Thunderstorm. 1856 Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897)

Description of Alexei Savrasov’s painting Thunderstorm

The renowned artist Alexei Savrasov always liked to depict pictures of nature during thunderstorms. This interest in romantic landscapes was instilled in him by his painting teacher Rabus. Savrasov conveyed the effects of lightning, the color scheme when depicting thunderstorms very skillfully.

The artist painted a picture called "Thunderstorm" in 1856. This work of painting became the brightest example of art of the period of realism. The genre of Savrasov’s painting is a landscape, in the painting of which the artist used the technique of fine art - oil.

A thunderstorm is approaching.

On the left you can see a big bifurcated tree moving under the influence of the gusty wind. There is a strong thunderstorm scent in the airspace. On the left, the forest trees are depicted, falling as they do in the gust of wind.

The colorism of the canvas is a saturation of dark color. Everything looks so gray that you can’t even see the storm clouds. Such a painting is even unusual, despite such a seemingly simple title. In it, the painter showed himself as a fine artist and a true master of the brush, depicting something unusual. The "Thunderstorm" canvas, painted in gloomy tones, reminds viewers that something very severe and terrible is happening.

The artist filigree conveyed the ruffled trees, the bombasticness of the blurred clouds that fill most of the canvas. As we can see, Savrasov wanted to show the viewer the image of nature during a thunderstorm. He succeeded in doing so, because the impression is that the thunderstorm has taken over some immense expanses.

On the one hand, such threatening elements frighten people, but the hope that everything will soon disappear and the darkness will disappear. The viewer can’t help but like this picture, although it is rather gloomy, because the artist very skillfully conveyed how strong the elements are.