Russian land is rich in talents.She gave life to many of the brightest talents in various fields of the arts, who became famous far beyond the borders of the fatherland, gaining world fame. Vladimir Makovsky, a remarkable artist and master of genre scenes in everyday life, rightfully belongs to the cohort of celebrities.
Images of children in the works
One of the best painter canvases is the painting “Children,running from thunderstorms. " It refers to a child theme, a lively interest in which Makovsky woke up after the birth in his family of a first-born son. Although his earliest work, the protagonist of which is also a child, was written by Vladimir Egorovich at the age of fifteen. Sympathy and sympathy are caused by the artist peasant boys and girls. Therefore, the painting “Children Running from the Thunderstorm” is far from being the only one in the list of canvases that captured the most varied moments of life and life of children. Listing them, be sure to remember the "Grandma", "Shepherd", "Return from the night." After all, this is the best work of the author. And the first of the above-mentioned was bought by Tretyakov for the museum's collection. From it began, in fact, the glory of the artist. And yet it is the painting “Children Running from the Thunderstorm” that is considered programmatic in the work of Makovsky.
Description: foreground
Let's look at the drawing carefully.Who are his characters? Two little girls trying to escape from the impending weather. And the picture is called “Children Running from the Thunderstorm,” and this detail also forces us to concentrate on the defenseless touching figures.
We can assume that before us are two sisters- An older girl, about 10-11 years old, and still quite small, about 3-4 years old. They are from a poor family, because both are barefoot and are dressed quite inconsiderately. On the older white linen shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows and a dark, almost old woman, a sundress. Top tied a large brown apron, in which the collected mushrooms are folded. The thread of cheap beads around the neck and a red thin handkerchief, which has strayed almost to the back of the head and barely hangs on golden-brown hair, revives the outfit. They were disheveled by gusts of wind, they climbed into the eyes, but their hostess had no time to fix the disobedient strands. From time to time she looks back. The concern is not so much the unleashed element, as the baby-sister, which the eldest carries, sitting on his back.
The plump face of a younger girl is skewed fromfright, little eyes gleam anxiously, tears are clearly in them. With sincere sympathy refers to her Makovsky. Children fleeing from a thunderstorm are written out to them lovingly and with pleasure - we feel it on precise, accurate strokes, on the expressiveness of the faces of the heroines, their poses, the refinedness of the movements.
Left and right parts of the composition
Look under the legs of the older sister.She carefully, deftly and quickly runs across the bridge-bridge thrown over the ditch. Under it flows a trickle, overgrown with grass and water lilies. The whole earth is also covered with lush green ant with different wildflowers. On a fine day, this place must be beautiful and attractive. But now Makovsky is not admiring him. Children running from a thunderstorm, interest him more. The artist wants very much that, in spite of all obstacles, the sisters have managed to get to their village and wait out the elements of the house. And she is getting closer and closer. Anxiously worried meadow, bending in awe of the grass and flowers to the ground, as if the living green sea sighs around. Using the principle of a panoramic image, Makovsky carefully draws close-ups of individual leaves and twigs, blades of grass and flowers. Unlike girls, he is not afraid of thunderstorms and sincerely admires the indomitable gusts of nature.
Background
What is striking picture "Children running from the storm"?The description cannot be completed without careful consideration of the background. And he is great too! The figures of the girls rise above the whole composition, behind them is a section of a field with already ripe golden wheat, and then, to the very horizon, the forest is bristling with greenery. Its outlines are lost in the cloudy pre-storm air. Dark clouds swirl in the sky. Cold gusts of wind drive them forward, to some unknown country. In some places the sun still flashes, as if resisting the onslaught of the storm to the last. But all is useless, a thunderstorm is about to flare with lightning, break the space with peals of thunder and wash the earth with a cleansing fertile rain.
