Biography of the landscape painter Levitan

Chapter three - to the sun in the fall - the usual surge of strength. Chekhov is worried about Levitan's health; He writes to him the truth: “Either cheerful, then I lie and breathe heavily, like a fish without water, the disease is quite significant. I work a lot. The paintings I have launched take a lot of effort ”But he does not depart from the easel.

He even agreed to participate in the illustration of the three -volume Pushkin together with his comrades V. Serov, K. Korovin and others. Poetry was the same for Levitan as nature and music. You can’t just say that he loved poetry. The poetic lines of Pushkin, Tyutchev, Nekrasov became his own thoughts. And now, looking at three volumes of Pushkin in a bright cream binding, reading the poems that Levitan took for himself, we seem to be leafing through the pages of his most secret diary.

He transferred the words of the poet to the drawings, he, the artist, at that time was one whole with the poet. What did Levitan choose for illustrations, who would not make a single drawing to the work, not consonant with his own feelings? And we seem to penetrate the soul of the artist. He could repeat after Pushkin: I survived my desires, I fell out of love with my dreams and the last lines to which the drawing was made: one - a belated sheet trembles on a naked branch!

Snow and edge of the dark forest. In front of him is a thin tree with bare branches, and only one of them caught a trembling dry leaf. How much feelings, thoughts and how sparingly they are expressed in this illustration! .. Another drawing to the poem "The None of the Day has gone out." It is necessary to find a lot, to change his mind, to give a drawing to these lines, so accurately expressing the poet’s thought.

The dark silhouette of the forest, an alarming, blasphemy sky, a full moon comes out from behind the cloud. The artist takes other poems by Pushkin, in which hope, appeal, faith in the future. He draws the raging waves of the sea, which has no end. And he turns to these waves with the freedom stanzas of the poet: goodbye, free element!

The last time in front of me you rolled the waves of the poet's blue waves are close to the artist, he agrees with Pushkin. The fate of people is the same everywhere; Where is good, there is already a guard or enlightenment, or tyrant. Does he not know the justice of these words? When it is so difficult to breathe around, then for Levitan there is less and less healing air. The most successful drawing that the artist appreciated himself and photographed for his memory was Pushkin's favorite poem.

The road curls with a field, rises to the hillock, disappears after it. On one side of the road - two tall pine trees stuck on young pines, and they are closely pressed against the trunks of their parents - their friendly children. On the other side of the road, a lonely pine misses the road. The thought of Pushkin’s poems expressed the idea of ​​the poems of Pushkin so simply and very clearly: Hello, I will see your mighty late age when you develop my acquaintances and overshadow the old chapter from the eyes of a passerby.

But let my grandson hear your greeting noise ... Levitan also knew that he would not live for the time being, when the young, unfamiliar tribe mature. But all his work was addressed to these strong people of the future who will learn how to make life beautiful on this beautiful earth. He believed in this and wrote his joyful, full -skinned canvases for them. Popation in the fall in the courtyard of the school of painting, sculptures and architecture from carts unloaded trees in tubs, green and brown moss, Christmas trees, dry branches with yellowed leaves.

Levitan, the newly invited professor of the landscape workshop, disposed of unloading. He was pale, tired, walked, leaning on a stick. But the revival shone in his eyes. He fussed, looked cheerfully at green plants and asked to bring everything brought to the workshop. Pupils who came to the first lesson were surprised that they were in the forest instead of a class.

They impatiently waited for a meeting with the professor. The landscape workshop was restored after several years of the break. Levitan willingly agreed to take on the leadership: he was only afraid of whether he had enough strength. But, apparently, these decreasing forces prompted him to the decision. In each picture, even a slight sketch, I saw what I called Kramskoy in the picture “soul” I saw this soul not only in Levitan’s paintings, but also in his studies.

In my opinion, no one like Levitan did not know and did not like our poor Russian nature. Not only that, he had the gift of force others to understand and love her. Isaac Levitan ISAAK-LEVITAN. All rights are protected. For letters: hi a isak-levitan.