Plot

Somewhere in the Russian outback there is a bell tower of an old church. The house tilted. The river floods, the snow melts, and rooks returning from warmer climes build nests. “Nature is forever breathing. She always sings, and her song is solemn. Earth is paradise and life is a mystery, beautiful mystery", said Savrasov.

The rooks make the picture sound. Their croaking and cracking of branches, together with the calmness in the air, touch, in the words of Ivan Kramskoy, “mental nerves.” And here, with all the optimism of the canvas, with all the light and air, sometimes no, no, and you’ll cry from melancholy. Despite all the promising atmosphere of spring, there is a sense of hopelessness that makes you want to throw down your glass and start singing.

Mikola Gnisyuk “The Rooks Have Arrived”, 1964

Context

“Go write - it’s spring, there are already puddles, sparrows are chirping - it’s good. Go write, write sketches, study, most importantly, feel.” This is how the artist instructed his students and sent them to plein airs in Sokolniki. Savrasov himself loved to write in the Moscow region.

But in the early 1870s, against the backdrop of a flared conflict with the School of Painting (due to an allegedly insufficient number of students, Savrasov was deprived of a government apartment), at the height of the school year he and his family went to the Volga. He visited Yaroslavl, near Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Yuryevtse. The sketches made during the trip were enough for the next 5 years of work.

One of these Volga works was the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived.” Savrasov began work on it in Yaroslavl, then in the Kostroma village of Molvitino (now Susanino) he found a dominant feature - the Church of the Ascension of Christ, and finished it in Moscow.

Church of the Ascension of Christ in Susanin

The public saw the painting in 1871 - at the first exhibition of the Itinerants (Savrasov was one of the founders of the partnership). It is believed that with the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” a new direction in painting began - the lyrical landscape. Ivan Kramskoy, looking at the canvas, said that all landscapes contain water, trees, even air, and only “Rooks” has a soul.

As sad as it may be, Savrasov’s fate was sad. The artist drank, and with age, more and more, which in the end led to alcoholism, poverty, and wandering around the corners.

Savrasov, 1870s

Savrasov was extremely impractical. I didn’t use the period of success and didn’t really earn any money. Wandering from apartment to apartment, criticizing paintings, death of children, reproaches from his wife... Savrasov began to drink. The wife, taking the children, went to her sister in St. Petersburg. For alcohol abuse and absenteeism, the artist was fired from the school where he worked for 25 years. In relation to his works of the 1880s - 1890s, art critics and collectors use the term “drunk Savrasov”.

For a bottle of vodka, the artist hastily made drawings, which sold for 2-3 rubles at the Sukharevsky market. “The old man completely drank himself to death... I feel sorry for the poor guy,” wrote Vladimir Gilyarovsky. “If you put it on, he’ll drink it all away again.” I offered to rent him an apartment - and he said: “No!” - gets angry and leaves. Last year I became friends with some drunken group in the Balkans. I looked for him, but never found him... Sometimes he comes in ragged, drunk or hungover. But always sweet, affectionate, shy. I’ll give him a hangover, sometimes I’ll keep him there for two days, dress him up, and he’ll write something. I’ll ask you to repeat “The Rooks Have Arrived” or “Rainbow”. And then he still runs away. You invite him to stay, and he says: “No way!”... I saw Savrasov again, during Lent, when he was driving along Myasnitskaya from Lubyanka Square, completely drunk, together with his friend Kuzmich, who held him tightly so that he would not fall out sleigh."

By the end of his life, Savrasov was somehow able to overcome alcohol. He has a new wife and children. But my health was already compromised. The artist was almost blind, and the brush fell out of his trembling hands. He died in utter poverty.

Among all the paintings symbolizing the onset of a certain season, showing nature and a certain mood, the work of A.K. Savrasov’s “The Rooks Have Arrived” is one of the most interesting, recognizable and striking. The canvas was painted in 1871, and almost immediately became interesting to people. It attracted the attention of contemporaries, first of all, this happened because the picture smacks of simplicity, despite the fact that it carries strong images and speaks of changing weather and sensations. The masterpiece, soon after it was written, was acquired by a famous philanthropist and added to Tretyakov’s collection.

The main idea of ​​the picture

The picture suggests that nature will soon undergo serious changes. It is said to mark the arrival of spring, to awakening after a long winter. It should be noted that in the film there are no direct “words” that the onset of spring is approaching. Everything here consists of hints that the author managed to present in such a way that they do not get out of hand. big picture, but harmoniously complement each other, showing that the most long-awaited time of the year will soon come - spring.

The moment depicted in the painting

The picture does not depict nature as a whole, but an immediate moment, which tells us that right now the approach of spring is felt especially acutely. Such moments happen when, for example, a person walks down the street in winter clothes, he is stern and immersed in his thoughts. But suddenly he decides to look up, and then he realizes that nature and everything around him has changed a lot. He sees that the sky has become blue, that the sun has begun to shine brighter, and the snow is no longer as cold and inaccessible as before, but has practically melted, replaced by ringing streams, and somewhere in the distance one can hear the singing of birds who rejoice at the approach of spring.

What can be seen on the canvas

The picture shows a completely familiar landscape; here you can discern nature, which is still in a state of hibernation, but there are already all the harbingers of the imminent onset of spring.

We can say that it is almost spring. In the foreground of the picture you can no longer see snow-white snow, but dirty, slightly melted snow. We are also told that it is spring in the picture:

• Large thawed area located on the right side of the picture;
• A ray of spring sun that secretly illuminates the entire picture;
• A special breath gives the picture a feeling of air, in the depiction of which Savrasov simply had no equal.

Taking a closer look at these details, you can clearly understand that in the picture we see the onset of spring.

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Describing a painting depicting a landscape is traditionally a traditional task in both primary and secondary school. For many years, Russian schoolchildren have been asked to write an essay based on the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” by A. K. Savrasov. Its plot is simple, and it is precisely this simplicity that causes difficulties, since in order to see the depth hidden behind it, a rather rich aesthetic experience is needed, which most often does not yet exist in a schoolchild.

The meaning of the task and the general goals of the essay

The point of the task is to expand the boundaries of the child’s understanding of a work of art, to develop the ability to contemplate and comprehend painting.

In order for the essay to be more than a simple listing of details, the author of the text needs to be helped to pay attention to significant details and how each of them participates in creating the mood of the work and in creating an aesthetic impression. In addition, a factual part reflecting generally known information about the creation of the painting would be appropriate in the essay.

The topic of the essay is usually not specified (for example: A.K. Savrasov “The Rooks Have Arrived.” Description of the painting), so schoolchildren are most often not limited either in composition or in the emphasis of their reasoning.

History of creation

Savrasov first presented the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” to viewers in 1871. It is known that this work was written in a workshop, based on sketches he wrote in nature near Kostroma. Initially, there was an opinion that the canvas was painted “in one breath,” under the impression of what he saw, but an analysis of the sketches, primarily the manner and technique of painting, suggests the opposite. Savrasov painted the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” gradually, in several stages. The artist carefully worked out in the studio both the composition and the play of light and color.

The work caused such a resonance and was so in demand that A. K. Savrasov more than once created copies of it or paintings based on it.

To understand the canvas, it is worth keeping in mind that this landscape was painted during one of the most difficult periods of the artist’s life: immediately after the death of his little daughter and during his wife’s serious illness.

Short description

An essay on the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” should start with brief description what is depicted on it.

The painting depicts an early friendly spring and the beginning of the flood. In the foreground is an image of birch trees with nests of rooks and birds scurrying around them in different poses. Behind them is a church, typical of the Russian landscape, surrounded by a wooden fence. In the background - behind the church - is an endless field where water alternates with islands of either thawed earth or snow. The background for the landscape is the March sky: high and blue, with low, heavy clouds.

Center of the picture

It is difficult to say where exactly the compositional and semantic center of the picture is located. In general, the canvas is painted in such a way that the eye wanders from the rooks on the tops of the birches to the church bell tower, then moves to the background, lingers on the blue sky in the upper left corner and returns to the foreground again to stop at spring water and a rook with a twig in its beak. Such a dynamic perception of the picture is far from accidental. This feature must necessarily be reflected in the essay. “The Rooks have Arrived” is one of the first examples of a non-static landscape in Russian painting. Both the plot itself and the color scheme are dynamic. The familiar Russian landscape is perceived as the embodiment of movement and life.

Dynamics of color perception

An essay on the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived,” of course, is impossible without a story about the color perception of the canvas. Colors and shades should be described against the background of the overall dynamics of the work.

Reflecting the typical and familiar colors of early spring, the artist ensures that each color contrasts with the others. Remaining restrained and modest in color, the work is perceived as bright. The blue, white and brown-green fragments are so combined and contrasted with the black spots of rooks and shadows that a feeling of color play is created. This also creates a special dynamics of perception, not allowing the viewer to stop contemplating the work. The gaze wanders between the black spots of rooks, the blue sky, white snow and green water.

Plot dynamics

As mentioned above, the amazing dynamics seen and reflected by the author are the reason for the popularity and undying interest of the audience in the film, and it is precisely how this impression is achieved that is worth dedicating an essay to. “The Rooks Have Arrived” by A. K. Savrasov is methodically advantageous to analyze by excluding the details of the composition. What would the landscape look like if it did not have such and such a detail?

Rooks

Apparently, you need to start with the birds, focusing on them and trying to understand what place they occupy in the plot. From such an analysis, which each viewer will construct in his own way, it will turn out interesting story. “The Rooks Have Arrived” is a title that gives the key to reading the picture. If birds have recently appeared, it is easy to imagine the same landscape without them. What did he look like? If you imagine this, the picture loses a huge share of its dynamics, since it is concentrated precisely in the birds. Rooks scurry around the nests, fly away somewhere from the birch trees, and then return, one of them - on the ground - is in a hurry to build or repair a nest, picking up a twig and, apparently, about to take off. It is no coincidence that the beginning of spring is associated with the arrival of these birds, since it is with them that life and movement appear in the surrounding landscape.

Other details

The same technique can be applied to other parts of the picture. Water, apparently, literally flooded the ground in just a few days; without it, quite recently there was a snowy plain. Just recently, the clouds parted, revealing the sky, which means adding blue colors, the play of light and shadows on the snow, and clarifying the colors of the church, transforming gray and vague ones into green and blue.

You can continue your essay in this vein. “The Rooks Have Arrived” in many versions of the painting invariably contains the church. Perhaps the worldview artist XIX centuries assumed that without it the Russian landscape is just an endless snowy plain. It is with the advent of the church that life appears on Russian soil.

Footprints in the snow, the direction of birch branches, the movement of clouds - all this can also be included in the description. “The Rooks have Arrived” is a rich field for observations and interpretations. Being an image of one moment, this picture amazingly conveys the onset of spring, the movement of life and - since the church is included in it - the course of human history.

You can finish the work with general conclusions about your impressions of the picture. It will always be beneficial to compare the first sensations from the canvas and thoughts after its details have been analyzed.

Thus, an essay based on the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” by A. K. Savrasov can become exciting activity and a test of observation and the ability to analyze your impressions.

In the painting by A.K. Savrasov depicts early spring. This is confirmed by the fact that rooks are already building their nests on birch trees. The snow has not melted everywhere yet, but it seems that very soon nature will recover from its long winter hibernation.

At the foot of the birches lies snow, on which the trees cast shadows, but it has already warmed up under the rays of the sun and will soon melt. Near a birch tree, a rook found materials to build its nest.

In order to make the snow more realistic, the artist uses a great variety of shades. There are white, and gray, and yellow, and brown, and even lilac.

There is a village behind a wooden fence. There are only a few houses and a church. The houses are built of wood. A.K. Savrasov depicted the surfaces of the walls in such detail in the painting, they seem real.

In the distance you can see a beautiful landscape. Almost all the land is already visible. Only a small area still has snow. On the horizon line, as if in fog, is a forest.

The dark silhouettes of birches and rooks, harbingers of spring, look so contrasting against the sky. It is so bright and beautiful, it seems as if it is this that makes this picture so alive, gives it dynamics, and attracts the views of the audience.

To create the picture, the artist mainly uses dark, gloomy, restrained colors, only the snow that has not yet melted sparkles in the rays of the weak sun. But it’s worth looking at this blue, fresh, spring, endless sky covered with clouds. Here Savrasov used all shades blue color: the darkest and most inexpressive at the bottom, and the most saturated and bright at the top.

Painting by A.K. Savrasov’s “The Rooks Have Arrived” is very beautiful and believable. You look at it and it seems as if you are standing in the middle of that very village, admiring the surrounding landscapes and breathing fresh air early spring.

Essay based on the painting The Rooks Arrived by Savrasova, 2nd grade

One of the most famous paintings by the Russian artist A. Savrasov, “The Rooks Have Arrived,” depicts the beginning of spring. The landscape was copied from the outskirts of a Russian village in Kostroma region in 1871. This picture shows a very ordinary gloomy day. It seems that spring has arrived at this very moment, at this second.

The old crooked birches, still completely black and without leaves, have repeatedly survived storms, slightly hinting at the end of the winter cold. There is dirty, melted snow all around, which no longer gives the glow it had in winter, there is dampness, and only the rooks sadly sit on the branches. They have just recently returned from afar, having rested after a long and dangerous journey - they are building new nests, restoring old ones abandoned in the fall and sweetly talking to each other in a language incomprehensible to humans. Traces of birds are barely visible in the snow among the fragments of small branches. Having stuck to almost all the trees, the rooks fuss and fuss, thereby awakening nature after a long winter. White clouds with a bluish tint float by in the gloomy, gloomy, gray sky.

In this picture, spring has just begun, but is already making itself felt. Take, for example, the large puddle on the right with the reflection of small clouds. Behind there are some gloomy houses, a chapel, a church, a wet, tired fence and black and white fields. Not all the snow has melted yet and reminds me a little of cold winter days. The sun not only shines, but also begins to warm the earth. Looking at this picture, smells of spring and fresh, light air. Despite the fact that Savrasov depicted only the beginning of the warmth and beauty of spring without flowers, greenery and the scorching sun, we understand perfectly well that all this is just around the corner. We see an ordinary landscape - the freshness and awakening of nature.

Old, shabby trees, houses, a chapel and tired earth are depicted, having survived dozens, or even hundreds of winters. This sad gray picture provides a complete contrast to the coming spring and the cheerful bustling rooks. In nature, bright, warm, long-awaited days with a warm breeze and pleasant weather changes begin.

This artist is one of the few who could depict the air so realistically, it feels like we are there inside the painting in that Russian village and looking at a real, not painted, landscape. We breathe in the warm spring spirit and hear the hum of birds.

Rooks are one of the most prominent signs of the coming of spring. This is a migratory species of birds, and if they have already arrived, then spring has come with them.

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The artist Alexey Savrasov created this wonderful work of art in 1871. This date at that time coincided with the opening of the society of traveling exhibitions, where the artist hosted Active participation many years.

The painting The Rooks have arrived is still considered one of the most notable creations of Alexey Savrasov. Sketches and quick sketches for this painting were created by Savrasov in the present village of Susanino, in the Kostrma region. True, then this settlement was called by another name, Molvitino, renamed to restless Soviet times in 1939. Of course, when the painting was created, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov could not help but notice it, and immediately bought this exhibit from the exhibition. This was not the first purchase; before that, the famous philanthropist bought 3 works he liked from Savrasov.

For some time, the painting with rooks was shown at the Moscow Society of Amateurs visual arts. and even for some time its popularity overlapped with the works of such famous colleagues as Ivan Shishkin and Arkhip Kuindzhi.

A little later, the canvas was demonstrated in the capital St. Petersburg, I migrate from one exhibition to the next. After all these traveling exhibitions, this masterpiece is again returned to its owner, philanthropist Tretyakov, in whose house similar exhibits decorate his living rooms and work rooms. The gallery itself, which will house the entire main collection, will be built a little later. The success of this work was, of course, unexpected; repeat orders poured in, of which there were several.

Outside, spring is coming into its own. The blue sky is covered with clouds with soft sun rays, forcing the trees to cast shadows on the March melted snow. The frail, twisting birch trees, frozen over the winter, with the rooks that have just arrived to their homeland occupying them, are busy weaving their nests from twigs and thereby emphasizing the spring way of life in the picture.

The rooks have arrived in a way that is quite familiar to our perception. The impression immediately comes to mind of familiar places that I have only recently visited and seen many times. Behind the beloved Russian birch trees and the rooks that immigrated from the south, one can see a wooden fence, simple peasant huts and, like the decoration of any village, a pretty church, with the dilapidated façade we are all familiar with and the roof of the bell tower that has not been well maintained for a long time.

According to the conviction of idle art critics everywhere, the church that the artist painted was called the Church of the Resurrection, which can still be seen today, though church services There has been no work there for a long time, and in this institution there is a museum of Ivan Susanin. Closer to the horizon, the artist showed arable land, in some places with unmelted dirty snow and thawed patches. A familiar picture, despite the fact that today is the 21st century, a similar landscape can be seen today in various environs of the vast Mother Russia.

Today, the original painting with the Savrasov Rooks can be seen in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Its size is 62 by 48.5 cm