Painting Konchalovsky "Lilac in the basket": description

A lilac singer is called this painter, in the heritage of which there are more than four dozen paintings and a lot of author's repetitions dedicated to this amazing plant. Painting Konchalovsky "Lilacs in the basket", on which the drawn bunches are as good as those depicted in other still lifes - on a wicker chair, on a window, in a bag and a tub on the floor, organically fits and, if one can say so, crown the cycle of works dedicated to This color. And yet not cut from the bushes, and placed in various vases and containers, and at any time of the spring day - the lilac on the canvases of Peter Petrovich is always amazingly beautiful.

Cloths that give birth to poetry

This unusual beauty that flows from the canvases of P. Konchalovsky (1876-1956), Alexander Kushner devoted a magnificent verse, which must be read in full, because he is as beautiful as the flowers on various canvases of the artist, including the painting "Lilacs In the basket ":" Purple, white, lilac, icy, blue, stupid before the gaze will appear lilac ... "Everything is very exquisite - and poetry, and paintings, especially if you look at the retrospective or even a few" lilac "paintings.

How can you name these flowers that have gone through all the artist's work? Red line, the cause of life, the main theme or symbol of creativity? Probably, the last definition will do the most, because of more than 1,500 paintings written by Peter Petrovich, when mentioning his name, these flowers arise, and especially Konchalovsky's painting "Lilacs in the basket".

Always coveted topic

It must be stipulated that Petr Petrovich has several still-lifes with this name. They depict clusters of different colors (as already stipulated, white, purple, purple), differently selected bouquets, different from each other weaving on baskets. They are all surprisingly good, everything in them is different - shades, floristics, containers, places where bouquets are placed. This is the window sill, and the table, now covered with something, then naked. Often the artist depicts a lilac on the floor, probably in order to emphasize the abundance of cut branches. A good lilac in the garden (on one canvas it is visible in the open window).

The most popular canvas

But most often mentioned is Konchalovsky's painting "Lilacs in the basket". This is a famous still-life, written in 1933. It shows a basket on a background of a dark wall, and in it - a bunch of lilacs. It seems that they have recently been cut off and still fragrant. And now, even in the basket, they convey the beauty of the world around them. Konchalovsky used in the picture white, lilac, purple, burgundy, blue shades. This multicolor emphasizes the beauty of spring, pacification fills the soul.

Some hear the music of the namesake of the artist composer Tchaikovsky from "The Sleeping Beauty" (Waltz of the Fairy of the Lilac). Feeling of rest, joy and aching happiness gives birth to Konchalovsky's painting "Lilacs in a basket". The artist was so connected with these flowers that at the sight of beautiful bunches, many wanted, like Kushner, to exclaim: "Konchalovsky has already visited here, touched his brushes and screwed up his eyes ..." But the painter with his father-in-law Surikov traveled a lot of European countries with sketchbook and drew A sufficient number of beautiful flowers. But love of lilac from Konchalovsky - as a love for the Motherland. Someone associates it with the Russian field, someone with a birch tree, and he has a lilac.

Fantastic reality images

Russians are very familiar with this picture, because the school is writing an essay about it. "Lilac in the basket" is a very fertile topic, it develops fantasy. At first glance - just a flower still life, and look closely - that's just not seen. Only the elastic brushes, go, describe. A color scheme, a realistic image! There is a legend that Pyotr Konchalovsky, knowing how naturally flowers on his canvases look, attached a live branch to the drawn bouquet before the next excursion, and nobody paid any attention to it, so naturally it blended into the canvas.

"Neither happy nor sad ..."

"Lilac in the basket" Konchalovsky wrote in 1923, 1933, 1937, 1954. And just a lilac, every, every possible, he painted always, every year, until his death.

Lightly entwined, tender calm tones lilac artist painted in 1937. A very good still life - not fussy, not jubilant, but also not funeral. Even in 1941 Konchalovsky turned to his favorite topic, because, obviously, the lilac is a symbol of life, and maybe even a victory. As another poet said: "Lilac with sorrow can not be imagined ..." And then again it is appropriate to recall the "Lilac in the Basket" written in 1933. Konchalovsky said that the image of flowers can not be treated carelessly, "so-so." He argued that there is everything in the flower that only exists in nature, but in a more complex, refined, refined form.

Important details

I would like to note that the painter also took seriously to the baskets themselves, as well as other containers for the beautiful cut branches. Baskets in still lifes are different. In the work of 1937 she was tenderly yellow, woven from thin branches, with a handle: it seems that she was only brought from the garden and briefly put in the hallway. Bouquet of 1933 in a completely different capacity: P. Konchalovsky lilac in a basket placed in a reliable, strong, corresponding to a powerful, rich bouquet tare. The weaving is large, the bars are wide - it is reliable, despite the relatively small volume. The dark table, the dark basket, thick shadows cast by the bouquet on the wall, all emphasize the beauty of the bouquet, create a three-dimensional space, as if bringing the bouquet closer to the viewer. The leaves shimmer with all shades of green and also enhance the bulge of the colored bunches.

Of course, O. Mandelstam's surprising lines are not suitable for this painting: "The artist depicted to us a deep fainting of lilac ..." But other still-lives are suitable, because P. Konchalovsky lilac in the basket drew any - triumphant, heroic, and gentle, fainting. The bouquet that the school program recommends for writing compositions in the 5th grade is really a good choice. He evokes a different scale, but only kind and joyful feelings. Works on such topics teach children to be proud of their homeland, its joyous beauty and heroic history. The painting "Lilacs in a Basket", written in 1933, measuring 79 x 104 cm, is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Its unique style

Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky is called a sezannist. But not only the creative work of the French post-impressionist had a strong influence, and not only under the influence of the Frenchman was our compatriot. Simply Paul Cézanne was close in spirit to the early Konchalovsky. In the works of the beginning of the century, one of the founders of the Knave of Diamonds, avant-garde artist P. Konchalovsky, is very influenced by the famous author Piero and Harlequin, but in later canvases such as Lilac in the Basket (photo of the masterpiece is attached), there is only a genius A domestic artist with his own individual, recognizable manner of writing.