Summer Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897)

Description of Alexei Savrasov’s painting "Summer".

Savrasov was an acclaimed Russian landscape painter. All of his works breathe real, clean, fresh air. It is this sense of lightness and transparency that one gets when looking at his painting "Summer."

It is believed that the most favorite time for any artist is autumn, when the leaves turn yellow and the sun is not so warm. But Savrasov chooses summer and puts his whole young soul into painting the landscape. Nature is very airy. Most of the work takes the image of the summer sky. Here you can not see the heat and the scorching sun. The colors are chosen very soft, muted, pastel. He can’t see the sun in the soft blue sky, it’s already risen but all he can see are the curly white clouds. There is not a single bird to disturb this celestial purity.

The horizon line is drawn very low. There, in the distance, you can see a small pond. It seems to reflect the soul of the sky, so bright and light that the pond literally dissolves in the morning haze. You can practically not see the far shore, there is only a hint of its existence.

Immediately after the pond a small forest belt begins. Green trees tower over the pond, covering part of the body of water from us. Just beyond the lush greenery begins a wide field of golden wheat. The image of wheat spikes is always like a declaration of love for the motherland. The painter draws every blade of grass, every ear that will feed people in the future. This golden field is a hymn in honor of the fertility of the soil of his native land.

A small path runs through the field. A horse and cart are unlikely to be able to pass through it - it’s too narrow. But local boys and girls can walk along it to the pond for refreshment on a hot, summer day. But there is not a single person in the picture - all the attention is devoted to nature.