Composition on the painting "The Rooks Have Arrived" Savrasov

The description of the picturesque work depicting the landscape has traditionally been a traditional task in both the primary and secondary stages of the school. For many years, Russian schoolchildren are invited to write an essay on the film "Rooks arrived" AK Savrasov. Her plot is simple, and it is this simplicity that causes difficulties, since to see the depth behind it, a rather rich aesthetic experience is needed, which most often does not yet exist in the schoolboy.

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

The meaning of the task is to expand the boundaries of the child's understanding of the picturesque work, to develop the ability to contemplate and comprehend painting.

To make the composition not just a simple enumeration of details, the author of the text needs to help 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, the essay will be relevant factographic part, reflecting well-known information about the creation of the picture.

The theme of the composition is usually not specified (for example, AK Savrasov, "The Rooks Have Arrived." The description of the picture), therefore schoolchildren are often not limited in the composition or accents of reasoning.

History of creation

The picture "Rooks arrived" Savrasov first introduced the audience in 1871. It is known that this work is written in the studio, based on sketches written by him in the nature near Kostroma. Originally there was an opinion that the canvas was written "in one breath," under the impression of what he saw, but an analysis of sketches, primarily manners and techniques of writing, suggests the opposite. The picture "Rooks arrived" Savrasov wrote gradually, in several stages. The artist carefully studied in the studio and composition, and the game of light and color.

The work caused such a resonance and was so in demand that AK Savrasov repeatedly created his copies or paintings based on his motives.

To understand the canvas is to bear in mind that this landscape is written in one of the hardest periods of the artist's life: immediately after the death of a small daughter and during a serious illness of his wife.

Short description

Composition of the painting "Rooks arrived" should start with a brief description of what is depicted on it.

The picture shows an early amicable spring and the beginning of the flood. In the foreground there is an image of birches with rooks' nests and birds hovering around them in various poses. Behind them - a typical church for the Russian landscape, surrounded by a wooden fence. In the background - behind the church - an endless field, where water alternates with the islets of thawed earth, then snow. The background for the landscape is the March sky: high and blue, with low heavy clouds.

Center of the painting

It is difficult to say exactly where the compositional and semantic center of the picture lies. In general, the canvas is written in such a way that the sight wanders from the rooks on the tops of the birches to the church bell tower, then goes to the background, lingers on the blue sky in the upper left corner and again returns to the foreground to stop on the spring water and rook with a twig in its beak . Such a dynamic perception of the picture is not by chance. This feature must necessarily reflect the work. "The Rooks Have Arrived" is one of the first examples of the non-static landscape in Russian painting. The plot itself and the color scale are dynamic. The familiar Russian landscape is perceived as the embodiment of movement and life.

Dynamics of color perception

Composition of the painting "Rooks arrived", of course, is impossible without a story about the color perception of the canvas. Describe the colors and shades should be on the background of the overall dynamics of the work.

Reflecting typical and familiar colors of early spring, the artist achieves that each color contrasts with others. Remaining restrained and modest in color, the work is perceived as bright. The blue, white and brown-green fragments both combine and so contrast with the black spots of rooks and shadows that create a sense of color play. This also creates a special dynamics of perception, not allowing the viewer to stop in the contemplation of the work. The look wanders between the black spots of rooks, the blue sky, white snow and green water.

Dynamics of the plot

As already mentioned above, the amazing dynamics seen and reflected by the author is the reason for the popularity and unquenchable interest in the picture of the audience, and it is precisely for this reason that this impression is reached that it is worth devoting the work. "Rooks arrived" AK Savrasov methodically advantageous to analyze by eliminating the details of the composition. What would the landscape look like if it had no such details?

Rooks

To begin, apparently, it is necessary from the birds, focusing on them and trying to understand what place they occupy in the plot. From a similar analysis, which each viewer will build in his own way, we get an interesting story. "Rooks have arrived" - the name 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 we imagine this, the picture loses a huge share of its dynamics, since it is concentrated in birds. Rooks scurry around the nests, somewhere fly away from the birches, and then return, one of them - on the ground - hurry to build or repair the nest, picking up a twig and, apparently, intending to fly. It is no coincidence that with the arrival of these birds, the beginning of spring is associated, since it is with them that life and movement appear in the surrounding landscape.

Other details

The same method can be applied to other details of the picture. Water, apparently, literally flooded the earth in just a few days, without it, just recently there was a snow plain. Quite recently, the clouds parted, showing the sky, and therefore adding blue colors, and playing light and shadows on the snow, and specifying the colors of the church, transforming the gray and vague into green and blue.

In this vein, you can continue writing. "Rooks have arrived" in many variants of the picture invariably contains the church. Perhaps the worldview of the artist of the XIX century suggested that without it the Russian landscape is just an endless snowy plain. It is with the advent of the church on Russian soil that life appears.

Traces in the snow, the direction of the branches of birches, reflections in the water, the movement of clouds - all this can also be included in the description. "Rooks arrived" - a rich field for observations and interpretations. Being a picture of one moment, this picture surprisingly conveys the onset of spring, the movement of life and - since the church is included in it - the course of human history.

Finish the work can be general conclusions about the impressions of the picture. It will always be beneficial to compare the first sensations from the canvas and the thoughts after analyzing its details.

Thus, the composition of the painting "The Rooks Arrived" AK Savrasov can become a fascinating exercise and a test of observation and the ability to analyze their impressions.