Composition based on the painting by Denisov - Uralsky "forest fire". Description of the painting by Alexei Denisov-Uralsky “Forest fire

The famous Russian artist A.K. Denisov-Uralsky created paintings and dedicated them to the Urals - his native land. One of his beautiful creations is the canvas “Forest Fire”, which he painted in 1987.

In his painting, the artist depicted a beautiful dense forest engulfed in a huge fire. The elements broke out over the pines - the flames rise high above the trees, and large puffs of smoke, like a terrible monster, seeking to swallow the entire sky. Many centuries ago, people tamed fire, thanks to which they began to warm their homes and cook food, but in the picture we can see how dangerous, terrifying and terrible this element can be. It was this strong and free that the author imagined fire in his picture. The flame is so colossal that in comparison with it the trees seem like puppets. It moves like a wall, burning everything that gets in its way, sparing nothing around. In the picture, on the right, we see that the entire forest is engulfed in fire, everything is burning - small Christmas trees, grass, and even giant mighty pines. The flames are red-orange and ominous. And on the left, suffocating from the black burning and waiting for their inevitable death, there are lonely trees. Almost half of the canvas is filled with clouds of smoke, it is so thick and impenetrable that even sunlight cannot penetrate through it, only a few rays reach the foreground of the canvas. The wind plays with fire and spreads it further and further. It seems that even we can hear the crackling of dying trees.

We do not know the cause of the fire, perhaps the person who did not put out the fire is to blame, or the lightning that struck the dry tree is to blame. But we understand the consequences of a terrible and destructive fire. There is only a small hope for heavy rain that could cope with this natural disaster.

The main theme with which Denisov-Uralsky worked was the unforgettable nature of the Urals, because this is his native land.
In his work, one more picture can be noted, which depicts a fire in the forest.
Apparently, the inspiration was so great that the author decided to devote several of his works to this topic.

The painting "Forest Fire" shows the real element.
Looking at her, it becomes scary and creepy.
You begin to think about how pathetic and helpless a person is in the power of nature, especially when it is raging.
She sweeps away everything in her path, sparing no one and nothing.
One can only guess how the fire depicted in this picture started.
Perhaps someone kindled a fire, and a spark that fell on dry grass served as the start of a fire.
It may have been a very hot, dry summer.
Such weather is characterized by frequent forest fires.
In any case, the spectacle made a huge impression on me.

The flames are like a terrible beast, from which there is no escape and it is impossible to hide anywhere.
The smoke from the flame is shown so high that it soars up to the sky, even higher than the pines, although they reach a height of several tens of meters.
Smoke clouds are shown in different colors: from gray-ash to almost black, the color of graphite.
The smoke is scattered in all directions.
The sky is also painted in a dirty gray color, as if the ashes from a fire are reflected in it.

The wall of flames is simply terrible, it is impossible to get through it.
At the ground, the fire is shown in purple-orange with yellow flashes.
The higher it rises, the more different shades we see.
In any case, even the sun's rays cannot penetrate such a dense smoke screen.
The color scheme is shown amazingly realistic.
There is no uniform color here, the artist is constantly moving from one characteristic tone to another.

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By the age of 12, Aleksey Kondratievich Savrasov had learned to draw well on his own and painted landscapes with gouache and watercolor depicting romantic motifs like a storm at sea or a volcanic eruption, which were readily bought up inexpensively in Zamoskvorechye.

At the age of 14 he entered the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture, but his father, a haberdashery merchant, wanted to see him as an assistant in the merchant business. Due to the protests of his father and the illness of his mother, Alexei had to leave his studies.

The chief police chief of Moscow, Major General Luzhin, learned about Savrasov's extraordinary abilities for painting. Thanks to him and the school teacher Karl Rabus in 1848, Alexei was able to continue his education in the landscape class. In the same year, he was noted as the student who "submitted the best sketches". The following year, at the expense of the philanthropist Likhachev, he recovered to Ukraine, where he painted several paintings that were enthusiastically received by critics. And a year later he already received the title of artist for "View of the Moscow Kremlin in the moonlight" and "Stone in the forest near the flood", his skill was recognized as mature for completing his studies.

In 1854, at an exhibition at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, drawing attention to the artist’s originality, purchased his painting “The Steppe with Chumaks in the Evening” and offered to work to paint views from nature in her residence between Peterhof and Oranienbaum.

The paintings made there turned out to be so successful that in the autumn of the same year the Council of the Academy awarded the 24-year-old artist the title of academician for them.

One of the works was purchased by Pavel Tretyakov two years later, and thus the painting "View in the vicinity of Oranienbaum" became one of the first exhibits of his illustrious collection.

In 1857, Savrasov married Sofya Karlovna Hertz. At the same time, he was offered to replace the deceased Rabus as the head of the landscape class of the school, which he had recently graduated from. Savrasov played an important role in the Society of Art Lovers, whose secretary was the famous art historian Karl Hertz, his wife's brother, who became Savrasov not only a relative, but also a friend.

In 1862, at the expense of the Society of Art Lovers, the artist was given the opportunity to travel to London for the World Exhibition and visit Denmark, France, and Switzerland.

His European landscapes are distinguished by their authenticity, calm and attentive manner of writing.

When he returned, he worked a lot in the vicinity of his native city, "explored" with a brush and a pencil in his hands his beloved Sokolniki and Fili, Kuntsevo and Mazilovo, Strogino and Bratsevo.

In 1869, a drawing textbook was published for the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture, on which Savrasov worked together with Pukirev.

"Detailed images of huts, villages, which are obligatory for an artist studying the Russian landscape" were made by Savrasov.

Since the beginning of the 1870s, new themes and images have entered the artist's work. He constantly made trips to the provinces: to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, to Kerzhenets, to the Oka, but most of all to the Volga, Yaroslavl, near Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Yuryevets, Bolgars near Kazan and Zhiguli. The Volga open spaces made a huge impression on him.

Particularly large-scale is the painting "Volga near Yuryevets", for which Alexei Kondratievich was awarded the first prize in the competition of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers in the spring of 1871.

The creation of Savrasov's main painting "The Rooks Have Arrived" was also connected with the Volga region.

Despite the fact that in February 1871 a newborn daughter died (already the third deceased child of the Savrasovs), his wife became seriously ill, and Savrasov was overwhelmed with sorrowful experiences, in the spring of 1871, under the influence of the “healing expanse”, the beauty of the ever-renewing, resurrecting nature, under the brush Savrasov, next to the sketches filled with mental pain, preparatory work for the painting "The Rooks Have Arrived" appears.

Then, upon his return to Moscow, the artist introduced new details and finalized the composition already in the studio. Finally, at the end of 1871, the painting "The Rooks Have Arrived" appeared before the visitors of the first exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, one of the founders and a member of the board of which was Savrasov.

Savrasov's worldview, his works were characterized by a very special musicality.

The seventies of the 19th century became for Savrasov the period of the highest creative flowering. As if having acquired new important knowledge about life and painting in his work on the Volga landscapes and "Rooks", he created many wonderful landscapes in this decade, infecting his pupils at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with his inspiration.

By the end of the 1870s, there was a certain decline in Savrasov's work. He exhibited less frequently. Diseases came, eyesight worsened. It gave a crack, and then the once happy family life broke up completely.

The tragedy of Savrasov's position was especially aggravated after 1882, when he was dismissed from the school and, deprived of a state-owned apartment, worldly unsettled, found himself aloof from artistic life. He started drinking. A lot of evidence has been preserved of the gradual transformation of the most intelligent, most delicate painter into an almost weak-willed alcoholic, giving away landscapes painted by a not always right hand almost for a bottle of "hot".

By the beginning of the 1890s, Savrasov changed many temporary shelters. He lived in the cheapest furnished rooms, hotels and almost in the slums. He had a new civil wife, Evdokia Mikhailovna Morgunova, children. The family lived hand to mouth. Old friends, in particular Tretyakov, tried to help the artist, but without much result.

But until the end of his life and career, Savrasov was still sensitive to the beauty of nature. Of course, among his works of the 1880-1890s there are many early-ripening landscapes painted to earn money, but he also created new wonderful works. In the last years of his life, Savrasov, an excellent draftsman, worked especially hard and successfully in graphics. In 1894, with the assistance of people close to him, an album of drawings was published, dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's creative life.

With all the drama of Savrasov's personal fate, the last years of his life were sometimes the triumph of the master's artistic ideas. When Alexei Kondratievich died in the fall of 1897, his beloved student and successor Levitan published an article in the newspaper “On the death of A.K. landscape painting and boundless love for his native land ... and this undoubted merit of his will never be forgotten in the field of Russian art."

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A.K. Denisov-Uralsky is a famous Russian artist who dedicated his work to his native land - the Urals. He has several paintings of similar subjects and with the same name - "Forest Fire". They were just written in different years. In the painting, created in 1897, the artist depicted the revelry of the elements, sweeping away everything in its path. Looking at the canvas, you understand how terrible and dangerous fire can be. From an affectionate, warming and life-giving light, it turns into a monster that devours everything around.

This is how the fire was depicted by A.K. Denisov-Uralsky in his painting. Fire looks like a huge, scary beast. The flame is so big and strong that giant pine trees look like toys next to it. The fire burns high above the tops of the trees. It stands as a solid wall, through which it is impossible to break through neither the beast nor the bird. Black smoke covers almost the entire sky. This hungry fire beast is about to devour the sun. It seems that another moment, and darkness will come, where there is no place for anything living.

The artist depicted the rampage of the elements with such skill that the viewer sees how rapidly the fire spreads, how quickly it moves through the dry grass, how trees flare up with bright flames, how gray haze descends on the surroundings. Behind a veil of smoke, trees are hidden to the left of the hearth of the conflagration. The smoke is so thick and acrid that the sun's rays cannot penetrate through it.

Terrible, and at the same time, a bewitching spectacle. Puffs of smoke with fire sparkling inside create bizarre images that cannot be stopped in their minute-by-minute variability. But A.K. Denisov-Uralsky succeeded.