Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910) was a painter whoI did not recognize any traditions, constantly searching for new, and if not found, then ceased to exhibit. Antropov not only loved nature, but also was able to move her captivating beauty on canvas.
In 1879, a mature master whose work has alwaysare expected with impatience, A. Kuindzhi, all amazed with new works, which were like a triptych. They were completely different "North" and "Birch Grove" and even more distant from them picture Kuindzhi "After the rain."
It was a colorful figure both externally and internally.He was a stocky, strong man. I walked waddling, straightening my shoulders and putting my chest forward. A beautiful face with a high forehead and the right features adorned with curvy hair.
Being a very wealthy man, because his works were very valued and cost dearly, Arkhip Ivanovich spent money on himself and the family just a penny. But he helped the students.
He had a hobby - birds.Ordinary city titmouses, jackdaws, sparrows, crows. He fed them daily at the same time, and they flocked to him from all over the city. And he treated the sick. Absolutely irreconcilable in everything that concerned art, with feathered friends, Arkhip Ivanovich became a completely different person.
Variability of natural phenomena was of great interest to the painter. He always animated nature. She is a living being whose life is directly connected with man. They exist in indissoluble unity.
In this romantic landscape, the day isin the evening. A thunderstorm passed, but one third of the upper part of the sky was occupied by the remaining storm clouds. On them lay the reflection of a green meadow. The clouds will soon be scattered by the wind and carried away to the left where the thunderstorm left. There they are still dark and scary. Closer to the ground on the right, they lighten. Against their backdrop, you can see a hamlet with several huts. On the whiteness of the walls - the reflections of the strikingly bright green grass. This meadow, filling the third of the canvas, played with all colors under the sun, which Kuinji's painting "After the Rain" does not show. About him you can only guess.
Through the amazing green of the meadow, in whichthe artist with great skill used all the shades of green, is a small river-trickle. It starts wide right from the frame and leads, curiously bending, to the farm. So the green color is complemented by violet-black.
Color paintings are lively and purely technicalreceptions. The artist uses several basic tones, in which the intensity of color is enhanced. Painting Kuindzhi "After the rain" with the river on it becomes more dynamic. There are two horizontal composition lines (sky and meadow) and vertical (river).
It animates the landscape, still frozen after the storm, which has not yet recovered from a shower and gusts of wind, a horse. She is already peacefully grazing as if nothing had happened.
The spectator is waiting for the rainbow, which will appear after the rain. The picture of Kuindzhi suggests its appearance.
This bright, full of feeling is a work in which the emotion of nature, renewed and washed by rain, is transmitted. The picture is harmonious, and it is immediately transferred to the viewer.
Three paintings, which the artist exhibited in 1879year and later, amaze the viewer. The work "After the Rain" (a picture by Arkhip Kuindzhi) aroused bewilderment among artists and collectors. P. Tretyakov "Ukrainian Night" did not buy. He doubted the luminous colors on it. Artists worried whether the glittering colors of the master were durable, which he made according to his own recipes. But the public was just bursting into exhibitions where Kuinji's paintings were. Works of the master are loved even today, one hundred years after they were written.
