Synopsis of the Russian language lesson in grade 4
Theme: Composition on the picture N. Roerich "Overseas guests"
Lesson type: Development of speech.
Purpose: Development of the ability to determine the theme of the picture, describe the picture, reveal the artist's intention, convey their attitude to the picture.
Formed UUD:
Cognitive: -conscious and arbitrary construction of a speech utterance in oral and written form;
Communicative: - possession of monologue and dialogical forms of speech in accordance with grammatical and syntactic norms native language;
Regulatory: - drawing up a plan and sequence of actions; making the necessary additions and adjustments to the plan and method of action;
Ability to mobilize strength and energy, to volitional effort;
Personal: - moral and ethical assessment of the assimilated content, providing a personal moral choice based on personal and social values.
Equipment: Interactive board, projector, computer, reproduction of N. Roerich's painting "Guests from overseas", portrait of N.K. Roerich,
Literature: material about the life and work of N.K. Roerich
textbook "Russian language" Grade 4 ed. V. Kanakina
UMK: "School of Russia" grade 4
Lesson stage
Teacher activity
Student activities
1. Organizing time
Greetings
Communication of the topic and purpose of the lesson
Today in the lesson you and I will continue to learn how to write an essay.
What is an essay?
Today we will write an essay based on the painting by N.K. Roerich
Essay on a picture - what is the name of the type of text?
The text of our composition is a description.
What is descriptive text?
How many pictures can be drawn according to the text - description and what question can you answer?
Description text.
Lots of adjectives.
You can draw one picture and answer the question, which picture?
2. Preparation for the perception of the picture
The story of the artist of the painting
The artist, whose picture we will describe today, is a man of extraordinary talent.
Nicholas Roerich was born on October 9, 1874 in St. Petersburg in the family of a famous notary. In 1883, Nicholas Roerich passed the entrance exams to one of the best and most expensive private schools in St. Petersburg - Karl von May's gymnasium. The exams were passed with such ease that von Maya exclaimed: "He will be a professor!" Nikolai's various hobbies included drawing, geography, archeology, history, collecting minerals, horse riding, and hunting.
In 1893 N. Roerich entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. At the same time, Nikolai entered the Faculty of Law at the University, attended the course of the Faculty of History and Philology.
Since the spring of 1918, the artist lived abroad, visited many countries
Nicholas Roerich is an outstanding figure in Russian and world culture. Artist, scientist, traveler, public figure, writer, thinker.
Read the text of exercise. 84.
What else have you learned about this man?
Listen to the teacher.
Read the text of the exercise.
They tell.
3.Examination of the painting
Let's take a walk through our art gallery.
An art gallery is opened. (p. 112)
Before us is a reproduction of Nicholas Roerich's painting "Guests from overseas".
- It was written in France in 1901. and is part of the series of paintings by Roerich "The Beginning of Russia. Slavs "Now you can see her in Moscow in the State Tretyakov Gallery... Consider it carefully.
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Share your impressions of viewing the painting.
What's on it?
What mood does the picture create?
What feelings, thoughts did the picture awaken in you?
- Let's take a closer look at the artist's work. The picture, as you can see, takes us into the depths of the centuries. Let's try to look at the picture like historians, touch history Ancient Rus.
Do you understand its content?
Why is the painting called "Overseas Guests"?
The plot of this work was born to the artist during a trip to Novgorod on the way "from the Varangians to the Greeks" (The trade route "from the Varangians to the Greeks"). This ancient trade route existed about 1000 years ago and passed along the main roads of that time through the Dvina Dnieper rivers, connecting the Varangian Sea (Baltic) with the Russian Sea (Black). The route passed through our Slavic lands, which were called White Russia, along the way, foreigners met such ancient Russian cities as Veliky Novgorod and Kiev. This most important trading branch was mastered by the Scandinavian Vikings. (vikings), whose purpose was to get to Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium,
the world's largest shopping center.
In the East Slavic lands, the Vikings were called Varangians(Varangians).
The Varangians were the best traders and warriors in Europe at that time. We still remember the Varangians when we are engaged in archeology, writing, folklore.
Do you understand now what kind of overseas guests are depicted by the artist?
Description of the picture ... Revealing the pictorial means of the picture. - Consider how long painted boats go along the river - overseas ships (rooks), loaded with goods. Let's describe the rooks.
Look at the water. How do you see her? -
What mood do you think the overseas guests are in?
The Varangians sail to the Slavic tribes with a mission of peace. The wave runs into Slavic life: through forests and swamps, fields and hills, to the walls of a distant city. Slavic peoples will see rare, unfamiliar guests, they will marvel at the battle formation, at their overseas custom. -Let's pay attention to the overseas guests themselves, to the Varangians. Describe them.
Let's look at the landscape of northern nature. What do overseas guests see around?
What mood does this picture evoke in you?
In the painting "Guests from Overseas" deep antiquity comes to life, it penetrates into our senses in the brilliance of dazzling colors, cheerful, vigorous, beautiful. The artist makes us become eyewitnesses of the events of the bright life of Ancient Russia. Roerich wrote that in order to understand the beauty of this Russia, one must fall in love with its glorious, dear, full of wild space and will.
- Express your attitude to the picture.
Consider the picture.
Share their impressions.
Sailing boats.
Joyful, cheerful.
Joy, peace.
Arrived from other countries. From abroad.
Clothes and weapons are not typical of the inhabitants of Ancient Rus, the flag on the mast of the ship is not Russian.
Rooks bright painted, sides decorated multicolored shields, striped scarlet sail are ablaze on background blue sky, bright coloring is burning in the sun, on noses
ships proudly heaving patterned head d racon, middle rooks covered painted with a veil (hint) that hides rowers from rain and heat.
Dark blue
river;
like water
soaked
blue
clear
sky;
wind
ripples
on
her;
v
transparent
clean
water
brightly
reflected
multicolored
(red,
green,
yellow,
blue)
stripes
and
circles
overseas
patterns.
The seagulls went down
on the waves
whirled
above
water.
Calmly,
G O
divinely,
smoothly
dissect water waves. They are sailing in a good mood.
The people enough many, who is sitting,
who
worth.
behold
they
v
helmets
heavy
metal,
shirts
with
patterns,
over
which
put on
protective
vest;
bushy
brows,
mustache;
somebody
intently,
looks with interest
v
distance
on
Slavic shores,
someone is talking,
shares
impressions.
Green hills, fields. Everything around
full strength, beauty. Plenty. On one from hills three
mound , on friend - hail, enclosed serf wall.
Cheerful, jubilantly e-joyful feeling
Drawing up an essay plan.
- We will write a text based on the content of this picture. Let's define what the text will be by type?
- Let's make an essay plan. How many parts are we going to highlight in the text? What are their names?
- What are we going to write about in the introduction?
- What are we going to write about in the main part? - Let's highlight two subtopics in the main part.
- How do we finish the composition?
The plan is written on the board.
1. Artist N. Roerich and his painting.
2.-Painted rooks.
- Northern nature
3. My attitude to the painting.
Description.
Introductory, main, final.
O N.K. Roerich and his painting.
About overseas guests sailing on painted boats. About the surrounding nature.
Let's express our attitude to the picture.
Speech and vocabulary training
- In writing the text, the text of the exercise will help you. 85.
- Let's make a proposal (s) that could be included in the 1st part.
We will make proposals for the main part.
- With what sentence can you start the main part?
- What can you tell us about painted rooks? Describe them.
- What paints did the artist use?
- Who swims in the boats?
- For what purpose did the Vikings go to foreign countries?
- Gaze at the landscape of northern nature. What time of year do you think Roerich portrayed? Let's pay attention to the paints. (It is difficult for us to determine the time of the year, but Roerich himself wrote that it was a spring day.)
- Let's try to determine what time of day?
- What is the weather? Can you feel the joyous glow of the spring sun? How can you make a proposal for a river (use the word "reflected")?
- Describe what is visible in the distance on the shore?
- What attracted you to the picture? Can we say that deep antiquity comes to life in the picture? History of Ancient Rus?
- Let's express our attitude to the picture. What mood did the artist's work evoke? What made you think about?
Before us is a painting by the artist Nicholas Roerich "Overseas guests".
Painted boats walk along the blue surface of the river in a long row .
It's a warm spring day. The deep blue river reflects red, yellow, green stripes and circles of overseas ship patterns.
Spelling work
How is each part of the essay formatted?
- As you write, pay attention to the texts of Exercises 84, 85. If you need help, raise your hand.
- Think before you write down the sentence. Having written down - check.
Words - helpers on the board.
An artist, painter, in the depths of time, depicted. Painted boats, coloring, sails, boards, decorated, multi-colored, patterned, Vikings, goods. The blue of the sky, shines, reflected, in the distance, hills, mounds, hail.
Deep antiquity, slightly opened, Ancient Russia, mood, feelings.
Sample text.
Before us is a painting by the artist Nicholas Roerich "Overseas guests". The work of the painter takes us deep into the times. In the painting, Roerich depicted overseas guests sailing to the Russian land.
Painted boats walk along the blue smooth surface of the river in a long row. The bright coloring of the ships burns in the sun. The wind blows Scarlet Sails... The boards are decorated with multi-colored shields. The patterned heads of dragons look forward proudly. The Varangians are sailing in the boats. They carry goods to foreign countries.
It's a warm spring day. Pure blue of heaven. The sun shines joyfully and affably. The deep blue river reflects red, yellow, green stripes and circles of overseas ship patterns. Snow-white seagulls descended on the waves and whirled over the water. All around there are green hills and fields. In the distance, on one of the hills, the walls of the castle are visible. The Russian land is beautiful and rich!
In N. Roerich's painting, deep antiquity comes to life. The artist's work revealed to me the history of Ancient Russia, which every Russian person should know and respect. The picture caused me joyful, bright feelings.
Writing text to draft
Students writing an essay in a draft.
D / z. write an essay in a notebook.
Roerich - Overseas guests
In front of me is the image of the painting "Overseas Guests" by Nicholas Roerich, an outstanding Russian painter. This work is included in the cycle “The Beginning of Russia. Slavs". Everyone can find this picture at the Tretyakov Gallery. The artist was very fond of visiting historical sites and imagining what happened in these places hundreds of years ago.
Looking at the picture, I immediately noticed the seagulls. They seem to strive to cross the elusive boundaries of the canvas and are about to fly out into the wild. The bright blue sea is also depicted in such a way that its depth seems real and you can plunge into it, feel the cool freshness of salt water, if you come very close to the picture. The water is so clear and transparent that you can even see the stones lying at the bottom. Areas of land are also visible, hills with small settlements, houses of the Slavs smoothly turn into flat terrain.
One cannot but pay attention to the main fragment of the work - massive wooden ships with bright scarlet sails. Ancient Varangian tribes must be sailing on the ships. You can look at the ships of these warriors for a long time, because Roerich emphasized everything small parts, patterns, shields, a wooden dragon head. The local residents are not visible, no one is in a hurry to meet the overseas guests, which means that the battle is not expected, they sail in peace.
The work of N.K. Roerich bewitches with its rich colors. An exciting, fantastic atmosphere of some ancient legends and epics is created. The painting is so filled with life that it seems as if the artist really watched all these events.
Composition-description of the painting Overseas guests
In front of me is the canvas of the great Russian artist "Overseas Guests". At first glance, the unique style of the creator is recognized - bright colorful tones, richness and saturation of each stroke.
In the central composition of the picture there are two wonderful boats, smoothly gliding along the blue-transparent waters of the sea to the shore. They arrived from afar, spent a lot of time on this journey. The scarlet sails are tightly stretched, full of wind, it seems as if you can hear its whistle and rustle in the canvas. The long, heavy oars are folded, it's time for the wind to work hard, the knights are resting. Ripples run through the water, parting in front of the mighty ships, beating anxiously against the stern. The blurred reflection of the majestic boat in the waters of the calm coast plays and shimmers in the sun's rays, glittering mischievously.
The bow of the ship is decorated with wooden decorative figures in the form of dragon heads, carved by skillful hands, in battle they must frighten the enemies of the Vikings.
Immediately nailed down are colorful wooden shields showing skill, prowess, and the ability to stand up for oneself.
The people on the ship are dressed in metal chain mail and helmets, probably on the belt of each of them hangs a sword-kladenets, weighty and stern in battle.
Overseas guests-Varangians whisper quietly among themselves, marvel at the unusual views and landscapes that have opened up to their eyes.
Alarmed seagulls, overtaking the boats, screaming, carry on their snow-white wings the news of the newly arrived guests.
In the background, on the right side, you can see the earth. Among the high hills, covered with a dozen shades of emerald and light green, a gentle carpet of greenery is spreading grass, and at the top is a small village. The sea air is opposed The Russian lands are freely and widely spread. In the distance on the horizon, a lonely island can be seen. The blue sky is drowning in the blue waters of the sea.
Guests will receive a warm welcome, in the overseas lands, here they will find comrades in military affairs and establish trade routes. But so far, not a single human figure can be seen on the shore. The weather favors their deeds, the sky is clear, not a cloud, not a cloud. Nature shines and shines with its beauty, striking the imagination of foreigners.
The picture looks like an illustration fairy tale about heroes, magical charm emanates from this colorful work of art.
The artist, inspired by the light image of Russian nature, with love and awe, masterfully, realistically, using only his subjects colors as if, a sorcerer, depicts wonderful motives ancient history Slavs.
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Overseas guests (1902)
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947). Russian Museum
Nicholas Roerich is an artist-philosopher, artist-mystic, artist-wanderer, artist-archeologist, artist-writer.
The legacy of Nicholas Roerich is an exceptional phenomenon in the history of Russian and world art. His canvases are attractive for the originality of themes and plots, their poetry, deep symbolism. Roerich's bright life is like an amazing legend. Having started his journey in Russia, having gone through Europe and America, he finished it in Asia.
There are artists whose life bears the stamp of their unusual nature, original and distinctive attitude to the world. Even short biography Nicholas Roerich is reminiscent of not just a fascinating story, but a whole novel. Soviet art critic I. Petrov notes that he was "a remarkable painter, tireless traveler, passionate researcher, philosopher and poet. He lived in France and Switzerland, Belgium and Holland, England and Germany, Finland and the USA, China and Japan; Ceylon, Philippines and Hong Kong, last years lived in India. "
Not only creativity, but also N. Roerich's bright personality attracted people to him, even during his lifetime his fame became almost legendary. Roerich's paintings, of which there are more than 5000, can be found in leading museums and art collections around the world. In Russia, perhaps, there is no museum or gallery that does not possess several of his works. In some museums, entire rooms are dedicated exclusively to his paintings, and a 29-story building was erected in his honor in New York City in 1929. It seems that for the first time in history a whole museum was built for the masterpieces of one artist during his lifetime. One of the features of N. Roerich's art, which determined all the directions of his creative searches, was the desire to embody in painting the images of the distant, heroic past, to penetrate into the meaning of ancient legends, to convey all the poetic beauty of folk life.
Kievan Rus, Viking raids, legends of the Ancient East attracted Roerich at the very beginning of his creative activity... Speaking in 1898-1899 at the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute with a series of lectures "Artistic technique as applied to archeology", he said: to fantasize, hoping for the unpreparedness of the audience, but in fact it is necessary to study ancient life, as soon as possible, to be imbued with it, soaked through and through. "
The best example of such a penetration into the past was the historical paintings of the great V. Surikov. But he devoted his work to the events of the Muscovy of the XVI-XVII centuries. And the historical layer that fascinated N. Roerich went back to the times of Kievan Rus and even further - up to the Stone Age. For the artist, history becomes a living part of folk life, the source of the national principle in Russian art is for him the Russian people, who created amazingly beautiful poetic tales, songs, and art products. "When you look at the ancient painting, at the old tiles or ornaments, you think:" What a beautiful life was! What kind strong people lived it! How vital and close to everyone was art ... "- exclaimed N. Roerich.
V Russian art N. Roerich entered immediately as a mature master. He graduated from the Academy of Arts with his diploma painting "Messenger. Clan Rebelled", which was warmly greeted by I. Repin and V. Surikov and acquired from the exhibition by P.M. Tretyakov. After "The Messenger", on the advice of I. Repin, N. Roerich left for Paris to the studio of the famous historical painter F. Corman.
The French artist immediately saw that he had an established master in front of him, and took great care of his bright, original talent. When N. Roerich left France, his soul was already full of images of Ancient Russia. Soon he created a cycle of paintings entitled "The Beginning of Russia. Slavs".
"Guests from Overseas" is one of the paintings in this cycle, written in 1901. She immediately received universal recognition, and the artist made several repetitions of it. The picture also has its own literary version in the novella written by N. Roerich in 1900. With well-aimed, artistically precise words, he describes floating boats, the noses of which are completed with painted carved dragons. On their sides motley shields glittering in the sun, and wind-filled sails strike fear into enemies. The boats are sailing along the Neva and Volkhov, the Dnieper and Lake Ilmen - to Constantinople itself. Varangians go to bargaining or to service ...
Also in the picture, painted Varangian boats are slowly moving towards the viewer along the blue smooth surface of the serene sea. The patterned heads of griffins-dragons rise proudly, the steep sides of the ships are decorated with multi-colored shields, the scarlet sails glow against the blue of the sky. The Vikings crowded at the stern peer into the distance opening in front of them with curiosity.
The picture also attracts with its colorful festivity. Open, tense tones create a sense of joyful chime of vibrant colors. Red and blue, blue and golden-brown colors in the decoration of ships, in nature and in people's clothing, sound especially close to the whiteness of light clouds and the wings of seagulls flying over the sea. The picturesqueness of this picture opens up to the viewer (as well as to the Varangians) a new, hitherto unknown country. And now we already recognize the pattern folk ornaments and the conviviality of ancient Russian art. In the memory of the audience, favorite stories from childhood about people of bygone times, about a glorious life, fanned by so many poetic legends, come to life. Beyond the centuries, where true story merges with the myth, and the fabulous turns into reality, these guests live, who came from a foreign country to see Great Russia.
Not only the boats and the Varangians in helmets sitting in them are historic, but also the landscape of nature itself. The wavy lines of green hills with rounded boulders in some places are the result of the movement of glaciers, which smoothed and softened the sharp reliefs of the northern landscape. At the top of one hill, three burial mounds are visible - these are the burials of the leaders. On the other - a Slavic town fortified by the tyn and towers, from where, perhaps, the inhabitants look at the flotilla not only with alarm and excitement, but also with curiosity.
The skill of N. Roerich, with which he painted multi-colored plows illuminated by the sunset rays and burning in the sun, is amazing. The dense blue of the waves cut by ships laden with goods; green hills and walls of hailstones rising in the distance; the pure blue of the skies, the joyful radiance of the morning sun - everything makes you believe in a wonderful fairy tale.
The picture is full of movement - now slow-heavy in the smooth movement of the rooks, now noisy and light in the hubbub of seagulls and the swing of oars. The motionless, like sleeping hills only enhance the impression of the solemn arrival of guests.
But, peering into the picture, we will not find in it brightly and vividly painted faces, separate characters, peculiar individuals. The faces of the Vikings are barely distinguishable, and the inhabitants of Russian cities are not visible at all. The Russian artist S. Makovsky noted: “The faces of people on Roerich's canvases are almost invisible. They are faceless ghosts of centuries. without a name ... They do not exist separately and as if they never existed: as if before, for a long time, in an obvious life, they lived with a common thought and a common feeling, together with trees, stones and monsters of antiquity.
On these canvases, shimmering with the dark luxury of ancient mosaics or flooded with pale waves of light, a person sometimes only imagines ... But half-visible, invisible - he is everywhere. "
Indeed, the image created in the painting "Guests from Overseas" is not an abstract image. The sun shines uniquely in the waves and in the sails. The elegant Varangian ships are distinctive; they have their own "face" also near the green coastal hills, near the houses and walls of a distant city. In its silent buildings, in the sleepy unhurriedness of valleys and mountains, one can feel the dormant power of the country.
The artist transports the viewer into the depths of the centuries, and he becomes an eyewitness to the bright pagan life of Ancient Russia. And it is not individual heroes, not an entertaining historical episode, but, as it were, re-read pages of the chronicles, that stand before him.
One of the most mysterious artists, Nicholas Roerich was born on October 9. During his life, he created about seven thousand paintings. Roerich is called one of the brightest figures of Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Even a short biography of the artist looks like an amazing novel. He managed to travel almost the whole world. Roerich lived in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, England, Finland, USA, China, traveled to Ceylon, the Philippines, and spent the last years in India. During the Russian period, the artist created the famous series of paintings "The Beginning of Russia. Slavs". One of the most striking works of the series is the painting "Overseas Guests".
Nicholas Roerich was interested in history and painting from childhood. His parents did not support his passion for art. His father was a notary and was preparing his son for a legal career. Nevertheless, Nicholas Roerich simultaneously entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University and the Imperial Academy of Arts. Studied in the studio of the artist Arkhip Kuindzhi. Roerich's diploma painting "The Messenger (A Clan of the People Rebelled)" was immediately acquired by the collector Pavel Tretyakov.
Nicholas Roerich “Messenger (Clan to Clan Rebelled), 1897
After graduating from the Academy, Roerich worked a lot in historical genre, he went on a big trip across Russia, visiting more than 40 cities. The artist studied the roots of Russian culture, historical monuments. During the trip, he created about 90 sketches and took photographs, which were included in the book by the artist Igor Grabar "History of Russian Art". Based on the impressions of this trip, Nicholas Roerich created the cycle “The Beginning of Rus. Slavs". For a year he went to Paris to study painting in the studio of the artist F. Cormon. In France, the artist created the painting "Overseas guests" (canvas, oil 85х112.5).
Nicholas Roerich "Guests from overseas", 1901
The painting "Guests from Overseas" immediately received universal recognition, the artist made several repetitions from it. Roerich said: “In order for a historical picture to make an impression, it is necessary that it transports the viewer into a bygone era. For this, the artist must not invent and fantasize, hoping for the unpreparedness of the audience, but in fact it is necessary to study ancient life, as soon as possible, to be imbued with it, soaked through ”. At the exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts "Overseas guests" in 1902 was acquired by Nicholas II for the Tsarskoselsky Palace. Now she is in the Tretyakov Gallery.
The painting has the author's title "Folk Painting", which resembles the motives and colors of folk painting. In the painting "Overseas Guests" there are symbols and elements that can be seen in icons or in the works of masters applied arts- rooks, a combination of red, blue, white. And at the same time, the work has a certain decorativeness that reflects the Art Nouveau style. Not only the boats and the Varangians in helmets sitting in them are historic, but also the landscape of nature itself. At the top of one hill, three burial mounds are visible - these are the burials of the leaders. On the other - a fortified Slavic town. Nicholas Roerich admired the history of Ancient Russia, he said: “When you look at the ancient painting, at the old tiles or ornaments, you think:“ What a beautiful life was! What strong people lived by it! How vital and close to everyone was art ... ".
Roerich was not only a master of painting, but also of words. The painting "Guests from Overseas" has a very poetic description given by the artist: "The midnight guests are sailing. The gently sloping coast of the Gulf of Finland stretches in a light stripe. The water seemed to be saturated with the blue of the clear spring sky; the wind ripples along it, driving off dull purple stripes and circles. A flock of seagulls sank onto the waves, swayed carelessly on them, and only under the keel of the front boat flashed its wings<…>... The rooks go in a long row! Bright coloring burns in the sun. The bows were famously wrapped, ending with a high, slender nose. "
The picture has one more feature - the artist did not depict a clear face in any of the characters. This feature there is also in many other works of Nicholas Roerich. The artist Sergei Makovsky said the following about this feature: “The faces of people on Roerich's canvases are almost invisible. They are the faceless ghosts of centuries. Like trees and beasts, like quiet stones of dead villages, like monsters of folk antiquity, they are merged with the elements of life in the fogs of the past. They are without a name ... They do not exist separately, and as if they never existed: as if before, for a long time, in an obvious life, they lived with a common thought and a common feeling, together with trees, stones and monsters of antiquity. "
Sonorous, contrasting colors add up to a bright mosaic that transports viewers to the distant world of Ancient Russia. Art critics consider the painting "Guests from Overseas" to be one of the artist's most powerful works.
Five interesting facts about Nicholas Roerich
1 ... Until 1917 Nicholas Roerich lived in Russia. During this period, he was engaged in archeology, collecting, designing and painting churches, participated in projects to revive Russian antiquity. The artist also actively worked as a set designer. He created sets and costumes for theater performances, several productions of Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. One of his most famous theatrical works is the ballet The Rite of Spring to music by Igor Stravinsky.
2. During the February Revolution, the Roerich family was in Finland, which closed the borders with Russia. So in 1917 Nicholas Roerich with his wife Elena and two sons was cut off from their homeland. He managed to take out some of the paintings. In Finland, Roerich creates paintings dedicated to Karelia, writes part of the future poetry collection "Flowers of Moria". In 1918, the artist moved to Sweden, then to London, hoping to fulfill his old dream - a trip to India. However, due to financial difficulties, the trip had to be postponed.
3. Nicholas Roerich was the first Russian artist to be offered an exhibition in 30 US cities at once. This massive three-year tour was organized by the Art Institute of Chicago. Nicholas Roerich and his family moved to New York in 1920, where his first personal exhibition... Further, his exhibitions were held in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and other cities and were a great success. In the USA, Roerich finds both new students and financial support. The artist's beginnings were sponsored by broker Louis Horsch. He also found money for Roerich's trip to India, where the artist and his family went in 1923. With the assistance of Horsch, the Roerich Museum was opened in 1929 in New York. Why was the 29-storey Art Deco-style Master Building skyscraper built? In addition to the museum, the building housed the Master's Institute of United Arts and an apparatus-hotel. True, in 1938, after scandals with the artist, Horsch completely took over the building.
4 ... From the 1920s to the 1940s, the East was the main theme in the work of Nicholas Roerich. He created the series "Teachers of the East", a series about the images of women "Mother of the World", painted pictures consecrated to nature and mountains. His art was dominated by philosophical quest... Together with his wife Helena Roerich, the artist promoted the spiritual teaching of Agni Yoga or "Living Ethics". The idea of the teaching is that the meaning of the evolution of mankind is spiritual improvement. And the most important factor of manifestation human spirit on Earth - culture, therefore, according to Roerich, the preservation and promotion of the spiritual values of culture is the main task of society.
Nicholas Roerich "Testament of the Teacher", 1947
Nicholas Roerich died in Kullu on December 13, 1947. The artist bequeathed to bury himself according to Indian custom. Roerich's philosophical undertakings were continued by his sons - orientalist Yuri Roerich and artist Svyatoslav Roerich.
Svyatoslav Roerich "Portrait of Professor Nicholas Roerich in a Tibetan dress", 1928
5. In the collection of the Voronezh Museum. I. N. Kramskoy has two monumental expositions of Nicholas Roerich "Morning of the princes of the hunt" (oil on canvas 1901). The plot motif in this work is fused with the landscape, which sets a special, "historical" mood.
Nicholas Roerich "Morning of the princes of the hunt", 1901
The material used data from the book "One Hundred Great Pictures" by N. A. Ionin.
But Roerich has an unusual approach. His realism is expressed in the fact that he wants to hear and see in nature such aesthetic sounds and colors, such a truth of life that only he knew. Namely, Roerich, in the pulsating life of our planet, heard those life-affirming, evolutionary cosmic tones that only a highly cultured, musical spirit can perceive.
Painting by Nicholas Roerich "Overseas guests"
N. Roerich's painting "Overseas Guests" was written in 1901. Two years earlier, the artist traveled along the great waterway to Novgorod"From the Varangians to the Greeks".
This ancient trade route existed about 1000 years ago and passed along the main roads of that time through the Dvina and Dnieper rivers, connecting the Varangian Sea (Baltic) with the Russian Sea (Black). The route passed through our Slavic lands, which were called White Russia, along the way, foreigners met such ancient Russian cities as Veliky Novgorod and Kiev. This most important trade branch was mastered by the Scandinavian Vikings (Vikings), whose goal was to get to Constantinople - the capital of Byzantium, the largest world trade center. In the East Slavic lands, the Vikings were called Varangians (Varangians). The Varangians were the best traders and warriors in Europe at that time. We still remember the Varangians when we are engaged in archeology, writing, folklore.
The journey amazed the artist.
He imagined how the Varangians sailed along this path many years ago to the Slavic land, how the Novgorodians set off on campaigns, how the plows of the Novgorod merchant Sadko cut the water boat.
Then the artist came up with the idea to paint a picture about guests from across the sea who sailed to the Russians for the world.
Before us is a painting by the artist Nicholas Roerich "Overseas guests". The work of the painter takes us deep into the times.
In the painting, Roerich depicted overseas guests sailing to the Russian land.
Painted boats walk along the blue smooth surface of the river in a long row. The bright coloring of the ships burns in the sun. The wind blows the scarlet sails. The boards are decorated with multi-colored shields. The patterned heads of dragons look forward proudly. The Varangians are sailing in the boats. They carry goods to foreign countries.
Lightly strong boats cut through unfamiliar waters. The guests are carefully peering into foreign shores. The artist clearly prescribed the smallest details of the decoration of foreign ships, from the shields at the stern to the patterned carvings crowned with the dragon's head. Stones at the bottom are visible through the clear water.
It's a warm spring day. Pure blue of heaven. The sun shines joyfully and affably. The deep blue river reflects red, yellow, green stripes and circles of overseas ship patterns. Snow-white seagulls descended on the waves and whirled over the water.
Everything is calm in the alien side. The water is not worried. Ripples from ships only run along it. The water is so blue, as if the blue of heaven had mixed with it. A flock of seagulls sat peacefully on the water surface. But strange alien ships frightened off the birds. And now they are screaming around the boat, curious who it was brought by the fair wind.
And not a single person can be seen on the shore. A settlement of the Slavs can be seen in the distance. But they are not worried about the appearance of overseas guests. Militant Slavic tribes are used to defending their righteousness and independence by force. That is why the guests are sailing to the Slavic shores, to make peace, to end the enmity.
All around there are green hills and fields. In the distance, on one of the hills, the walls of the castle are visible. The Russian land is beautiful and rich!
The picture amazes the viewer with the brightness of colors, some kind of light purity. How can you fight among this blue splendor, stretching far, far, to the very horizon!
In N. Roerich's painting, deep antiquity comes to life. The artist's work reveals the history of Ancient Russia, which every Russian person should know and respect. The picture evokes joyful, bright feelings.