After the Storm 1. Arhip Kuindzhi (Kuindschi) (1842-1910)

Description of Arkhip Kuindzhi’s painting "After the Thunderstorm".

The painting "After the Thunderstorm" was painted by Arkhip Kuindzhi in 1879. The canvas is now in the Sumy Regional State Museum, not far from the artist’s small homeland.

Looking at the wonderful impressionist landscape, and want to breathe in fresh air after thunderstorms. The landscape is full of freshness. The clouds that were shed in the thunderstorm are in retreat, revealing a clear blue sky. You can still see the haze in the foreground, but the dew-covered grass is already "burning" with bright green.

The fields and the hill in the far distance are already touched by the first post-thunderstorm ray. The canvas is painted with bright colors and there is a lot of free space which opens up in front of the viewer, taking him to the wide yellow-green meadow.

Arkhip Kuindzhi entered the history of painting as an unsurpassed master of conveying light and air on canvas. He did not use classical impressionist techniques, having developed his own unique style. His landscapes allow you to feel the atmosphere of the changing weather.

And the artist was especially inspired by views of nature after rain, thunderstorms ("After the rain," "Rainbow" and others). Interestingly, during the 1879 Kuindzhi wrote two paintings with the same title "After the thunderstorm" quite different in mood and color.

Н. K. Roerich recalled: "Once talked with Arkhip about aviation. He said: "It is good, of course, to fly, but first we should learn to walk on the ground." And he knew how to walk the ground".

Arkhip Kuindzhi was very fond of observing, had a unique talent to notice even the smallest changes in nature. It was such a change of weather he captured on the canvas "After a thunderstorm".