Famous Soviet artist Yuri Mikhailovich Neprintsev went through the entire Great Patriotic War. The first days of the most terrible event in the life of the country, he participated in the camouflage of one of the factories in Leningrad. Afterwards he was the commander of an infantry platoon, which guarded one of the artillery divisions. But he failed to take part in at least one battle; he never even fired a weapon. This coincidence of circumstances allowed him to save his life and his talent. Fate gave him the opportunity not only to meet real heroes, but also to preserve their images, so that later, in peacetime, tell everyone about their exploits.
When Neprintsev read Tvardovsky’s poem “Vasily Terkin,” he was delighted with the image of the main character. Terkin reminded him of ordinary soldiers, who performed great and small feats every day and did not see anything special about it. This is business as usual for them. Soon after reading it, the artist had the idea of creating a canvas that would depict Vasily Terkin among his colleagues.
Such a painting eventually became a work entitled “Rest after the Battle,” written in 1951. Work on the canvas lasted from 1949 to 1951 and eventually made the author extremely popular. It was shown on the main page art exhibition Soviet Union, taking place in the capital. She received high praise from viewers and critics. A year after its creation, Neprintsev received the Stalin Prize for this painting. Hundreds of reproductions were made from the canvas, which were distributed throughout the vast country. This painting became one of the most famous artistic paintings of the Soviet Union.
The painting depicts a soldier resting in the forest. The fighters shown in the foreground are having a lively conversation, everyone is smiling, some are laughing. It is obvious that quite recently they defeated their enemy and now with a sense of accomplishment and, being in good location spirit, rest.
All soldiers are dressed in warm sheepskin coats. The Russian winter is not terrible in these. Everyone has machine guns behind their backs. Despite the fact that now everyone is resting, they are actually on alert and ready to stand up for themselves and their comrade at any moment. In war you cannot relax for a minute. Tanks are visible in the forest nearby.
In the center of the crowd is shown the joker of the company, by which the artist meant Vasily Terkin. He's talking animatedly and gesticulating. And the soldiers around are ready to laugh. He holds a red pouch in his hand. This is probably a gift from my beloved. Girls and wives sent such things to their soldiers during the war, proving their devotion and love, thereby saying that they were waiting for their return.
The main color used in the work is white. It creates a positive attitude, a feeling of joy and fun, despite the fact that the picture describes a terrible wartime. This picture was able to convey important point, a kind of ray of light in the dark and cruel world of war, allowing soldiers again and again, after a short break, to believe in themselves and go forward to defend the Motherland. This picture reminds all viewers that Victory was achieved with the strength, health, and lives of ordinary people, who were characterized by joy and suffering, heroism and fear. Therefore, the price of that Victory is incomparable.
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Van Gogh was born in Holland into the family of a church minister. His father's brothers were engaged in the painting trade, and 16-year-old Van Gogh also got a job as a salesman in a Parisian art company, but at the age of 23 he decided to become a Bible preacher, like his father. In a mining village in southern Belgium he teaches the Law of God. Observing the complete indifference of the church authorities, after 4 years he breaks with the official religion forever.
At the age of 27, Vincent Van Gogh finally realized his calling as an artist, wanting to serve the people through art.
Fate gave him 10 years for fruitful creativity.
In 1880, Vincent entered the Academy of Arts in Brussels. However, due to his irreconcilable nature, he drops out of school and continues his art education as a self-taught person. Van Gogh leaves for Paris, believing that only there it makes sense to live and create.
In Paris, Van Gogh quickly progressed as an artist, but his uncompromising attitude often involved him in all sorts of feuds. Acquaintance with Paul Gauguin also ends in a quarrel, after which Van Gogh cut off his left earlobe. Gog's eccentricity frightens the townspeople to such an extent that in March 1889 the townspeople write a petition to free the city from the “red-haired madman.” Perhaps the progressive nervous illness was a consequence of alcohol abuse. A mental disorder led him voluntarily to a specialized hospital, but internal conflict constantly accompanied him until the end of his life. On July 27, 1990, Van Gogh leaves home and goes to the fields to work plein air. Van Gogh shot himself in the heart area with a revolver, bought to scare away flocks of birds while working in the open air, but the bullet passed lower. Thanks to this, he independently gets to the hotel room, but dies two days later.
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Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) – famous painter from Holland. Let's find out more about his life and look at his most famous paintings.
Starry night
The artist’s life journey began in the small town of Groot-Zundert in the family of the clergyman Theodor and Carnelia Van Gogh. As a sixteen-year-old young man, Vincent began his professional career by selling paintings in England.Irises
Then, after seven years, he becomes a preacher of the Bible in Belgium, and only at the age of 27, after all his wanderings, he comes to art. And this was facilitated by a trip on a preaching mission to the impoverished working-class village of Borinage. Vincent was struck by the hopelessness of the lives of local miners to such a depth that he forever renounced the preaching of faith and saw his calling in serving the people through art, and a simple worker, a peasant, subsequently became the main figure in his paintings.
Night cafe terrace
Vincent Van Gogh never received a special art education, except for a short apprenticeship with the artist Mauve. He developed himself through experiments with images and their expression. So main topic his creations of the Dutch period - nature and its tireless servant - a simple peasant, artisan, fisherman. All his creations are imbued with sympathy for the difficult life of these people, a mournful understanding of their everyday hardships. The paintings of this period are executed in dark, rather gloomy colors. These are such paintings as “Potato Eaters”, “Peasant Woman”.
Potato eaters
In France, where Van Gogh moved in 1886, the artist gradually moved away from this depressed state, which is manifested in the appearance of new light colors in his canvases (“Bridge over the Seine”, “Portrait of Father Tanguy”).
Portrait of Father Tanguy
Bridge over the Seine
In 1888, the painter moved to the city of Arles. This is where creativity flourishes. His canvases are either full of optimism and filled with bright colors (“Harvest. La Croe Valley”, “Fishing Boats in Sainte-Marie”), or ominous and expressing depression (“Night Cafe”). At this time, the artist’s mental illness begins to manifest itself. He is no longer able to control his emotions, which suddenly change from one to another. During a disagreement with his friend, he cuts off part of his earlobe, after which he ends up in a hospital, where he remains until 1889.
Harvest. La Croe Valley
Fishing boats in Sainte-Marie
The last moments of the artist’s life took place in the small French village of Auvers, where his brother lived with his family. Such works as “Landscape in Auvers after the rain” and “Crows over a wheat field” were created there. But mental illness did not recede, and in 1890 the artist committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a pistol.
Landscape in Auvers after rain
Crows over a wheat field
Van Gogh's biography is filled with rumors and far-fetched facts. Below are the most interesting aspects of the artist's life that take place.
Noon: rest from work
Few people know that after being shot from a pistol, Van Gogh lived for another two days, and his brother outlived Vincent by only six months and was buried next to him.
Red vineyards in Arles
The artist created one of his most famous paintings in a psychiatric hospital (“Starry Night”).
Church in Auvers
During his lifetime, Vincent managed to realize only his work “Red Vineyards in Arles”.
Bedroom in Arles
During his life, the artist wrote just under a thousand letters addressed to his brother, with whom he was very friendly.
Self-portrait
Van Gogh was an amazing person: the artist’s biography confirms this.
Vase with sunflowers
Pair of leather clogs
I learned that the basis of Yu.M. Neprintsev’s painting “Rest after the battle” is Tvardovsky’s poem “Vasily Terkin”.
It was her reading that caused the artist to paint such a wonderful picture on military theme.
In his work, Neprintsev showed soldiers who were positioned on the edge of a winter, snow-covered forest.
Each of them is busy with their own business, but at the same time, they all stick together.
Some of them are having lunch, some are smoking, some are listening to the stories of their fellow soldiers.
Apparently, the conversation is not about sad topics, because the faces of the characters in the picture are joyful, they laugh with pleasure.
They look quite carefree.
I think that the artist painted them this way on purpose, because it is impossible to be in tension all the time.
If possible, people tried to be distracted from everyday life at the front, at least for a few hours, and again rushed into battle, achieving new military heights.
It’s hard to believe that these people looked death in the eye more than once, performed feats, defended each other and our Motherland.
Now they are vigorous, cheerful and gaining new strength to continue their military exploits.
The artist could not ignore the theme of the beauty of Russian nature.
The soldiers are shown in a clearing between magnificent pine trees.
The characters in the film defend not only the freedom of their loved ones, the right to life, but also the opportunity to admire the local unique nature.
I would like to note the shade white, which the artist used.
The snow is shown to be perfectly snow-white; not every picture can have such a tone, regardless of what topic the author paints on.
I think this was not done by chance, but in order to emphasize successful outcome battles and the entire war in general.
I think that the picture turned out to be very life-affirming and bright, and we see dark colors only when depicting the soldiers’ greatcoats.
The canvas “Rest after the battle” was based on the poem “Vasily Terkin”. Actually, after the artist read this poem, he came to the conclusion that he would paint a wonderful canvas on a military theme.
Behind the heroes of this picture, a fluffy forest is visible, dressed in a snowy outfit. Maybe it was winter last year war before the Great Victory. On this canvas, the artist shows the military stationed on a snow-covered winter forest in the background winter forest. The soldiers all stick together, but each of them goes about his own business - eating, smoking, listening to one of them talk interesting stories their comrades.
Looking at the faces of the characters, you understand that the conversation is about something fun, as they are joyful and laughing. They look calm and relaxed, because you can’t always be tense. These people tried not to think about the war for at least a couple of hours, and after this time, they went into battle again and achieved new victories. Looking at these people, it’s hard to believe that they have been face to face with death many times. They defended not only themselves, but also their homeland. But it was somewhere there, and now they are completely different people. They're in at the moment cheerful, full of strength and positive emotions.
Apparently the artist painted the main characters smiling and carefree, because he wanted to depict the fact that no matter how hard and cruel it was in battle, they have ordinary human feelings that the enemy cannot understand.
This canvas serves as a reminder of that cruel and terrible, which took more than one hundred human lives, war. However, looking at this canvas there is no feeling of pity, but contrary to this, there is pride in such warriors as those people who are painted on the canvas. I would like to believe that all the heroes depicted in the picture remained alive.
To make the canvas lush, the artist uses light, white paints, which create a feeling of successful completion of the battle. This canvas conveys optimism and love of life. Despite the fact that there are dark colors on the canvas, confidence in the transparent future wins.
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