Wrote a beautiful canvas "Above Eternal Peace"Levitan. The painting, on which he began working in the summer of 1893, is now kept in the Tretyakov Gallery. Isaac Ilyich then lived on Tver land among forests, rivers and lakes.
During one of the walks in the neighborhoodthe artist saw Lake Udomlya. On the shore is a poor rural churchyard, above the water - a large thundercloud. A strong wind swayed the peaks of the cemetery grove. It is this view that gives Levitan the idea of a new big picture.
Artist's brush makes speaklandscape space "above eternal rest." Levitan, whose picture was presented to a wide range of viewers, hoped to tell them about the most important things for a person. And when this work appears in 1894 at the exhibition of the Wanderers, discerning critics will see that this is not even a landscape - this is a picture of the human soul.
Картину "Над вечным покоем" зрители ценят прежде just for the way its colors glow. It is necessary to say directly that Isaac Ilyich Levitan is an artist who made the greatest discovery in Russian art. He rediscovered what subsequently a remarkable explorer of ancient Russian culture, academician Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev, called landscape thinking.
It turns out that in ancient Russia there was an ancienttradition of contemplation of spatial images. Observation of nature, as they used to say in olden times, with “smart eyes,” that is, speculation. Or otherwise - a spiritual reflection on the mysterious things surrounding a person. About God and soul, about life and death, about the transience of earthly existence.
By contrasting the solemnthe heights of the sky and the deserted, almost lifeless space of the lake created the tragic structure of the painting, which was written by Isaac Levitan, - "Over eternal rest." Because the viewer feels the presence of two worlds here: time and eternity. Confronting simple human cares with divine perfection.
This sky, covered with formidable swirlingclouds, there is a surprisingly accurate poetic analogy of Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev: “I watch the inaccessible communities for whole hours ...” In the masterpiece “Above Eternal Peace” Levitan, whose picture clearly conveys a feeling of thirst for the sky, silence and eternal rest, could also talented poet, share your feelings. The impressions received by him while contemplating this stormy sky and the beauty of the Russian landscape.
The lake on the canvas looks boundless, almostLike sea. And the crowning hill of the church with a cross on the onion dome seems to be likened to a ship. According to the long-standing Evangelical tradition, the head of the church is Christ, and only he can save a person whose life is nothing but a difficult and dangerous journey through the sea of life.
Isaac Ilich Levitan - an artist withunique gift of spiritual perception of the world. And the painting "Over Eternal Peace" indisputably testifies to this. But there is another very precious evidence that is contained in the memoirs of the artist Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin who knew Isaac Ilich closely.
His memoirs describe how Levitan couldin the summer, for hours on end, lie on the grass and gaze into the endless expanses of heaven. The sky fascinated and inspired him. These are amazing memories. Because the Russian nature, in fact, can be viewed with different eyes, and each perceives it in its own way.
Looking sentimentally, many people feel onthe heart is sweet sadness, and in some it causes even tears. Also Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, seeing them in the eyes of Levitan, decided that Isaac Ilyich was too sentimental. But the creator of the painting "Over Eternal Peace" completely differently looked at the surrounding nature. He contemplated the Russian landscape as God's creation. And not a sweet sadness, but a deep longing for something higher and unattainable filled him. This is how deeply religious people look at the icon.
This infinitely talented masterpiece - "Above the Eternalpeace "! Levitan, whose picture today occupies one of the most honorable places in the halls of the famous Tretyakov Gallery, was a real great man, a genius and God's chosen one. Everything he created is incredibly beautiful, new and extraordinary. different feelings. Someone thinks about unfulfilled hopes, others - about the meaning or insignificance of human life.
But the most wonderful thing written by IsaacIlyich, of course, is the creation "Over Eternal Peace." The brightest and most joyous picture, which remained as a testament for posterity, so that they look at the sky as often as possible and admire its endless spaces, not forgetting the meaning of their own existence.
