Description of the painting February blue 4. Essay about Grabar’s painting “February blue” according to plan

The history of the creation of I. Grabar’s painting “February Azure”.

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar was born on March 13, 1871. He loved to draw from an early age; drawing supplies were always a traditional and desired Christmas gift for him. One day, the future artist and his father came to visit the drawing teacher of the Yegoryevsk gymnasium, I.M. Shevchenko, and found him at work. Everything seemed beautiful to the boy: the painting and the easel, the brightly burning paints on the palette, and the shiny silver tubes of real oil paints. “I thought I couldn’t stand the happiness that filled my chest, especially when I felt the sweet, wonderful smell of fresh paint...”

I.E. Grabar graduated from the Yegoryevsk Progymnasium, then St. Petersburg University (Faculty of Law), he was interested in many things: foreign languages, music, literature, but drawing always remained in first place. In 1894, after graduating from university, Grabar entered the Academy of Arts to study.

Ten years later, the painting “February Blue” appeared - one of the best works of I.E. Grabar. Even in a small reproduction, this picture is bright, colorful, and creates the impression of a holiday. Now imagine the landscape in its true dimensions: height – 141 cm, width – 83 cm. The feeling of joy contained in the canvas is simply stunning, and the painting is reminiscent of fireworks! This landscape was especially dear to the artist himself. In his declining years, I. Grabar spoke with pleasure about how this landscape was created. The artist saw the February blue in the Moscow region. In the winter of 1904, he stayed with the artist N. Meshcherin on the Dugino estate. One sunny February morning, I. Grabar went out for a walk as usual and was struck by the unusual state of nature “It seemed that she was celebrating some unprecedented holiday - a holiday of azure skies, pearl birches, coral branches and sapphire shadows on lilac snow,” the artist recalled . Grabar admired the birches; he always said that of all the trees in central Russia, he loved birches most of all. That morning, one of the birches attracted his attention, striking him with the rare rhythmic structure of its branches. Looking at the birch tree, the artist dropped the stick and bent down to pick it up. “When I looked at the top of the birch from below, from the surface of the snow, I was stunned by the fantastic spectacle of fantastic beauty that opened before me; some chimes and echoes of all the colors of the rainbow, united by the blue enamel of the sky. If even a tenth of this beauty were conveyed, then even that would be incomparable.”

He immediately ran into the house, took a canvas and in one session sketched a sketch of the future painting from life. The next days were just as wonderful, sunny, and the artist, taking another canvas, painted a sketch from the same place for three days. After this, I. Grabar dug a trench in the snow, over a meter deep, in which he placed himself with a large easel and canvas. In order to get the impression of a low horizon and a distant forest and the heavenly zenith, with all the tints of blue colors from soft turquoise at the bottom to ultramarine at the top. He prepared the canvas in advance in the studio, covering it over the chalky, oil-absorbing surface with a thick layer of dense lead white of various tones.

“February was amazing. It froze at night and the snow did not let up. The sun shone every day and I was lucky enough to paint for several days in a row without a break or change in weather for more than two weeks, until I finished the painting entirely on location. I painted with an umbrella painted blue and placed the canvas not only without the usual tilt forward, facing the ground, but with its front side facing the blue of the sky, which is why reflexes from the hot snow under the sun did not fall on it, and it remained in the cold shadow , forcing me to triple the strength of color to convey the fullness of the impression.

I felt that I had succeeded in creating the most significant work of all that I had written so far. Most of our own, not borrowed..."

We do not see the top of the main birch tree and those birches whose shadows lie on the snow and the space around them seems endless. But the artist left part of this fascinating infinity on the canvas. The outlines of birch tree trunks are born from strokes laid energetically, precisely creating both space and shape. The interweaving of their branches. Each stroke is applied with an upward movement of the brush, which creates the impression. That the trees rush upward, towards the sky, towards the sun. Grabar writes in pure color, without mixing colors on the palette. White, blue, yellow, lilac, green colors amazingly merge and turn into the dense surface of snow and bluish-lilac shadows, the shining smoothness of trunks or the roughness of the bark of birches, into dazzlingly shining sunlight and the play and chime of the sunny sky.

“February Blue,” which was born in a snow trench, was acquired by the board of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1905 and is stored in one of the halls of the famous museum. I. Grabar called his painting “The Tale of Frost and the Rising Sun.” To this day, this work preserves the artist’s love for nature, admiration for its beauty, his cheerfulness, creative passion and skill.

Theme description: The joy of the approaching spring in Grabar's painting "February Azure".

One day in February, the artist was relaxing at his friends’ dacha. It was almost the end of February and the weather often reminded us that spring was about to come. The artist loved to walk around the neighborhood. Birch groves grew around, and birch was always his favorite tree. He loved to depict birch trees in his landscapes and often walked in birch groves, gaining inspiration. The sun was shining, the sky was blue. The snow glistened in the sunlight. The birches looked especially beautiful against the background of white snow. The artist walked, trying to find some interesting view for his new paintings. Suddenly he dropped the stick and bent down to pick it up. Bending down and turning his head, he suddenly saw something that shocked him: the birch tree shimmered with mother-of-pearl before his eyes, the sky sparkled with shades of blue and turquoise. What seemed ordinary a minute ago began to sparkle with extraordinary colors when he looked at it from a different angle, from below. The painter immediately ran home and made a sketch. The next day he returned to the same place to paint a landscape from life. He wanted to convey in the picture exactly this look at the birch tree, when you look at it from below and it becomes pearlescent from the sun, and the sky seems even bluer. He dug a hole, placed an easel there in a special way so that the sun would not distort the paint on the canvas, and painted this landscape with inspiration. This story happened in 1904. The artist's name was Igor Grabar. And he called the painting “February Blue”. This landscape immediately became one of the most beloved paintings in Russian painting. But, if you think about it, there is nothing special in this picture: snow, birch trees all over the canvas, the sky. But the whole mood, the whole beauty of the picture is in how admiringly the artist conveyed the sunlight, with what pure bright colors he painted the sky, how he painted the birch branches and its bark. Grabar conveyed the whiteness of the snow to blue, the blue of the sky to deep blue, and added golden to the birches. You look at this picture and your soul rejoices. In the Tretyakov Gallery, where it is kept, many people always stop near this painting - everyone wants to experience the feeling of joy, the approaching spring, that the painting gives.

Let's look at a reproduction of I.E. Grabar's painting "February Azure".

Questions for children.

How does the artist relate to nature? Does the artist admire nature (the large birch tree in the foreground, the sky, the sun)?

What is the mood in Igor Emmanuilovich’s painting? Happy, sad?

What colors did the artist use when painting the sky? Snow?

(Cool: blue, indigo, violet and all its shades).

Ped. generalizes. A birch tree in the foreground with spreading branches and a white golden trunk. Her friends are showing off in the distance. The color of the sky is deep blue, with a greenish-yellow tone, the sun is yellow-lemon in color. And the snow reflects the sun and sky.

Conversation. (4min.)

Why is the picture so named?

(The painting is so named because the artist depicted a sunny February day. The word “azure” means light blue, the color of the sky. The entire canvas is permeated with blue, as if birches are floating in the frosty air.)

What color is the sky above and on the horizon?

(The color of the sky is not the same: at the top it is dark blue, towards the horizon it becomes soft blue.)

What color is snow in the sun and in the shade?

(Snow in the sun is crystal clear, bluish; in the shade of birches it is purple.)

What is the birch tree, the color of its trunk, branches and the color of last year’s foliage at the top of the birch?

(The white trunk of the birch is slightly curved, it turns brown towards the bottom. The birch has spread its branches widely, which still retain last year’s foliage. They have darkened from the cold, but do not give up, have not resigned themselves to winter, as if they know that spring will soon come and the birch will be covered with green again sticky notes.)

What's on the horizon?

(A forest is drawn on the horizon as a solid brown stripe. All nature is frozen in the transparent frosty air.)

What mood does the painting create?

(The picture is bright, light, joyful, therefore, looking at it, you experience a joyful mood. This mood is facilitated by the color of the picture.)

I.E. Grabar is a landscape artist. His painting “February Blue” is one of the most famous. Once, during a walk, the painter recalled, he saw that something extraordinary was happening in nature, as if a holiday had come for the azure sky and pearl birches with coral branches, sapphire shadows on lilac snow.

The painting depicts a sunny February day. The entire canvas is permeated with blue color, as if birch trees are soaring in the frosty air. The color of the sky is not the same. At the top it is dark blue, and towards the horizon it becomes soft blue. Snow in the sun is bluish, and in the shade of birches it is purple. The white birch trunk in the foreground of the picture is slightly curved, turning brown towards the bottom. The birch has spread its branches wide, on which last year's foliage is still preserved. The leaves have darkened from the cold, but do not give up, have not resigned themselves to winter, as if they know that spring will soon come and the birch will again be covered with green sticky leaves. A forest is drawn as a solid stripe on the horizon.

The picture is bright, light, joyful. Looking at her, you feel elated. This is facilitated by the color of the picture. It seems that you are transported to a fairy-tale forest where miracles happen.

The purpose of the lesson: consolidate the spelling of case endings of adjectives, find out how much adjectives are used in students’ speech.

Lesson objectives:

1. Educational:

• show in the dictation text how the use of this category of words makes speech more vivid, expressive, and colorful.

2. Developmental:

• develop spelling of case endings of adjectives;
• the ability to accurately use words in oral speech, to correlate the artistic and visual means of a painting and a poetic work;
• work with antonyms and synonyms.

3. Educational:

• foster creative activity;
• aesthetic perception of the surrounding reality and works of art.

Lesson equipment:

• reproductions of paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery and paintings by I. E. Grabar “February Azure”;
• posters with vocabulary work materials;
• explanatory dictionary, image of the Tretyakov Gallery.

1. Organizational moment.

2. Introductory conversation.

Teacher: In the lessons of the surrounding world, we travel to the most interesting places in our city with the help of books, videos, and excursions. Today we will again go on a trip to one of the wonderful places in Moscow. This is the Tretyakov Gallery.

Opening the door to this fairy-tale house, we find ourselves in the kingdom of paintings.

Student: Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1898). (Annex 1)

The founder of the gallery was the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, a highly educated man and also a passionate collector. Over the years, he carefully and lovingly collected paintings by Russian artists. In 1892, Tretyakov fulfilled his dream - he donated the rich collection he had collected and the collection of his younger brother to Moscow.

Now on the screen you have seen the works of some artists whose paintings are in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery. (Annex 1)

Teacher: Today we will meet another Russian artist Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar.

3. A story about the artist and the history of the creation of the painting.

Student: Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871-1960). (Annex 1)

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar was born in Budapest in 1871. Five years after his birth, the family moved to live in Russia. He loved to draw since childhood, but after college he entered St. Petersburg University to study law. And only after graduation he begins to study at the Academy of Arts. During his long life he painted many landscapes and portraits. His most famous paintings are “March Snow” and “February Blue”.

Teacher: Traveling through the hall dedicated to the work of I. E. Grabar, we will stop and carefully look at one of the artist’s famous works, “February Azure.” (Annex 1)

The history of the creation of the painting.

One sunny February morning, walking around his estate, Igor Emmanuilovich saw an old birch tree at the edge of the forest, looked at it and dropped the stick from his hands, and when he began to pick it up, he bent down and looked at the birch from below, and was stunned by the beauty he saw: azure sky, coral branches, pearl-colored birches.

4. Looking at the picture.

a) Look at the painting “February Blue”.

Let's think about why the artist named his painting that way, and not winter, February day, birch?

Not an easy question, but can you guess?

What day did the artist show? (It’s sunny, there are reflections of the sun on the birches, there is snow, and it’s cold in winter.)

What colors are used to paint the trunk and branches of a birch tree? Can we say that they are pure white?

What colors are called cold and warm?

Does our painting combine both warm and cold tones?

Using card No. 1, choose adjectives that will help you see the colors of a sunny February day in the picture. (Annex 1)

Card No. 1.

The sky is blue, azure, clear, transparent air.

The day is cold, winter, cloudy, sunny.

Birch trees - old, young, branched, crooked, birch grove, mighty.

The branches are woven, thin, coral, thick.

Snow - white, blue, lilac, silver.

Shadows – lilac, blue, long black, sapphire.

Which birch tree did the artist depict in the foreground - young or old? (Old, twisted, huge, it has a thick trunk, many branches.)

And in the background, what birches? (One old and many young.)

Can you tell by the branches where the young ones are and where the old ones are? (No, they are intertwined with each other. The blue sky peeks through the branches. The air is transparent.)

Cover the bottom of the picture with your palm.

What does the pattern of branches, a plexus of white on a blue background, resemble? (Frosty pattern on glass. Lace.)

To show the lace, I. Grabar even dug a trench from where he could look up at the tree?

What trees are deep in the picture in the background? Why so small?

What genre does this painting belong to?

From art lessons you already know the meaning of this word landscape.

Let's write this word in the dictionary.

b) Work on a picture, according to its description, is usually carried out in the form of an essay or presentation.

We will write a creative dictation based on this picture.

c) In our conversation the words artist, painting are often heard. To make your speech vivid and figurative, choose synonyms for these words.

Artist – painter, master of brushes, landscape painter.

Painting – canvas, reproduction, canvas.

5. Working with text.

Listen to the dictation text:

The artist Grabar has a painting “February Azure”. The canvas depicts _______ day. There is _______ snow at the edge of the forest. Everything is filled with _______ light. The sky is _______ color. In the foreground is _______ birch. The trunk _______ many branches. Behind it you can see _______ birch trees. _______ branches of birch trees rush upward. They seem to be swimming in _______ air. Their interweaving resembles lace. _______ shadows lay on the snow. How much beauty there is in this landscape! The artist conveyed _______ the beauty of the familiar birch tree, where all the colors of the rainbow shimmer, united by _______ enamel of the sky.

What is missing from this text?

What is their role in speech?

Your task is to insert an appropriate adjective in the dictation text instead of a question, and also remember the rules for writing unstressed case endings.

Card No. 2.

Azure, lilac, blue, old, crooked, young, thick, white, coral, sapphire, transparent, winter, cold, sunny, blue, dear, familiar.

Remember how to determine the case of an adjective?

How to check the spelling of the unstressed ending of an adjective?

6. Writing a creative dictation.

a) The teacher reads the dictation text, in which questions are asked instead of adjectives.

The artist Grabar has a painting “February Azure”. The canvas depicts (what?) day. There is (what?) snow at the edge of the forest. Everything is filled with (what?) light. The sky is (what?) color. In the foreground is (what?) a birch tree. Trunk (what kind?), many branches. Behind it you can see (what?) birch trees. (What?) birch branches rush upward. They seem to be bathing in (what?) air. Their interweaving resembles lace. There were (what?) shadows in the snow. How much beauty there is in this landscape! The artist conveyed (what?) the beauty of the familiar birch tree, where all the colors of the rainbow shimmer, united by (what?) the enamel of the sky.

b) After the students have written a creative dictation, listen to two possible answers (average and best).

The artist Grabar has a painting “February Azure”. The canvas depicts a winter day. There is white snow at the edge of the forest. Everything is filled with sunshine. The sky is azure. In the foreground is an old birch tree. The trunk is crooked and thick, with many branches. Old and young birch trees are visible behind it. Coral branches of birches rush upward. They seem to be swimming in transparent air. Their interweaving resembles lace. Sapphire shadows lay across the snow. How much beauty there is in this landscape! The artist conveyed the fantastic beauty of the familiar birch tree, where all the colors of the rainbow shimmer, united by the blue enamel of the sky.

7. Conclusion.

We visited one of the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, where we got acquainted with the work of I.E. Grabar "February Azure". I hope you liked it and had great fun interacting with these amazing paintings.

Why did I choose this particular picture?

The birch is a symbol of Russian nature and has inspired not only famous artists, but also poets.

For a reading lesson, you studied S. Yesenin’s poem “White Birch Tree Under My Window.”

Close your eyes and try to imagine some pictures of nature. (To the music of P.I. Tchaikovsky, the student reads by heart S. Yesenin’s poem “White Birch Tree Under My Window.”)

After reading the poem, students share their impressions that were born in their imagination.

Artist I.E. Grabar and the poet S. Yesenin saw similar pictures. One of them described what he saw in words, the other drew it with paints. They managed to convey well the mood that a person experiences while admiring his native nature.

The ability of the brilliant Russian painter Igor Grabar to convey the moment when winter is about to give way to spring has never been disputed by either critics or ordinary viewers. So the painting “February Azure” miraculously takes us to a winter forest, which is already preparing to throw off the shackles of winter. It is imbued with the mood of this coming change to the last stroke.

“I stood near a marvelous specimen of birch, rare in the rhythmic structure of its branches. Looking at her, I dropped the stick and bent down to pick it up. When I looked at the top of the birch from below, from the surface of the snow, I was stunned by the spectacle of fantastic beauty that opened before me: some kind of chimes and echoes of all the colors of the rainbow, united by the blue enamel of the sky.” It should be noted that Grabar possessed the most important quality of a true painter - he knew how to truly see, that is, perceive in the world around him much more than what is revealed to the ordinary eye.

Work on this painting, which he later considered the most important in his work, proceeded in a very unique way: the sketch was painted from a trench that Grabar dug in deep snow. In this trench, the artist placed himself with an easel and a large canvas in search of a stronger impression of a low horizon and high sky (later he used this “trench” method in other full-scale paintings).
works). From this point, the artist was able to reveal the whole variety of blue tones in gradations from light green to ultramarine - what Ilya Ostroukhov would later call the “Indian sky.” The vertical format of the painting, as in White Winter, emphasizes the plasticity of the birch tree, which has spread its fan-shaped branches like wings, and emphasizes the infinity of the azure space.

The angle chosen by the artist is interesting: the viewer looks at the image from below, this expands the space of the picture. A lot of light colors were used in the work - white birch trees, snow, sky. But, despite this, the bright light color of the work does not interfere with its comfortable perception. In addition to a large number of whitish shades, the artist also uses colors traditionally associated with the arrival of spring: blue and ultramarine. The combination of colors helps the viewer understand that the days of winter are numbered and very soon spring will come into its own.

The main character of Grabar’s painting “February Azure” is, of course, the birch tree in the foreground. Its branches stand out clearly against the spring blue sky. Frost sparkles on them, framing the Russian beauty like a beautiful necklace. Behind her, the artist depicted several more birch trees, the beauty and grace of which echo the main character.

The mood of the picture is joyful, spring, despite the fact that winter has shackled nature with its cold. It is clear that spring with its cheerful streams and birdsong is just around the corner, the cold will soon end and the birches will be covered with catkins and young fresh leaves.

Year of painting: 1904.

Dimensions of the painting: 141 x 83 cm.

Material: canvas.

Writing technique: oil.

Genre: landscape.

Style: impressionism.

Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

1. Introduction: Winter in Rus'
2. “February Azure”: description
3. My impressions of the picture
4. Conclusion: Why did I like it?

Essay describing a painting (for 5th grade)

Mini essay-description “February Azure” by Grabar

Many people don't like winter. Wind, cold, snow drifts make them sad and make them sick. However, there is something majestic and beautiful in this harsh time. It is not for nothing that Russian frosts have become a symbol of Russia and its amulet, because it was they that frightened away our enemies from century to century. Unfortunately, day after day we see only the inconveniences that winter brings us. But artists see it differently. A striking example is Grabar’s landscape “February Azure”.

The description of Grabar’s painting “February Blue” can be summarized in a couple of lines. The artist painted several snow-covered birches against the blue sky. The trees are stuck in the snow. Behind them is a forest. Judging by the color, spruce and pine trees grow there. That's all that is depicted there. But what feelings does it evoke in the viewer? Personally, I felt a sense of pride in the beauty of my native land. The artist conveyed the very time when the first rays of the sun appear, heralding spring. There is still snow, the frost is still being driven away from the street, but the dazzling sun is already dispelling the melancholy and promising warmth. If you look at the sky, you can see the same blue color that you love in the summer. The birches no longer bend to the side under the weight of the snow, they have straightened up and are reaching for the light. Such a landscape brings a smile and hope for the quick arrival of spring. At such moments, the beauty of our great homeland becomes more noticeable, and artists feel it. Therefore, they draw, at first glance, simple plots, but they choose such a time of year and time of day that ordinary birch trees are transformed and become symbols of our nature. She is as honest, modest and open as this picture. These crooked trunks, dense forests and endless open spaces are very dear to our hearts.

Grabar's painting "February Azure"

I liked this picture because it is sunny and bright. The artist very accurately conveyed all the colors of the February sky, which were reflected in the snow. Therefore, although it depicts winter, it looks like spring. She radiates warmth, which is so lacking on the street now.

The many-wise Litrekon understands that boys and girls write descriptive essays differently, so we offer you two essay options: one for the fair sex, the other for the stronger half of humanity. But if something still doesn’t suit you, you are welcome to comment and state the essence of the problem.

Option 1 (male)

(177 words) I. E. Grabar is a Russian artist and art critic. He wrote not only paintings, but also articles on art, and after the revolution he did a lot to preserve the creative heritage of artists and icon painters.

The painting “February Azure” was painted in 1904. The artist was at his friends' dacha. He was walking and suddenly noticed a beautiful landscape that impressed I. E. Grabar so much that he immediately ran home to make a sketch, and the next day he dug his easel right into a snowdrift on the street and began to paint. A large-scale painting has been released, which is now exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery.

“February Azure” was created in the style of impressionism. Strokes of paint create a feeling of beauty, lightness and freshness. In front of the viewer is a birch grove, illuminated by the bright sun. On a February day, the sun shines especially brightly, it is already warming up so that the snow is gradually melting (in the picture you can see that it has already become grainy). Behind the trees you can see the blue, clear sky. It is immediately clear that spring is approaching. Looking at this picture, one becomes joyful and feels inspired.

I like this painting because the artist found beauty in the ordinary and showed it to his viewers. The painting gives a festive mood and inspires the search for beauty in everyday life.

Option 2 (female)

(203 words) I. E. Grabar did a lot for Russian painting. He not only created beautiful works himself, but also saved many paintings from destruction after the revolution, and helped restore icons and monasteries.

The painting “February Azure” was painted before all the upheavals of the 20th century. At the beginning of 1904, the artist went to visit friends. He was walking down the street and suddenly dropped his stick. An ordinary person would have cursed and raised his cane in displeasure. But the talented artist suddenly looked around and saw incredible beauty, a picture of a very close renewal, an imminent spring holiday. And now the sketch is ready, and soon the landscape follows.

The canvas depicts a forest. It goes deep into the picture, its scale is immediately visible. The azure sky, grainy snow - all this says that winter is gradually leaving this place. In nature, every second and cyclical work takes place: revival, growth, maturation, withering. And so again and again. The moment of coming to life is the most festive; the picture conveys not a plot, but a feeling. Not solid lines, but strokes create the silhouettes of birch trees, which gives more tenderness and fragility to the coming spring beauty. The combination of blue, white and brown enhances this impression.

I like this picture for its feeling of happiness and joy, this is sometimes so lacking in life. The artist managed to show the beauty of early spring, in which an ordinary person sees only slush under his feet.

1. Introduction (Interesting facts about the artist);
2. Main part (History of the creation of the painting and description of the canvas);
3. Conclusion (My opinion about the landscape of Grabar)