Society and culture: The exhibition “The Russian landscape” in the Yaroslavl Art Museum

The exhibition "Russian Landscape" is opened on December 25, 2015 in the Yaroslavl Art Museum. For the first time the museum presents the subject of the Russian landscape which is so varied in the works of the great Russian artist Alexei Savrasov, Isaac Levitan and Stanislav Zhukovsky from the Museum of Vologda, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Rostov, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl.  

Alexey Savrasov - one of the central figures in the artistic life of Moscow in the 1870s. He was one of the founding members of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. The name Savrasov is due approval of the realistic trend in Russian landscape painting and the acquisition of the national school of landscape of national identity. At this time, Savrasov creates his best works, including the famous work "The Rooks Have Arrived". The exhibition presents a version of the famous masterpieces from the collection of the Ivanovo Regional Art Museum. For a long time, Savrasov headed the landscape class at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, trained a galaxy of great landscape painters.  

One of them was Isaac Levitan. In search of simplicity and clarity, Levitan painted widely and freely, summarizing form, looking the main colorful spots. Especially in a new understanding of his paintings were in color. He was one of the first to paint a bright sunlight, transmit blue shadows on snow or white trunk of a birch. For each season, for each state of mind he was looking for his own special structure and colorful things with its high sensitivity found.  

Stanislav Zhukovsky - the direct successor of Levitan. The high scenic quality of the works of Zhukovsky defined their success at trade shows. Artist of the sun, the wind, the calls of autumn and lyrically gentle spring. His work is characterized by a variety of moods. His works is the result of long study and observation of nature. A great lover of antiquity, especially Pushkin's time, Zhukovsky traveled extensively in Central Russia, studying the ancient "noble nest".