In the rustle of leaves, the melody is light. Autumn landscapes in the paintings of great Russian artists Autumn city paintings by artists
Autumn in the paintings of Russian artists is the brightest and most touching time, where the red-yellow, golden and warm colors of the beautiful time of Indian summer, and where the rainy and touching landscape of truly Russian nature in all its autumn splendor.
Isaac Levitan- Golden Autumn
Isaac Levitan, Golden Autumn, 1895
Autumn was Levitan's favorite season, and he dedicated more than a hundred paintings to her. One of the most beloved paintings by the public is this Golden Autumn, although it is not so typical for the artist's work - it is too brightly, boldly, in major. It is possible that Levitan himself was not completely satisfied with it, for a year later he painted another picture with the same title, but written in a softer, softer, crystal-clear way ...
This autumn landscape is unusually bright and optimistic, despite the fact that most of Levitan's paintings are dominated by the color scheme of sadness - mixed muted tones. In total, the artist has about a hundred autumn landscapes. Their usual theme is the solemnly sad withering of the autumn of Russian nature. However, there is no sadness in this picture! The canvas depicts a deep forest river of deep blue color and white-trunk birch trees reflecting golden sunlight in autumn decoration ...
Vasily Polenov - Golden Autumn
Polenov's golden autumn expresses to the viewer a comfortably inhabited corner of immense Russia, with its infinitely enchanting diversity, giving a person the joy of life, contemplative mood and serenity.
The Oka River steeply wriggles into the distance, reflecting in its waters a part of the autumn trees densely grown along the right bank of the river, in the same place a white-stone church is slightly visible in the distance. In the foreground of the picture is a hill descending towards the river with greenish ocher shades, where a forest path runs along the right bank into the depths of a birch grove. Relatively decorated with the golden color of autumn birches, flaunting with its dark green foliage, an oak stands majestically, not yet touched by the approaching autumn time. In consonance with oak in color, you can mark small Christmas trees, planted along the path and talking about the beginning of a new life.
In the picture, everything is subordinated to the autumn season, the color of the colors emphasizes the variety of foliage on the trees from green-red shades to bright yellow and orange, contrasting with respect to the blue colors of the river and the sky. The artist picturesquely reflected the atmosphere of the airiness of the picture, this is evidenced by the banks stretching into the smoky distance of the horizon, over which the sky covered with clouds hangs.
Ilya Ostroukhov - Golden Autumn
The painting by the artist IS Ostroukhov "Golden Autumn" depicts exactly the golden autumn. The painting does not have red and green leaves. Everything is covered with a golden veil.
The whole picture is filled with some kind of joyful movement and is a very "talkative" picture for a sophisticated viewer. "We are happy to spin!" - the rustle of leaves informs, "now we will also fly away!" - brisk magpies warn cheerfully. The trunk of an oak tree in the background, which is braided by smaller trees, on the contrary, seems to tell the viewer about the resilience of the forest: "We will survive this autumn too!" And, as a result, a city dweller who has looked into the museum even in a dank autumn will move away from this picture with a feeling of joyful amazement. And with the desire to get out into nature. Or, at least sit "In the Abramtsevo Park", as the second famous autumn landscape of Ostroukhov is called.
The picture is full of miracles: it is rare to see an image of a forest “rejoicing” in early autumn in a landscape. And this is all the more surprising that Ilya Semenovich Ostroukhov never studied professionally as an artist, he took only private lessons in painting. And it is a pity that his landscapes are less known than the canvases of Shishkin, Levitan or Polenov.
Isaac Brodsky - Golden Autumn
The painting "Golden Autumn" is painted in very bright colors. It is difficult to imagine such saturated colors in reality. But Brodsky makes us feel the whole atmosphere of autumn in a small village. In the foreground, trees with red-orange leaves stand out, which personifies activity and vitality.
The openwork foliage and tree branches are beautifully traced. There is a river at the edge of the village. The waves are carefully traced in it. And in one place you can even see how a small house is reflected. Small figures of people go about their business, and someone admires the beautiful landscape. After all, soon the leaves will fall, and the cold winter will come. But at the same time, there is no sadness.
The picture conveys the beauty of Russian nature with great accuracy. Red and orange colors have a revitalizing effect on a person. The color of the road creates a weightless and cheerful mood. The distant sky adds serenity to the picture.
Vasily Meshkov - Golden Autumn in Karelia
The painting "Golden Autumn in Karelia" was painted by V.V. Meshkov. This is an autumn landscape. In the foreground there are blockages of stones from damp, they are dark in color, or maybe the sun gets little on them and they seem so gloomy, but all that “gold” that is scattered around them makes them an invisible part of the landscape. Trees stand between these stones. They are very weak in the trunk, but their foliage is thick and shimmery with all the colors of gold, amber and orange.
The background is also full of colors. Although the sky is cloudy, it still attracts the viewer's eye, even if only briefly.
He used as many colors as possible, many shades. Yellow, carrot, orange, ocher - for the image of foliage, trees and some earth. Brown-gray for stones and gray-blue for the sky. And this is just a small part of the colors that we can capture.
The author chooses an elongated format for the picture. This gives the picture some peculiarity. And it seems that it is not just that. The author wanted to show how infinite nature is and even by placing the picture so he will not be able to fit all of its beauty.
Incredible, exciting, enchanting and delightful - these are all epithets about autumn. It’s impossible to imagine a more beautiful time of the year. So many colors can be on one tree that sometimes it takes your breath away. It is understandable why all talented people draw inspiration from nature. Autumn is no exception in the painting of artists. Autumn landscapes have long been considered one of the most popular subjects for painting.
There are so many famous canvases dedicated to the autumn theme that it is difficult to count. And everywhere autumn is different: from warm and sunny to late, with the first frosts that pinch hands. But there are several artists who felt autumn especially subtly and conveyed it in their paintings.
Autumn in cities in the paintings of Richard McNeil
One of the talented artists who dedicate their paintings to fall is Richard McNeil (In Central Park, Walk in the Rain). This artist is a very private person, and very little is known about him. But, oddly enough, it is his paintings that hang in the White House in the office of American presidents.
In Central Park by Richard McNeil
One look at the autumn paintings of Richard McNeil takes you to the autumn atmospheric New York or. His works are incredibly beautiful and serene. One can only guess why autumn inspired the artist.
Autumn landscapes by Thomas Kinkade
One of the most sought-after artists in recent years is Thomas Kinkade. His paintings are so popular that it is incredibly difficult to buy them. All of them are in private collections, and people very rarely and reluctantly part with them.
And all thanks to the message. The author believed so much in love, the triumph of goodness and the bright side of humanity that he tried to depict it in every possible way in paintings. His autumn landscapes convey all this in the best possible way.
It is interesting! For more information about biography and creativity, read our separate article with many pictures of the artist's works for inspiration.
"Palette knife autumn" Afremov
- an impressionist artist who creates his paintings not with an ordinary brush, but with a spatula knife. From this, the strokes on the canvas itself have a characteristic appearance.
The most famous paintings are "Sunny Autumn", "Meeting in the Rain". Afremov's autumn is one of the most structural and clear-cut. It seems to be woven from small rays that fill the entire canvas.
On a note! Be sure to read a more detailed article about on the pages of the project "Wings of Inspiration".
Realistic autumn Lushipin
Another well-known artist of our time is Evgeny Lushipin, who paints in the genre of realism. This is probably why they are often mistaken for photographs.
Take a look at the paintings "Quiet Evening" or "The Tram of Desire." They are imbued with autumn inspiration. An incredibly lively autumn looks at you from the window and smiles, saddens with you for the passing summer, but still pleases with warmth.
Charles White's Golden Autumn
Another internationally renowned artist who has depicted autumn in painting is Charles White. His paintings "Golden Autumn" breathe peace, tranquility and quiet happiness.
It is impossible not to admire them, it is impossible not to love them. That is why they are now worth their weight in gold and almost all of them are in private collections. The artist himself received well-deserved recognition during his lifetime.
Autumn in Chinese painting
But this is just a small list of artists around the world who created their masterpieces, inspired by the golden time. There are also wonderful works about autumn in Japanese painting, and in Chinese.
For example, the Chinese artist Tian Haibo. His works convey the incredible play of the light of the autumn sun. Very realistic and incredibly vivid. They inspire and leave no one indifferent.
Liu Maoshan is an artist from China, whose paintings also show interesting autumn landscapes. This is a real autumn in modern painting.
Liu Maoshan's canvases combine industrialism and oriental flair. This is most noticeable in the works "Autumn Waters" and "Excursion to Washington".
Autumn in the paintings of famous artists
There are also canvases about autumn, which are incredibly popular, written by the most famous artists. For example, "Autumn at Argenteuil" by Monet. This is a very sensual canvas that breathes autumn inspiration. He breathes with happiness and serenity.
Studio Boat (1876), Claude Monet
Autumn at Argenteuil, Claude Monet
Van Gogh also looked to fall for inspiration. His brush belongs to the painting "Poplar Alley in Autumn". It conveys the mood of the artist himself, a little sad and chaotic.
"Poplar Alley in Autumn", Van Gogh
The famous painting "Autumn" by Shishkin is rightfully considered a masterpiece about autumn in Russian painting. The author very realistically conveyed the autumn mood in Russia.
Shishkin's "Autumn"
You can endlessly talk about autumn in painting, because this topic is inexhaustible as a source of inspiration.
Any canvases of various artists dedicated to this time of the year will always delight and inspire humanity. Nature, in turn, will be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for all artists around the world for a very long time.
In a time of light sadness and quiet joy. A rare case of a riot of colors in the middle lane for an artist is a reason to add warm colors to the canvas. Rowan leaves are red, birch leaves are bright yellow, lime leaves are golden yellow and oak leaves are yellow brown. Even larch in the fall lends itself to the general mood and burns with a canary color against the background of a blue sky. If you are lucky, the golden autumn will turn out to be fine and gentle. We look at pictures about the most romantic time of the year together with Natalia Letnikova.
Isaac Levitan. Golden autumn. 1895. Tretyakov Gallery
Canvas from the "major series" Isaac Levitan. "I was passionately drawn to work, I got carried away, and for a week now, I have not looked up from the canvas from day to day ..."- the artist wrote to his friend Vasily Polenov working on an autumn canvas. The painter saw a landscape bursting with yellow and barely giving off greenery in the Tver province on the banks of the Sezha River not far from the Gorka estate, where he had a heartfelt interest. Isn't that why his "Golden Autumn" is like a smile of nature. The brightest of Levitan's hundreds of autumn paintings.
Stanislav Zhukovsky. Autumn. Veranda. 1911. RM
A cozy corner of a country house, where you can find yourself with the autumn park "eye to eye". It seems that you can reach the top of the spruce with your hand and, if you wish, pluck that lemon-yellow leaf from the birch tree. See the horizon and, breathing in the cool, clean air, sit on a bench under the gliding rays of the autumn sun. Stanislav Zhukovsky dearly loved autumn and old Russians estates... A century ago, the assembled bouquet has not lost its bright colors at all and only emphasizes the autumn unity - the inhabitants of the house and its surroundings.
Boris Kustodiev. Autumn in the province. Tea drinking. 1926. Tretyakov Gallery
Merchants in the autumn interior. Favorite topic Boris Kustodiev diluted with warm colors. The fiery red maples and the yellowing garden by the provincial houses make autumn especially cozy. That same Indian summer, which for a while reconciles with beautiful, but, alas, inevitably flying leaves. The clear air is filled with the scent of leaves, watermelon and fresh bread from a small bakery. And, of course, no autumn is terrible if nearby cat... Coupled with samovar.
Ilya Ostroukhov. Golden autumn. 1886. Tretyakov Gallery
Isaac Brodsky. Golden autumn. 1913. Museum-apartment of I.I. Brodsky
Isaac Brodsky, the future representative of socialist realism, discerned the village troubles behind a bright riot of colors. Famous for his Leninian student Ilya Repin became much later, and in 1913 the artist preferred romantic landscapes to paintings from revolutionary life. Framed by autumn foliage, as if in the palm of your hand, the village spreads out. He lives his own vain life - rattles with carts, rings with voices. Only colors change - from red gold, through a white winter landscape - to a riot of greenery and again to gilding.
Petr Petrovichev. Boring Garden. Autumn. 1905. Private collection
The corner of Neskuchny Garden, permeated by the bright sun, really looks boring on a fine autumn day. Although the movement in a deserted park is only the slow waters of the river and long gray shadows that the sun commands. The fact that the park is inhabited is indicated by a house on a hill. And you can't say at all that this is part of noisy Moscow. Artist Pyotr Petrovichev came to the capital from the Yaroslavl province on foot - to study painting with Levitan and paint Kuskovo, Kuzminki, Neskuchny Sad ... Finding solitude in the capital city was much easier for the master of lyrical landscape a hundred years ago.
Konstantin Somov. Versailles park in autumn. 1898. RM
Center of Moscow or the Royal Park near Paris. Golden autumn is good in any place where foliage changes its color for the sake of autumn. A new picture from day to day is like a spectrum of shades. Know mix on the palette: linen, dijon, mustard ... And now the alley is covered with rust, and the color of the Tuscan sun overshadows the Parisian sadness. But the canvas will preserve "a fabulous palace open for everyone to see" ... As if a few days were not left until winter rest. And the foliage glowing, and the sky turning blue, not knowing the autumn winds and the coming cold.
Autumn is quite common in the painting of Russian artists. This is not surprising, because the beauty of autumn nature is very picturesque, combines many bright colors and has a special mood.
As mentioned above, autumn nature, which begins to transform, turn into shades of yellow and red, looks very picturesque. It would be really strange if the greatest Russian landscape painters did not pay attention to the transformation of the autumn nature. Fortunately for us, artists try to convey in their work all the faces of nature - snow-white winter, green spring, hot summer and colorful autumn. It is also worth noting that the renowned artists, whose paintings you can see here, became so famous not only due to the fact that they could accurately and realistically convey landscapes on their canvases, but also due to the fact that in their works they could display the nature of the weather and even the mood.
Autumn, as you know, is a time of happy sadness, a peaceful mood, when summer warmth gives way to coolness and rains, when trees begin to change colors, and in the brightest colors, when leaves begin to fall to the ground, a pleasant smell of fallen leaves is poured in the air when there is the feeling of the coming cold, but there is still time to enjoy the last warm days.
The paintings of great artists who turned their attention to autumn nature reflect, in particular, the emotional state in the midst of autumn. The viewer can feel familiar sensations, whether it is autumn or another season outside the window. This is the skill and high art of Russian painters. Further you can see 15 paintings, which today are considered to be the real property of Russian and world art.
Pictures of great Russian artists about autumn
Stanislav Zhukovsky - Autumn. Veranda