"Green Noise"

Work based on a painting by Arkady Rylov

...There is no nature separate from us,
every slight movement of air
is the movement of our own life.

I.A. Bunin

A.A.Rylov. In the blue expanse. 1918. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

In 1862 N.A. Nekrasov created his poetic masterpiece “Green Noise”. What does this mean - “green noise”? As if anticipating this question, the poet made a note: “this is what people call the awakening of nature in spring.” And today, almost a century and a half later, “green noise” sounds like a song about the awakening of nature and all the best that for the time being sleeps or lurks in the human soul.

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

Playfully, disperses
Suddenly a riding wind:
The alder bushes will shake,
Will raise flower dust,
Like a cloud: everything is green,
Both air and water!

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

Like drenched in milk,
There are cherry orchards,
They make a quiet noise;
Warmed by the warm sun,
Happy people making noise
Pine forests;
And next to it there is new greenery
They babble a new song
And the pale-leaved linden,
And a white birch tree
With a green braid!
A small reed makes noise,
The tall maple tree is noisy...
They make a new noise
In a new, spring way.

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

In Russia, these Nekrasov poems were not only loved, many knew them by heart. Years passed, and in 1904 the artist Arkady Rylov completed the painting, which placed him among the best landscape painters in the country. In his “Memoirs” he wrote: “... I lived in the summer on the steep, high bank of the Vyatka, birch trees rustled under the windows all day long, calming down only in the evening; a wide river flowed; I could see the distance with lakes and forests... When I arrived in St. Petersburg, this “Green Noise” remained in my ears... I worked a lot on this motif... trying to convey my feeling from the spring noise of birches... »

What a Russian, what a dear tree - birch! No other tree contains so many national concepts or gives rise to so many images and comparisons. Birch is truly a peasant tree. It has everything: a whitewashed hut, a Russian stove, a colorful homespun rug, a woman’s cotton scarf, a canvas shirt, a pockmarked chicken, and even milk. The gnarled trunks of birch trees look like calloused peasant hands that can do any job. And the thin and slender green-spiked birches, as if rising on tiptoe to the blue spring sky, resemble a girl’s round dance.

Rylov showed his painting to his friends. And there: the green crowns of birches lightly soared over the river, which flows through the emerald kingdom slowly and, it seems, completely silently. The playful waves became silent. Fluffy spruce paws, casting shaggy shadows, look into the mirror of the waters. A free breeze flies over a wide distance. So he picked up the thin flexible branches - and the leaves fluttered, began to speak, rustled, and darted about in a bizarre scattering in the azure sky. The white lace of a gentle cloud melts in the heights, lamb-like clouds float by... Everything moves, lives, rejoices in freedom and light, enjoys the boundless space. The bright spring greenery of the high bank, the river in the glare of the sun - how nice and free it is here in the spring!

Nekrasov’s lines, which sound like a declaration of love, fit perfectly here:

...But I love, golden spring,
Your continuous, miraculously mixed noise;
You rejoice, without stopping for a moment,
Like a child, without care or thoughts,
In the charm of happiness and glory,
You are completely devoted to the feeling of life, -
The green grasses are whispering something,
The wave flows talkatively...

Over the hills, through the forests, over the valley
The birds of the north fly and scream,
You can hear the song of a nightingale at once
And discordant squeaks gabble...
The cry of frogs, the buzzing of wasps...
Everything merged into the harmony of life...

N. Nekrasov . My heart breaks with agony...

Having seen the picture, Rylov’s friend, the artist Bogaevsky, recited Nekrasov’s poem “Green Noise.” Better name it was impossible to think of for the picture. So Nekrasov’s poems became forever related to one of best paintings Rylov, marking the flowering of his talent. Nowadays, one of the versions of Arkady Rylov’s painting “Green Noise” adorns the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the other - the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. I like the one in Tretyakov Gallery.

Let's turn over a few pages of the artist's book of life. Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov was born on January 29, 1870. His childhood and youth were spent in the north. The family lived in Vyatka, located on the banks of a wide, high-water river with the same name. The land of forests, lakes and rivers captivated the artist with its beauty and majesty. Rylov fell in love with nature passionately and for the rest of his life. He could wander through forests and meadows all day long, sit for hours by the water, watching some water hen splash its paws on the coastal mud, watch for a long time a fluffy fussing squirrel...

A lot can be said about Rylov’s love for nature. But I will just remind you of one fact that will allow everyone to draw their own conclusions. The artist had a tabletop zoo at home, where its inhabitants - monkeys, squirrels, birds - walked. The animals were not afraid of Arkady Alexandrovich. The artist captured this touching trust of “our little brothers” in “Self-Portrait with a Squirrel.” The fluffy guest settled calmly and comfortably on a kind, gentle hand!

Rylov was educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He was lucky enough to work in the workshop famous landscape painter Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. He experienced the strong influence not only of creativity, but also of the personality of his mentor. Kuindzhi was a born enthusiastic teacher who selflessly loved young people and his work. He constantly looked after his pets, helped financially poor students, and used his own funds to take them to Crimea for summer practice and even abroad.

Kuindzhi paid a lot of attention to working in nature, which he considered the painter’s very first and serious teacher. He taught the art of seeing, feeling, understanding nature.

Artistic life V late XIX- early 20th century was difficult. Various associations of artists organized their exhibitions. Their participants often differed in their views on the tasks and role of art, on the goals of creativity. But Rylov’s sincere, poetic art, inspired by a tender love for nature, was accepted everywhere: his paintings could be seen in the “Union of Russian Artists”, and at exhibitions of the “World of Art” association, and at “Spring” exhibitions organized by his teacher A. AND. Kuindzhi.

In the paintings painted after graduating from the academy, Rylov sought to convey the charm of the thoughtful, deep silence of the northern forest nature. These were a kind of “mood landscapes” characteristic of the work of many artists of those years.

A.A.Rylov. Green noise. 1904. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow

Having chosen the path of a landscape artist, Arkady Rylov retained the bright image of his teacher in his memory for the rest of his life and used his techniques in his own pedagogical work. As a professor at the Academy of Arts, and teaching at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists for almost his entire life, he lovingly nurtured young talents. The students remembered him kind words. They forever remembered his behest: truth and beauty are sisters. The artist just needs to learn to see the eternal harmony of nature and through labor, great labor, achieve the expression of this beauty. The talented Russian landscape painter was also recognized by noisy Paris, which was considered a trendsetter in art. Rylov was elected a member of the honorary jury of the Paris Salon (exhibition). And not just, but with the right to exhibit your paintings there without prior discussion by the jury. At international exhibitions, his works were repeatedly awarded gold medals.

“Our Russian Grieg” is what his artist friend Mikhail Nesterov called Arkady Rylov. And rightly so. For just as in the music of the Norwegian composer, who embodied the images of northern nature, a sensitive ear will catch the noise of mountain streams, the crystal ringing of ice floes, the roar of the wind in the gorges, so in Rylov’s paintings deep, sonorous, rich color gives rise to images of Russian nature.

Rylov knew how to look especially poetically at the most ordinary pictures of nature, past which hundreds of people passed without noticing them: white parachutes of dandelions in a green meadow; blue rivers where reflections of clouds floating across the sky bathe; a nimble red squirrel jumping around the fluffy spruce branches; spring migration of birds; birches, their branches fluttering in the wind; deftly jumping in the corolla of the kupava sunny bunny... The artist was overwhelmed with impressions from what he saw. Hands reached out to the brush, the brush to the canvas, and pictures were born about native nature, and therefore about native land.

Probably, the artist Rylov with his paintings wanted not only to “witness” and glorify the beauty and originality native nature, native land, but also to remind that man is responsible for its preservation and prosperity. I will name just a few paintings by Arkady Rylov: “Sunset” (1917), “Thundering River” (1917), “Swans” (1920), “Green Lace”, “Seagulls. Quiet Evening" (1918), "Hot Day" (1922), "Forest River", "Self-Portrait with a Squirrel" (1934), "Green Noise" (1904), "In the Blue Expanse" (1918)...

One day, for the first time in his life, the artist saw white swans in freedom - beautiful, proud birds were making their spring migration. Nature endowed swans with an indomitable desire for light and warmth and gave these graceful creatures great strength. The free flight of mighty white birds over the boundless northern sea captured the artist’s imagination for a long time. There was something epic about this spectacle. And in 1918, in one breath, he painted the painting “In the Blue Expanse.” It was a repetition of the painting “Flight of Swans over the Kama”, written by him in 1914, but this time in a major key. In the new painting, the master achieved not only expressive laconicism artistic language, but also the symbolic sound of the image. Nowadays the painting “In the Blue Expanse” is in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Blue-green waves crash onto the reddish rocks of a distant island. Sparkling snow glistens on the tops of the rocks. A light sailboat sways on the waves. And light clouds slowly float above the horizon in the delicate azure. The majestic and harsh northern nature greets the morning of a new day. White swans, as if bathing in crystal air, hover over the water, now descending, now rising towards the lilac curly clouds. With each flap of the mighty wings, gentle colored shadows fall on the snow-white plumage - and more and more new shades appear in the overall joyful range of golden-lilac and bluish-green tones. There is so much air in the picture that the viewer himself seems to feel the fresh breath of the wind. Smooth rhythm of movement and major coloring, which he managed to convey talented artist, composed a poetic song. White swans over the northern sea even today evoke a feeling of joy, a feeling of vast space and light.

There are artists whose paintings are immediately recognized at exhibitions and are not forgotten for a long time. One of these artists is Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov.

Homework(one of the options of students' choice).

I. Make a plan for a story on the topic “A Tale about the Artist Arkady Rylov” (written).
II. Give reasoned answers to the questions:

1. What, in your opinion, is evidenced by the desire of a landscape artist to glorify the beauty of his native nature?

(About love for your homeland, for nature is one of its components.)

2. It’s easy to love the starry sky, the mirror surface of a forest lake, and sunlit trees, because they are beautiful in themselves. Is it possible to admire and love a small river or a tree with gnarled branches?..

(Nekrasov in the poem “ Railway" wrote:
There is no ugliness in nature! And kochi,
And moss swamps and stumps -
Everything is fine under the moonlight,
Everywhere I recognize my native Rus'...

To love, for example, roads washed out by the thaw, as Fyodor Vasiliev loved them, can only be loved by a person who loves every inch of his native land. It’s no coincidence that people say: “It’s not good that’s good, but good that’s good.”.)

3. What means does the artist have in his arsenal to convey the meaning of the picture and mood?

(Plan - foreground or background, size, contrast, color, art of bringing tones together, rhythm, backstage technique...)

4. Is it possible, from your point of view, to judge a person’s relationship with nature - plants and animals? spiritual qualities and attitude towards people?

(It has long been noted that those who love and protect nature, plant flowers, shrubs and trees, take care of animals, as a rule, have a sympathetic attitude towards people. There is a moral and aesthetic pattern: a lover of nature is at the same time a lover of humanity. On the contrary, the one who senselessly destroys trees, birds, animals is also cruel towards people.)

5. How would you comment on Bernard Shaw’s statement: “We have learned to swim in water like fish. Fly in the sky like birds. All that remains is to learn to live on earth like people”?

6. Why do you think nature can be an eternal source of inspiration for landscape artists?

(Nature is “forever young”, cosmically boundless, changeable and diverse, it has many unsolved mysteries, touching which helps a person to know himself.)

Literature

Master romantic landscape A.A. Rylov (1870–1939) / In the book: V.I. Gapeeva, E.V. Kuznetsova. Conversations about Soviet artists. - M.–L.: Education, 1964. P. 46–51.

Masters Soviet art about the landscape / Comp. Bodanova E.I. M., 1963. pp. 62–68.

Mochalov L. A.A. Rylov. - L.: Artist of the RSFSR, 1966.

Rylov A. Memories. - L.: Artist of the RSFSR, 1966.

Fedorov-Davydov A.A. Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov. - M., 1959.

Essay based on Rylov’s painting “Green Noise”

1. Artist.

3. Boat with people.

4. Background.

5. My impression.

The artist N. Romandin is a famous Russian landscape painter, who is characterized by a gentle, lyrical depiction of his native northern nature. Small forests, rivers and lakes, modest copses - all this resembles a quiet, drawn-out folk song.

The painting “Kerzhenets” depicts a river overgrown with willows. Bent over the water, the willows seem to admire the yellow spring fluffs on their branches. The river has apparently overflowed, and many trees now stand immersed in waist-deep water.

Looking at the picture, you first notice modest colors, like small splashes of yellow, greenish, blue, purple paints, and only then you realize that there are people in the picture. These are fishermen sailing on a boat. One person sits, sorting out the gear, and the other rows, standing at the stern. The surface of the river shimmers with different fuzzy colors, reflecting the dim sky and dark banks. The boat glides, almost without disturbing the water, followed by a barely noticeable lighter trail.

In the background of the picture we see another shore covered with forest. Weak, thin and crooked fir trees and birches stand there, also partly in the water. The branches of birch trees are lilac, creating a feeling of something extraordinary, magical, like in an old fairy tale.

The magical coloring of the painting in pale tones of blue, purple, brownish and yellow sparks of willow flowers, as if splashed from a brush, create an indistinct feeling of peace and slight sadness with an admixture of quiet joy from the anticipation of the coming spring.

I liked this painting because I really love spring, and I am close to the feelings that the artist wants to convey. It even seems to me that I once saw something similar, just like that, sailing on a boat along a flooded river, surrounded by small forests.

Each painter, having left his contribution to art, taught his fans to love and understand beauty. A.A. also plays an important role in this. Rylov. His brush is the work of a wonderful painting – “Green Noise”. The title of this work alone says that what we are looking at is not a frozen landscape, but a living, meaningful nature. You can plunge into it to feel very real emotions. How to do this? You just need to look at the picture carefully.

Someone may ask: “Can noise really be green? Then why is it not red or blue? And why does it have to be colored?” Shouldn't! Of course, the noise should not be multi-colored! But that’s exactly what he is in A.A.’s painting. Rylova. Take a closer look for yourself and you will “see” it! You will see how the wind rustles in the trees, how birch trees, flapping their branches like wings, try to take off and fly away into the distance. The trees beg the roots to let them go, they ask, and even sing songs to them. But the tenacious rhizomes stubbornly prevent the giants from flying up. And the sky is calling! Every cloud that flies like a fragile feather over the trees waves at them and beckons them to forget about everything and take flight.

In Rylov’s painting, not only the trees and fluffy clouds are spiritual, but the background, in which the blue fields and blue distance are also full of expressiveness. The painter conveys this in colorful tones. Expression is immediately felt, excitement and vivid emotions are immediately awakened. The canvas will not leave anyone indifferent; it is ready to give everyone the depth with which the artist felt nature. And the viewer unwittingly adopts this. He, hearing the noise of green branches, becomes a participant in the action.

Essay based on the painting “Green Noise” by A.A. Rylov

Arkady Rylov is an outstanding Russian landscape artist born in 1870. His canvases surprise with their mood and beauty, thereby delighting not only the audience but also the performer himself. Rylov was born on the road (his parents were heading to Vyatka) and lived most of his life in the North and lovingly put all the beauty of those places into his paintings, and the canvas “green noise”, on which he worked for two whole years, glorified the artist. He conveyed not only the incredible beauty of his native places, but also sound, character, harmony and thoughts. In 1904, three copies were already created, and all of them are in Russian museums.

The first thing that catches your eye when looking at this masterpiece is its brightness, colorfulness, and saturation. The clear blue sky, decorated with snow-white clouds, gives contrast to the dark green trees and blue water. The picture conveys life and youth with its entire appearance, despite the depicted trees that are not even a dozen years old.

The author painted a wonderful landscape of a sunny day. The view opens from above, from a mountain on which large mighty trees grow, and below a wide winding river flows, and white sailboats float along it. Due to the unclear images of grass and tree crowns, it is clear that a strong wind is blowing with all its might, bending the branches, creating noise.

Looking at the picture, I get the impression that I am in that clearing and looking at the real, and not at the painted, beauty of nature. I inhale fresh air, I smell fresh grass, the aromas of small but fragrant flowers and hear the song of rustling leaves. The name of this painting was given by Bogaevsky, who was one of the first invited, together with Kuindzhi, to evaluate the painting. Looking at it for the first time, he began to quote Nekrasov’s poem “Green Noise,” words that fit perfectly with the landscape, and the assigned name remained.

Essay based on the painting by A. A. Rylov “Green Noise”

The outstanding Russian artist Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov was born in 1870. The artist spent his childhood and youth in the north, in Vyatka. A wide river flowed here, there were many forests and lakes. The beauty and harmony of nature delighted the young man. He wandered through the forest for a long time, observing the beauty and splendor of the surrounding world. Rylov studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and studied in the studio of the famous landscape painter Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.

It was Kuindzhi who had a significant influence on the formation of the personality and worldview of the young artist. The works that Rylov wrote after graduation contained the charm of northern forest nature. These were “mood landscapes”, characteristic of the work of many artists.

The talented Russian artist Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov described Rylov as follows: “The beauty of Rylov’s paintings lay in their inner and external beauty, in their “musicality”, in quiet, caressing, or spontaneous, stormy experiences of nature. Its mysterious forests, with the noises of their forest inhabitants, breathe and live a special, enchanting life. Its seas, rivers, lakes, a clear sky promising a “bucket” for tomorrow, or a sky with clouds rushing somewhere - promises trouble - everything, everything in Rylov is in action, everything is dynamic - the joy of life replaces its drama. The dark forest is full of anxiety, the stormy banks of the Kama, perhaps, bring death to someone. We experience the autumn migration of birds across distant seas as a personal loss of clear days. Everything from Rylov is full of meaning, and nowhere, in any way, is he indifferent to meaning, to the ongoing mysteries of nature and its inhabitants. He sings, glorifies and magnifies the Motherland... Rylov is not just a “landscape painter”, he, like Vasiliev, like Levitan, is a deep, sincere poet. He is dear to us, he is dear to us, because nature releases the Rylovs very, very sparingly..."

During his life, Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov created many amazing paintings. But the most famous of them are the landscapes “Green Noise” and “In the Blue Expanse”.

The painting “Green Noise” was painted in 1904. A. A. Rylov worked on this work for two years. During his work, the artist used the experience of observing nature, as well as sketches that he made in the vicinity of St. Petersburg and Vyatka. Three copies of this painting were created. The first is in the Russian Museum, the second in Moscow, in the Tretyakov Gallery. The third copy is in the Museum of Russian Art in Kyiv.

The picture attracted the attention of viewers with a riot of fresh, bright colors. The artist depicted the forest in all its splendor. The artist himself wrote in his memoirs: “I worked a lot on this motif, rearranging and rewriting everything several times, trying to convey the feeling of the cheerful noise of birches, of the wide expanse of the river. I lived in the summer on the steep, high bank of the Vyatka, the birches rustled under the windows all day long, calming down only in the evening; a wide river flowed; Distances with lakes and forests could be seen. From there I went to the estate to visit my student. There, the alley of old birch trees, going from the house to the field, was also always noisy. I loved walking along it and writing and drawing these birches. When I arrived in St. Petersburg, this “green noise” remained in my ears...”

The story of how the painting was given its name is very interesting. When the work was ready, Rylov showed it famous artists Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi and Konstantin Fedorovich Bogaevsky.

And when Bogaevsky first saw the picture, he began to recite Nekrasov’s poem “Green Noise.” So the film was given the name “Green Noise”. In fact, Nekrasov’s lines fit this canvas perfectly.

The Green Noise goes on and on,

Green Noise, spring noise!

Playfully, it disperses. Suddenly the riding wind:

The alder bushes will shake,

Will raise flower dust,

Like a cloud: everything is green,

Both air and water!

The Green Noise goes on and on,

Green Noise, spring noise!

Once the artist K.F. Bogaevsky jokingly said about the work: “The picture was painted by Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov, and “Green Noise” is my invention.”

When we look at Rylov’s painting, we get the impression that we are standing on a hill, and a river opens in front of us, with boats with sails on it. There are many trees near the river. The day is clear and windy. The sky is clear, soft blue, with colorful clouds on it. They are illuminated by the sun's rays, so the clouds turn white, pink, and purple.

The foliage of the trees is also illuminated by the sun's rays. It shines and shimmers. It seems that the foliage moves, lives, trembles under the gusts of wind. Nature in the picture looks strong, alive and very harmonious. Strong winds cause trees to bend. It seems as if we hear the howling of the wind. Young birch trees look so fragile and defenseless. They are about to fly away to wherever the wind takes them. Mature trees look stronger. They have been standing for decades, they are strong and powerful. The wind is not scary for them.

Small boats rush along the wide dark blue river. The wind inflates the sails, and the boats rush somewhere into the distance. They seem so light and weightless.

The artist’s undoubted merit is that he knew how to show the poetry and beauty of the most ordinary pictures of nature. You need to have real talent as a painter to see and realize the harmony and splendor of landscapes. Impressions that go unnoticed by most people are of great importance to a true artist.

Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov is one of the outstanding and famous Russian landscape painters. His mood landscapes have repeatedly surprised not only art lovers, but also the creators themselves. Having lived in the North for many years, he put his love for these places into his paintings. His painting “Green Noise” brought great delight and fame to the author.

Work on this painting lasted two years. The author created three copies of such raging beauty. All of them occupy pride of place in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Kiev Museum of Russian Art.

The first impression that is created when looking at the picture is that it is bright. Rich green and blue colors amaze their people with violence. Even a blue sky with white clouds glows with brightness and contrast. The author showed us a hill near the river. A small green clearing among mighty trees opens up a beautiful view of a meandering river with white sails. But the trees attract the most attention. They move just like that in the picture from strong wind. Their branches are tilted in one direction or the other, creating the impression of sounding noise. The author observed all these beauties in his native land. He wanted to convey not only the beauty of nature, but also its character and sound.

When you look at this work, you get the impression that you are looking out the window, breathing in fresh air, feeling the aroma of nature and hearing its song. This is amazing.