seems light. Even voluminous rooks' nests with future offspring seem weightless.
The background from the warm range of green meadows cut by the blue river turns into a generalized tone of the forest massif visible at the horizon.
Lush clouds swirl in the sky. One can see the fuss of restless birds at the nests, echoing the endless rhythms of nature and life itself.
