Debry Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898)
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin – Debry
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Painter: Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin
Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Государственная Третьяковская галерея).
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Putting aside unnecessary prejudice and distracting ourselves from the rather harsh title, The Derby, it is worth noting that this is one of Shishkin’s most delicate and subtle works. The picture is imbued with a certain mystery and unrecognizability, which is due to the secrecy of the forest nature and all its inhabitants. The wilderness in which the artist was able to notice and hear the growth of conifers and spilled soft music of forest existence, which carries in itself something hidden, invisible and poetic.
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Description of Ivan Shishkin’s painting "Debri".
Putting aside unnecessary prejudice and distracting ourselves from the rather harsh title, The Derby, it is worth noting that this is one of Shishkin’s most delicate and subtle works. The picture is imbued with a certain mystery and unrecognizability, which is due to the secrecy of the forest nature and all its inhabitants.
The wilderness in which the artist was able to notice and hear the growth of conifers and spilled soft music of forest existence, which carries in itself something hidden, invisible and poetic. The viewer can also see the large wild stones, which are overgrown with moss.
The artist also accentuates the open glade, where one can also see several small spruces, which gently and roughly pressed one against the other. There is a deep gloom all around, where because of the large number of dark trunks of the mighty trees, there is no possibility of a single ray of sunlight to break through. Here is the realm of silence, and the dense and rich smell of pine prevails.
Even a bird that might fly in here by chance is much rarer than in any other place. Due to the fact that here very rarely penetrates not only the sunlight, but even animals. Because of this, the dry branches, as if in a last hope, reach up to the light, because the darkness of this thicket tries with all its might to stifle their growth.
The master thus shows the viewer, natural selection and the harsh struggle for survival, in which the strong defeats the weak. The master’s very mood, along with his difficult fate, may have contributed to this. The painting is literally imbued with the special, magical life of the entire forest.
The painting requires a slow and unhurried examination of all the details, to fully penetrate into the picture and understand the emotional presentation of the artist. The unimaginable lace of branches, which are intertwined with each other represent the web of life events, which are described in the picture by a convinced realist.
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The picture has something of this: wood, tree, conifer, landscape, nature, evergreen, leaf, moss, environment, daylight, park, rainforest, pine, mist, cypress, outdoors, redwood, barbaric, sequoia.
Perhaps it’s a painting of a forest scene with a bear in the foreground and rocks.