All the most valuable artistic heritage of Russiacarefully kept in the walls of the Tretyakov Gallery. The painting "Evening Bells", written by Levitan, is a valuable instance, located in the 37th hall. It is made in oil on canvas with the size 87x107.6 cm. The space of the picture is delimited by three plans, each of which could exist in isolation. The manner of execution is as realistic as possible, every detail has been perfected to the smallest detail.
Isaac Levitan was born in 1860 in Lithuania.When the boy was 10 years old, his family moved to live in Moscow. Young Isaac very quickly became an orphan. At the age of 13, the boy entered the Moscow School of Painting for study. The young man’s diligence and talent evoke the sympathy of artists and artists, and already at the age of 17, Isaac is a student of AK. Savrasov, and later - V.D. Polenova.
По окончании училища Исаак Ильич Левитан becomes a very recognizable and popular painter, participates in traveling art exhibitions. The most fruitful period of the master's work - 1890-1895. In 1898 he was awarded the title of honorary academic of landscape painting.
The main genre in which the master - landscape worked.However, his track record also contains records that he was the author of the scenery for the Moscow Private Opera. Levitan was one of the few artists who managed, at a young age, to win the sympathy of Tretyakov, who acquired a painting from him and placed it as an exhibit in his own collection.
Since 1884, Levitan has been actively writing sincenature. However, for contemporaries, his landscape works are of the greatest interest. His most popular painting is “Evening Bells,” a photo of which more than once became the cover of textbooks, calendars, and cards.
Свое вдохновение художник черпал в богатстве surrounding nature. After he visited the Volga coast in 1987, his work list was supplemented with the following canvases: “Pines”, “Oak”, “Evening on the Volga”, “Oak Grove”. Autumn".
Subsequent work of the master falls on the period1995 and we can safely say that since that time his hand began to create real masterpieces, thanks to which he became famous throughout the world. It was during this period that he wrote “At the Whirlpool” and “Above the Eternal Peace”, as well as “Vladimirka”, which he subsequently presented as a gift to the Tretyakov Gallery.
The greatest landscape painter of the XIX century, the master with finesoul, I.I. Levitan with his work confirmed the infinite love of country and the Russian people. His canvases are imbued with stormy paints inherent in nature and calm strokes that convey the master's warm attitude towards the world around him.
When it comes to religiosity and influenceChurch community on the life of the Russian peasant, remember the image of a calm water surface at sunset and iridescent domes visible on the other side of the river. This image is firmly rooted in the minds of most people, who immediately recall that this is Levitan, "Evening Bells."
Description of the picture comes down to three storylines.The central element of the canvas - the river separating the two banks. In the distance, the viewer can observe a monastery spread out among the trees, and in the foreground a path leading to the reservoir. Two boats on the shore - the ability of a person to cross the river and get to the monastery. In a way, this is a metaphorical depiction of the human path to God.
In 1892, after visiting severalmonasteries of the country, decides to create Levitan "Evening Bells." The description of the picture as if transmits his meditative state from the dizzying chime of church bells, carried with the warm wind. The sun's rays fall on the dome and allow them to shine on the entire canvas. It can be seen that the picture was painted in the evening, when it was the turn of the evening service. This idea formed the basis of the name of the work.
The type that the artist used in hiscanvas "Evening Bells", was taken from the seen landscapes when he lived in Zvenigorod. There he used to walk in the evenings near the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery. It is important to understand that the image of the wrong monastery is visible on the canvas, but a generalized idea of the evening life of ordinary peasants. The motive was so well chosen that now, when you see the church domes, towering above the tops of the trees, Levitan is immediately recalled, “Evening Bells”. Description of the picture may be ambiguous, but it is impossible to disprove the fact of its ideological versatility.
