autumn floods. Arhip Kuindzhi (Kuindschi) (1842-1910)
Arhip Kuindzhi – autumn floods.
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Painter: Arhip Kuindzhi (Kuindschi)
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The painting was painted in 1872. We see a steppe that has become completely muddy from the fall rains. The sky is completely gray and dreary. A bandage is trying to make its way along the road, but it keeps getting bogged down in the mud. On the left are a child and a woman walking. It is not known where the artist painted this magnificent landscape. This artist’s work is as realistic as possible.
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Description of Arkhip Kuindzhi’s painting "Autumn Swell".
The painting was painted in 1872.
We see a steppe that has become completely muddy from the fall rains. The sky is completely gray and dreary. A bandage is trying to make its way along the road, but it keeps getting bogged down in the mud. On the left are a child and a woman walking. It is not known where the artist painted this magnificent landscape.
This artist’s work is as realistic as possible. There is no other work of this time, so fully conveys the hopelessness of Russian life. The landscape has a touch of genre. It introduces a certain sentimental tinge which is not so typical of Russian landscapes.
The motif of the road was characteristic of many paintings of that era. It is as endless as the patience of the people. As for the color scheme, it is absolutely unprecedented for a landscape of a realistic character. Its persuasiveness is as sensual as possible. We feel the particular dankness of the air, which seems to be saturated with moisture. The characteristic smacking of the mud on which the child and the woman are walking seems to be audible.
The autumn landscape seems to be permeated by a gray mist. It tells of poor people, whose lives are also dull and absolutely joyless.
Kuindzhi used in his painting all kinds of shades of gray and brown. There is not a single bright spot, and this is no coincidence. The entire image merges into a single grayness, which creates the same joyless mood in the viewer. The entire existence of poor people is hopeless. Viewers feel this fully just by looking at this picture. Every detail of autumnal nature is maximally tangible and incredibly meaningful. Everything here is meaningful and non-random.
The small gap we see only on the horizon. It lights up the picture from within. It’s most likely the autumn sun trying, but unsuccessfully, to break through the clouds. This light doesn’t make us feel any better. It doesn’t help brighten this dreary landscape, which remains just as sad.
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The picture has something of this: landscape, water, fog, dawn, daylight, winter, weather, outdoors, storm, beach, sunset, sky, mist, ocean, snow, light, action, sea.
Perhaps it’s a painting of a horse drawn carriage traveling through a foggy field with two people.