deadfall 1886-1887 Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898)

Description of Ivan Shishkin’s painting "Burelom".

Painted in oil on canvas in 1888.

The style in painting is realism, written in the genre of sketch and study.

Shishkin was a great Russian artist who left us his legacy. This artist displayed on his canvases the richness and beauty of Russian nature. Many of his works were created in St. Petersburg forests and on the Valaam. He is rightly considered the best Russian painter. Probably no one in our country, who did not know one of the most famous paintings of Ivan Shishkin, "Bears in a pine forest. Know it even children. But the rest of the paintings are very famous.

Ivan Shishkin wrote a huge number of paintings devoted to the nature of Russia.

The canvas "Burelom" - this is one of the paintings of this cycle, which the author wrote in different years of his life. Its title indicates to us the power of such elements as a storm. And the canvas gives the accessibility of this landscape to the eyes of the viewer. On the theme of this cycle of paintings there are poems created by different authors.

The canvas depicts the Vologda forest, after the storm. The landscape is very gloomy. In the struggle with the elements, the centuries-old trees still lost. The painting is filled with a combination of green, gray, black shades. But it is bright enough, which proves the skill of the author. Broken trees are already covered with bog mosses, as if showing us that very soon these giants with thick trunks will not be visible at all. Shishkin was a master of the play of light and shadow. He shows the power of the elements, the density and impassability of the forest thickets. These landscapes can be found in every corner of our great country.

The painting is in storage at the Kiev State Museum of Russian Art.