A pictorial work - a painting by Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar " February blue"written in 1904 has a special poetry. February is a month of struggle between winter, which does not want to give up its rights, and just a premonition of the approach of spring, its light breath. A long wait for the awakening of all nature after a quiet winter sleep.
Winter does not give up its position; it frightens us with frosts and snow blizzards. But even in February there is sunny weather, when you immediately pay attention to nature, which is always amazingly beautiful. It’s just that in our hectic world, we sometimes don’t find time to pay attention and look around. Grabar, as a true artist, could not remain indifferent to such beauty and gave us this magnificent landscape.
In the foreground of the picture there is a birch tree covered with the thinnest layer of lacy frost, shimmering and sparkling even under the dim rays of the sun. A little further away you can see younger and still “teenage” birches with thin trunks. It seems that with their branches spread out, they slowly spin in a smooth round dance, like young girls celebrating Maslenitsa and welcoming the arrival of spring. Only the forest in the background separates heaven and earth. If you stand in front of this picture for a while, it will suddenly seem that you can clearly hear Russian folk song about birch. After all, the birch tree is a symbol of Russia, its beauty, so people composed many songs about it, both funny and sad.
White-trunked beauties are depicted against the backdrop of an azure snow blanket and an almost identical color of the winter sky. These tones, which the painter so generously uses, carry coolness and purity, like the breath of the breeze and the smells of the still approaching silent light tread of spring.
Such shades of azure, turquoise, blue are like a gift from our Russian nature in the most blizzard winter month in the vastness of Russia. The entire canvas creates a feeling of an approaching holiday,
Igor Emmanuilovich also liked the painting February Blue. He often talked about how amazing inspiration suddenly came to create it. Grabar saw such a landscape in the Moscow region on a frosty sunny morning, going for a walk. He was struck by the color of azure, which seemed to envelop everything around, and only the birch trees, stretching out their branches, as if in a dance, diluted these incredible colors of pearls, coral, sapphire and turquoise. All together it looked like a fairy-tale island in the glow of precious stones.
The artist was amazed at the fantastic beauty of the birch branches in this chime of all shades of the rainbow, against the background of the blue sky. Against the background of the turquoise sky, last year’s foliage, which survived at the very top of the birch tree, seems golden. As if fulfilling the painter’s wishes, the sunny days lasted for almost two weeks, allowing Grabar to capture this miracle. It seemed like nature was posing talented artist, showing off her grace in winter attire. Fuzzy lines have the effect of filling the picture with light and air.
The artist uses very light pure shades, resulting in a crystal chime blue color– from delicate turquoise to sparkling ultramarine. The canvas is reminiscent of paintings by famous French impressionists.
Today, Grabar’s painting “February Azure” is in the State Tretyakov Gallery. Canvas size 141 by 83 cm
Repin's student outstanding artist and the tireless cultural figure Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar during his long career created many masterpieces of painting. The main genres in which the artist worked were portrait and landscape. Almost all the landscapes painted by Grabar glorify the beauty of the Russian region. One of his most famous works is the painting “February Blue,” painted in 1904.
Author biography
Before studying at the Imperial Academy of Arts, I. E. Grabar successfully received a law degree and philological education at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1894, Grabar began to study painting in higher school at the Academy of Arts, where his direct mentor was I. E. Repin himself. Grabar continued to study painting until 1901. He spent several years abroad, in Munich and Paris.
Over his long 90 years of life, Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar influenced the development of Russian painting and culture, not only creating many but also being an active figure in various artistic associations, as well as the creator of restoration workshops, trustee and director of the Tretyakov Gallery.
Famous works
Most widely famous works The artist is exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, among them the painting “February Azure”, as well as the canvases “March Snow”, “Untidy Table” and “Chrysanthemums”. All of the above works were written in the 1900s. - a period recognized as the most inspired and productive in the artistic career of I. E. Grabar.
Many of early works the artist are characterized by the realism inherent in the Academic school, however, throughout his studies and future career Grabar chose the one most suitable for himself artistic method- divisionism. All of the artist’s completed works were written in this style.
Divisionism in painting
Divisionism is an offshoot of a painting method called pointillism, which is based on the manner of painting or drawing with dots. Points can be isolated from each other or non-isolated.
Divisionism became a distinct style thanks to its complex, almost mathematical approach to image creation. A special characteristic of the style is its almost 100% rejection. Divisionism is based on the division of a complex color or shade into a number of “pure colors” and applying them to the canvas with strokes of the correct shape (not necessarily dots). The strokes are applied with the precise expectation that as a result the viewer will see exactly the shade that was originally divided into the spectrum of its constituent colors.
The history of the creation of “February Azure”
Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is one of those artists who are not afraid to leave the beaten path and strive to paint the familiar with new colors.
Even during his studies, Grabar showed interest especially in those that reveal to the viewer the simple beauty of the Russian winter. Snow allows you to make the most of the visual advantage of the divisionist technique.
The painting (Grabar) “February Azure” was inspired by the moment. Walking through the winter Moscow region, Grabar looked at a beautiful, tall birch tree, with incredibly slender, almost symmetrical branches. The author raised his head and saw a cascade of colors and shades above him - the magic of nature created by birch branches, sky blue and many incredible, somehow not winter shades. This sight impressed the artist so much that his most famous painting was painted under the influence of the moment.
Painting “February Azure”: description and analysis
Both the author of the picture and many critics see something fantastic, fabulous in a simple, unpretentious image. The birch, like a magical bird, spread its rich wings across the expanse of the blue sky. Bright splashes of green and brown create the feeling of approaching spring - it is not here yet, but as if it is about to come around the corner.
Why the painting is called “February Blue” and not something else is explained by the technique of execution. In divisionism, artists try not to mix paints, and the necessary shades are created through a process of strategically calculated combination of strokes made with “pure” colors. In “February Blue” there is heavenly blue, against which rainbow birch trees shine - that very blue.
A distinctive feature of the artist I. E. Grabar was the ability to transform everyday landscapes, things and images familiar to Russian people into magical paintings and fabulous canvases filled with color, air and deep reverent love for the native land. The painting (Grabar) “February Azure” is a clear confirmation of this.
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Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871-1960)
Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar - painter, was born on March 13, 1871 in Budapest, in the family of the Russian public figure E. I. Grabar.
Igor's childhood was not easy. The boy was often separated from his parents, remaining in the care of strangers. Since childhood, he dreamed of painting, tried to be closer to artistic circles, visited all exhibitions, studied the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.
From 1882 to 1989, Grabar studied at the Moscow Lyceum, and from 1889 to 1895 at St. Petersburg University at two faculties - law and history and philology. After graduating from university, he entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts
In 1895, he studied in the workshop of Ilya Repin, where Malyavin, Somov, and Bilibin studied at the same time.
Summer 1895, during the holidays, Grabar travels around Europe, visiting Berlin, Paris, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples. He is so fascinated by his creations greatest artists Renaissance, that he decides to travel further and enlighten himself.
Returning to Russia in 1901, the artist was again shocked by the beauty of Russian nature. He is mesmerized by the beauty of the Russian winter, admired by the “grace” and “magnetism” of the magical birch tree. His admiration for Russia after a long separation was expressed in the paintings: “White Winter”, “February Azure”, “March Snow” and many others.
In the period from 1913 to 1925, the artist headed Tretyakov Gallery. Here Grabar carried out a re-exposition, placing and systematizing all works of art in historical sequence. In 1917 he published a gallery catalog, which has significant scientific value.
Igor Emmanuilovich is one of the founders of museology, restoration work and the protection of monuments of art and antiquity. In 1918, the artist created the Central Restoration Workshop. He helped save many works of ancient Russian art and the result of the work of the workshops was the discovery of numerous outstanding monuments of ancient Russian art - icons and frescoes in Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir and other cities.
In 1926-30 Grabar was the editor of the department fine arts Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
From 1924 until the end of the 1940s, Grabar again returned to painting, paying special attention to portraits, depicting his loved ones, scientists and musicians. Among his famous portraits are “Portrait of a Mother”, “Svetlana”, “Portrait of a Daughter against the Background of a Winter Landscape”, “Portrait of a Son”, “Portrait of Academician S. A. Chaplygin”. Two self-portraits of the artist “Self-portrait with a palette” and “Self-portrait in a fur coat” are also widely known.
In Soviet times, Grabar became interested in the works of Andrei Rublev and I. E. Repin. In 1937, he created a two-volume monograph “Repin”. This work brought Grabar the Stalin Prize. Since 1944, Grabar has been director of the Institute of Art History of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Igor Emmanuilovich died on May 16, 1960 in Moscow.
The history of the creation of the painting “February Blue”
“February Azure” is the most famous landscape by I.E. Grabar. The artist painted the canvas “February Azure” with special love and put part of his soul into it. He managed to create new image Russian nature. Even in a small reproduction, “February Azure” is bright, colorful, and creates the impression of a holiday. This landscape was especially dear to the artist himself. In his declining years, I. Grabar recalled with pleasure and spoke in detail about how this landscape was created. The artist saw “February Azure” in the Moscow region while visiting a friend. It is impossible better than the author himself to convey the admiration for the beauty of nature that he experienced.
About the birth of his favorite painting, “February Blue,” his detailed story: “Wonderful sunny February days have arrived. In the morning, as always, I went out to wander around the estate and observe. Something extraordinary was happening in nature; it seemed that she was celebrating some unprecedented holiday - a holiday of the azure sky, pearl birches, coral branches and sapphire shadows on lilac snow. I stood near a marvelous specimen of birch, rare in the rhythmic structure of its branches. Looking at her, I dropped the stick and bent down to pick it up. When I looked at the top of the birch from below, from the surface of the snow, I was stunned by the spectacle of fantastic beauty that opened before me: some kind of chimes and echoes of all the colors of the rainbow, united by the blue enamel of the sky. “If only a tenth of this beauty could be conveyed, then it would be incomparable,” I thought and immediately ran for a small canvas and in one session sketched a sketch of the future painting from life. The next day I took another canvas and within three days painted a sketch from the same place. After that, I dug a trench over a meter thick in deep snow, in which I placed myself with an easel and a large canvas in order to get the impression of a low horizon and the heavenly zenith with all the gradations of blue - from light green below to ultramarine above. I prepared the canvas in advance in the studio for glazing the sky, covering it over the chalky, oil-absorbing surface with a thick layer of dense lead white of various tones.
February was amazing. It froze at night and the snow did not let up. The sun shone every day, and I was lucky enough to paint in a row without a break or change in weather for about two and a half weeks, until I finished the painting entirely on location. I painted with an umbrella painted blue, and I placed the canvas not only without the usual tilt forward, facing the ground, but by turning its front side to the blue of the sky, which is why reflexes from the hot snow under the sun did not fall on it and it remained in the cold shadows, forcing me to triple the strength of color to convey the fullness of the impression. I felt that I was able to create the most significant work Of all the things I have written so far, it is the most original, not borrowed, new in concept and execution.” The artist was able to fully convey the chimes of pure color - the color of the sky illuminated by the bright February sun, snow and the silvery trunk of a birch tree...
In “February Azure”, birch is an integral part, if not the only basis artistic image. The very appearance of the birch tree, the ability to see its charm in the general structure of the Russian landscape, reflected a joyful perception of nature native land, which distinguishes Grabar the landscape painter in all periods of his work. Of all the birches ever depicted by Grabar, in the birch of “February Blue” there is Grabarev’s poetry landscape painting reached its culmination... It was necessary to master not only the skill of a painter, but also an extraordinary feeling of falling in love with nature in order to depict the triumph of the coming spring, which the artist managed to show on his canvas. As always, he resorted to his favorite method of showing a fragment of a landscape: the viewer does not see the top of the birch tree, and in the foreground on the snow lie the shadows of those trees that stand somewhere behind the viewer, thus “entering” the picture space at the will of the artist and from bottom to top looking at all the multitude of intertwining branches and hanging branches, shining either white or gold against the background of the spring sky. Main character the painting - a birch tree with rhythmically arranged branches - seems to be hidden from the viewer by thin birch trees located in clumps of two or three, going into the distance, to where a transparent birch forest permeated with light is visible on the horizon...
“What could be more beautiful than a birch, the only tree in nature whose trunk is dazzlingly white, while all other trees in the world have dark trunks. Fantastic, supernatural tree, fairy tale tree. I passionately fell in love with Russian birch and for a long time I painted it almost alone.” The whiteness of the birch trunk becomes a kind of screen for Grabar, reflecting rainbow reflections. Instead of black specks, he sees contrasts of pure colors.
“February Azure” is one of the examples of the greatest degree of color decomposition among all of Grabar’s paintings. The artist paints in pure color, not mixing paints on the palette, but applying them in short, small strokes to the surface of the canvas. The deep blue, light blue, turquoise and yellowish-blue tones of the sky are conveyed by all the many individual strokes of blue, white, yellow, and sometimes green and red. The same thing happens with the trunks of birch trees, the surface of the snow, where white, red, lilac, yellow tones are adjacent, and all this together merges into a single surface of the snow with its deep blue-lilac tones, into the white and gold of the birch trunk.
“With February Azure” Grabar said a new word in Russian landscape painting.
Azure (ancient Russian from Greek) – 1) light blue color, blue; 2) light blue paint. (Explanatory dictionary.)
Synonyms for color:
Azure = azure = blue.
Coral (color) – bright red.
Sapphire (color) – blue or green, the color of sapphire.
Yellow (color) – golden, golden.
WRITE AN ESSAY ACCORDING TO THE PROPOSED PLAN.
Description essay based on the painting by I.E. Grabar "February Azure"
PLAN
1. The history of the creation of the painting. (Very briefly! – number 1 of the collection.) The meaning of the title. (The canvas dazzles with an azure-blue sky stretching into endless heights. The space is filled with light and air.)
2. The azure sky in Grabar’s painting. (The sky occupies about three-quarters of the canvas in “February Blue.” It’s as if it opened up like a dome over the painting. Such an intense blue sky happens precisely in Russia - and precisely on sunny winter days. How do we understand that the day is sunny? - The trunks of birch trees sparkle, on them reflections of the sun are visible. The palette of the sky is varied: from bright blue to light blue. The azure background creates a feeling of solemnity and richness of sunlight that spreads across the picture.)
3. Birches. Birch tree in the foreground of the picture. (Author: “...a marvelous specimen of birch”... A mighty, huge, old tree that has seen no winter. The color of the trunk, branches, bright red last year’s foliage at the top, in harmony with the clear blue of the vast sky. In the distance are her friends, young birches. The lace of branches is reflected in the large cloudless blue sky. Yellow, pearl, reddish, orange shades are warm tones. Birches are a symbol of our homeland, a symbol of Russian winter. Many songs and poems have been written about them.)
4. Non-standard approach to the perspective of the picture. (The viewer is invited to look at the snow-covered birch grove as if from below. This technique expands the space and allows..., creating)
5. The lower part of the picture is snow: in the sun and in the shade. (The snow is loose, settled in some places, melted. The special beauty of sapphire shadows on lilac snow, endless turquoise tints, brilliant snow cover.)
6. “February Azure” by I.E. Grabar - the poetry of awakening spring. The impression, feelings and mood evoked by the painting. (The artist expressed his feelings in the painting with the help of a symphony of color, creating the mood of an unprecedented holiday... see the collection, end -1,2. Did the poems of poets and the music of composers played during the lesson help us see the beauty of “February Blue”?)
(The lesson includes musical compositions by Antonio Vivaldi “The Seasons. Spring” and Edvard Grieg “Morning”, the “Solveig” suite from the opera “Peer Gynt”.)
Poems that are in tune with the painting and the artist’s mood (texts can be used in an essay):
“It’s also cold and cheese...” Ivan Bunin
It's also cold and cheese
February air, but above the garden
The sky is already looking with a clear gaze,
And God’s world is getting younger.
Transparently pale, like in spring,
The snow of the recent cold is shedding,
And from the sky to the bushes and puddles
There is a blue reflection.
I can’t stop admiring how they shine through
Trees in the bosom of the sky,
And it’s sweet to listen by the balcony,
Like bullfinches ringing in the bushes.
No, it’s not the landscape that attracts me,
It’s not the colors that the greedy gaze will notice,
And what shines in these colors:
Love and joy of being.
Yesenin S.A.
White birch
Below my window
Covered with snow
Exactly silver.
On fluffy branches
Snow border
The brushes have blossomed
White fringe.
And the birch tree stands
In sleepy silence,
And the snowflakes are burning
In golden fire.
And the dawn is lazy
Walking around
Sprinkles branches
New silver.
The honorary title of Honored Artist was established in our country in 1928, and the first artist to receive it was Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar. Indeed, his services to Russian and Soviet art are very significant. Wonderful artist and an outstanding restorer, a tireless researcher and an active organizer of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Monuments, a museum worker - this is not a complete list of the activities in which I. Grabar’s talent was manifested. He himself said: “Just as I could not live without art, so I could not live a day without labor.”
Self-portrait with a hat. 1921
Cardboard, oil. 65 x 51 cm
Private collection
I. Grabar served art as a painter and artist, as an art historian and as an art critic. His path as a painter is very long, and there are few artists who can show their works painted over more than sixty years. A I.E. Grabar on his anniversary exhibition in 1951, he demonstrated both works from the end of the last century, and those on which the last strokes were put before the vernissage.
He could never just contemplate the world around us and always tried to capture it in paint. I. Grabar the artist is characterized mainly by two painting genres - landscape and portrait. He discovered a new Russian landscape, and not every painter is given the happiness of seeing the old in a new way, of showing the unusual in the ordinary.
Roofs under snow. 1889
oil on canvas, 25x33.5
I. Grabar began to try his hand at landscape painting back in the late 1880s, when he painted “Roof with Snow.” This canvas foreshadowed one of the main themes of I. Grabar’s landscape painting - the theme of Russian winter and Russian snows.
This theme especially captured the artist in the first decade of our century, and subsequently reminded of itself more than once. According to I. Grabar himself, he always strived for “objective truth in painting”; He set himself the educational task of “conveying nature to the point of complete illusion, to the point of impossibility of distinguishing between nature and canvas with painting.”
The main early landscapes of I. Grabar were created in 1903-1908. The year 1904 was especially successful for the artist, when he painted such paintings as “Rooks’ Nests,” “March Snow” and “February Blue.” It was these landscapes that primarily attracted the attention of viewers at the exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists in 1904. Critics called I. Grabar’s canvases “almost the best at the exhibition,” because it’s rare to see someone “like his, conveying nature.” But at that time he was a young artist, just beginning his creative path.
Success with the public and critics was especially important because the Union of Russian Artists was at that time the leading exhibition association, which included the most gifted artists in its ranks.
"February Azure"
1904
Oil on canvas. 141 x 83 cm
State Tretyakov Gallery
And I. Grabar wrote his “February Azure” in the winter and spring of 1904, when he was visiting friends in the Moscow region. During one of his usual morning walks, he was struck by the festival of the awakening spring, and subsequently, being already a venerable artist, very vividly told the story of the creation of this canvas.
“I stood near a marvelous specimen of a birch tree, rare in the rhythmic structure of its branches. Looking at it, I dropped the stick and bent down to pick it up. When I looked at the top of the birch from below, from the surface of the snow, I was stunned by the spectacle of fantastic beauty that opened before me: some chimes and echoes of all the colors of the rainbow, united by the blue enamel of the sky. Nature seemed to be celebrating some unprecedented festival of the azure sky, pearl birches, coral branches and sapphire shadows on the lilac snow.” It is not surprising that the artist passionately wanted to convey “at least a tenth of this beauty.”
I. Grabar has repeatedly admitted that of all the trees in central Russia, he loves the birch most, and among the birches, its “weeping” variety. And indeed, in “February Azure”, birch is the only basis of the artistic image. The very appearance of this tree, the ability to see its charm in the general structure of the Russian landscape, reflected the artist’s joyful perception of the nature of the Russian region, which distinguished I. Grabar the landscape painter in all periods of his work.
This time, the artist quickly returned home to get the canvas, and then in one session he sketched a sketch of the future painting from life. The next day, taking another canvas, he began to paint a sketch from the same place, which became everyone’s favorite “February Blue.”
I. Grabar worked on this painting outdoors, in a deep trench that he specially dug in the snow. The artist painted “February Blue” “with an umbrella painted blue, and placed the canvas not only without the usual tilt forward, facing the ground, but turned its face to the blue of the sky, which is why reflexes from the hot snow under the sun did not fall on it, and he remained in the cold shadow, forcing... to triple the power of color to convey the fullness of the impression."
In “February Blue” I. Grabar achieved extreme color saturation; he painted this landscape in pure color, applying brush strokes in a dense layer. It was precisely these tiny strokes that revealed the volumes of tree trunks, the patterns of branches, and the mounds of snow. The low point of view opened up the opportunity for the artist to convey all the gradations of blue - from light green at the bottom to ultramarine at the top.
I. Grabar was called (and he himself did not deny this) the last of the plein air painters of Russia. But, having mastered the best achievements of impressionism, he found his own artistic style in art - unique and original. The nature of Russia acquired a completely new look in his landscapes, sparkled with rainbow colors, and was filled with a feeling of space and light. In this regard, I. Grabar continued and developed the principles that appeared in the works of I. Levitan, V. Serov, K. Korovin and other outstanding Russian landscape painters.
It has been repeated more than once that I. Grabar entered the history of Russian painting as the poet of Russian winter (although he painted both spring and autumn). But the winters of I. Grabar, his birches, snow are conceivable only here, only in Russia. The artist always considered this painting to be the most sincere and most pleasing work of his mature creativity.
"One Hundred Great Paintings" by N.A. Ionin, Veche Publishing House, 2002
Artistic style is the handwriting of a master. The modulations of the shades of I. Grabar’s painting fascinate the viewer. The turquoise sky, the ringing silence of the frosty air and white-trunked birches create a fabulous mood. The snow blanket shimmers with multi-colored sparks under the sun. The winter landscape seems to be strewn precious stones- this effect was created on canvas by Igor Grabar. “February Blue” - the description of the painting must necessarily note the artist’s skill in using a wide range of shades, the master’s admiration for the power of Russian nature.
Artist I. Grabar
Igor Grabar amazingly knew how to convey color scheme. His landscapes are known throughout the world for their unrivaled style and fantastic shades of snow. The artist knew how to find the right angle to convey sparkling frost or deep shadows of a cloudy day.
An experienced restorer, critic, art historian, museum activist - his tireless energy penetrated many areas of life.
The main genres for this artist are portrait and landscape. The theme of the Russian winter fascinated Igor Emmanuilovich so much that he dedicated many of his paintings to it. Grabar sought to convey nature in such a way that it would be impossible to distinguish between a painting and a nature.
“March Snow”, “Roof with Snow”, “ Winter evening“- the shades of his canvases are so natural and realistic that the viewer is immersed in the magical world of the artist’s paintings.
In 1904, at a dacha near Moscow, Grabar created an amazing masterpiece. “February Blue” - the description of the painting must necessarily tell you that the painting depicts this variety. Igor Emmanuilovich loved this variety most of all. During the walk, he was amazed by the incredible beauty of the sky, the harmonious lines of the branches and the entire composition of the birch grove.
Working on a painting
Grabar worked on the painting “February Blue” in the fresh air. He explained this by saying that the colors look different from the window. Only in the open air is it possible to capture the entire palette of natural shades.
The artist dug a trench in the snow. Nearby he placed an umbrella, repainted blue. Such tricks created a variety of shades that the artist transferred to the canvas. The master turned the painting itself with its front side towards the sky.
Color saturation, a dense layer of brushstrokes, voluminous tree trunks, patterns of branches, pure enamel of the sky - this is the description of the picture that Grabar created. “February Blue” conveys the entire range of shades of blue. Sapphire shadows, ultramarine sky, lilac tints on the snow. A reproduction is not always able to convey the unimaginable beauty of a painting. The original can be seen in the State Tretyakov
Grabar, “February Azure”: description of the painting
The winter landscape is frozen in anticipation of the coming spring. Glimpses of thawed patches, blue-lilac shadows of birches - the viewer is created in this birch grove. The azure, spring-like bright sky seems to blind the eyes. The sun is clearly not present in the picture, but its light envelops the tops of the birches. Their patterned branches circle in a whimsical dance, waiting for the first warmth.
As if enchanted, the birch trees lined up. Lacy frost fantastically sets off the branches and the azure sky. The frosty transparency of the air creates a joyful feeling. All the charm and elegance was reflected by Igor Grabar. “February Blue” - the description of the painting tells about the stunning palette of colors and their harmony.
Essay for 5th grade
The artist’s style is so unusual that his paintings are filled with a vibration of freshness and transparency. The sparkling snow and the endless blue of the sky encourage you to write your own feeling and vision of the picture.
It is best to write an essay following a small plan. Then the structure of the text and the description of the painting will be subordinated to the general scheme (Grabar, “February Azure”). 5th grade for writing an essay can follow this approximate plan:
- brief information about the author of the picture;
- genre of the painting, time of year;
- objects depicted in the picture (describe what is in the foreground and what is in the background);
- methods of depiction and color palette used by the artist;
- what is the title of the painting related to?
- the general mood of the landscape.