hut on a meadow. 1880 Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900)

Description of Isaac Levitan’s painting "A Hut in the Meadow

Levitan has been called the "painter of mood" and the "singer of Russian nature," and it is enough to look at his paintings to feel with all your heart why this is so. All his landscapes are permeated by his mood - you can find cheerful and sad, joyful and wistful, permeated with fear and expectation, and, on the contrary, radiating hope and light.

To the first glance at them, it seems that it is impossible to so accurately convey the pain and happiness of the human soul through the image of nature - always Russian nature - but once you look, it is impossible to forget.

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A hut in the meadow" is no exception. It’s a landscape-mood, which responds with a presentiment of good. There is seemingly nothing special in it - a stumpy hut between two tall trees, a scattering of fluffy unflowered dandelions in a green meadow, a tiny pond overgrown with tall grass and only a tiny edge reflecting the sky...

But all this is painted with such warm, so precise colors that it lifts your spirits and seems that everything will turn out for the best. The painting’s summer afternoon - a tiny cloud floating across the sky, painted very precisely and gently, in Levitan’s usual reverent manner - makes one believe that in reality summer will come, too, in which everything will be fine.

In addition, like any good painting, the landscape awakens your imagination - it is easy to imagine a young girl, almost a girl, in a simple homespun dress, comes out of the hut and goes to pick dandelions, blowing their soft white feather, making wishes and laughing. Or two children will run out, start running among the flowers, make a whole dandelion storm, and then fall asleep in the soft grass.

"The hut in the meadow" encourages such thoughts and fantasies, provokes them. And this is nice, because without the picture one does not always have the time and desire to think about laughing children himself