scan 124 Alphonse Maria Mucha

Description of the painting "Autumn" by Alphonse Mucha

Mucha was one of the most famous modernists--that is, one who believed that art should be indivisible and proportionate.

By making extensive use of its applied fields - embroidery, beadwork, fabric painting - the modernists sought to create the fullest and most vivid image of the reality they perceived. Modern - the style, glorifying life. Bright, saturated with details, causing either sincere admiration or confusion where to look.

"Autumn" is one of the paintings of the cycle "The Seasons". It depicts the golden ruler herself, who in Mucha’s performance seems more like a redhead. She has fiery hair, honey-colored skin, and bright red lips. She is all fiery, blazing with the fiery fire of summer celebration.

The airy blue dress she wears-a halo of rain and mist that accompanies her-also glistens in gold, with golden straps around her shoulders. On her chest are two golden jeweled discs with scarlet rubies hiding her breasts. Autumn all seems to be burning, but not fierce, like wild flames, but warm, like a home. All around her are her trappings. Dried red branches, withering five-fingered leaves of grapes - scarlet, green, yellow.

The Autumn holds a saucer in one hand and picks the poured berries from the clusters of grapes with the other. The Autumn is a kind, generous and abundant hostess. It is as if all the sun of summer was captured in it, since during three long hot months the nature absorbed it with every petal and every leaf, and in autumn it returns the collected fruits. Fly’s autumn is not foggy, wicked and slushy. It is golden and joyful, when you look at it you think about harvest festivals, how they gather ears full of gold, how they pluck heavy apples from the branches, how children make bouquets from the fallen leaves.

All the best was embodied in it - the evenings by the ginger fireplace in the warmth, and wrinkled baked apples, and the smell of smoke from the burning leaves. And the memory of the warmth that was gone.