Borisov-Musatov Victor Spring Sun Viktor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905)

Description of Victor Borisov Musatov’s painting Spring

Victor Epildiforovich Borisov-Musatov was a Russian painter, artist, and master of depicting the symbolism of noble nests. The creator’s legacy does not include many landscapes, but nature plays a major role in his spectacular works of art. Like the great painters of the eighteenth century, the artist depicted very often park and garden nature, in which there was to be a man.

The first work of art, in which the painter Borisov-Musatov synthesized impressions of reality, saw in a particular common, was "Spring". It marked a new period of the author’s work, which is associated with his most famous works. The painter very professionally applied the paint, with small strokes, and then changed their direction. It is the work of art with the name "Spring" that gives the viewer a unique opportunity to see the change in the work of impressionism to a decorative style.

The texture of the beautiful surface, the strokes on the canvas are reminiscent of Impressionism, but in general the spectacle, with the balance and certainty of color, good composition, refinement of the landscape speaks of the decorative style. The peculiarity of the painting is considered to be the absence of narrative entirely. In the image the artist was able to convey the mood of the composition to the viewer with the help of nature. Sad silence, only the girl treads the grass sad. She looks very mysterious, because we can not see her face.

In this unique canvas, the spirituality and beauty of the girl, the carpet of grass with the beautiful garden background, and the warmth of the blooming and luxurious cherry trees make up a special world that is very light and beautiful to the viewer. The light and clean colors and the rhythmic nature of the subject create a very quiet and unusual mood for the viewer, but one still feels sad and immersed in thoughts of festivity. In this picture the landscape is not only used as a background, it is the main element of the composition, the creator’s dream of the beauty of life.