Summary of educational activities in the senior group of the preschool educational institution “Winter Fun” (composing a story based on a picture)

January 3, 2021

Program content:

Improve children's ability to write a descriptive story based on a picture.
Strengthen the ability to present the content of a picture in detail and logically; independently invent events preceding and following those depicted in the picture.
Practice composing sentences and incorporating them into a coherent statement.
To develop children's coherent speech in story writing, attention, and memory.
Develop the ability to listen to the answers of your comrades to the end, without shouting.

Materials and equipment: painting “Winter Fun”, stereo system, DVD with music by A. Vivaldi “Winter”, board, magnets. Preliminary work: conversations with children about winter and winter activities, selection of definitions, selection of synonyms for the word quickly - swiftly, dashingly, at full speed, like an arrow, in an instant, immediately, etc.

GCD move

Educator: Guys, let's guess the riddle and find out what we will talk about. So listen to the riddle.

I dusted the paths, decorated the windows, and gave joy to the children. And I went for a sledding ride. (Winter).

A short conversation on the following questions:

Guys, what is this riddle about? (About winter).
What is our winter like? (Severe, white, silver, fluffy, snowy, frosty, cold).
What happens in winter? (Snow is falling, the wind is howling, rivers are freezing).

Well done guys, you remembered all its signs.

Exercise “Name the action” (with a ball).

Educator: I will say an unfinished sentence, and the one to whom I pass the ball will finish the word I didn’t say.

In winter there is a snowstorm... (sweeping).
At night the wind in the pipes... (howls, howls).
From a snow cloud, snowflakes... (fall, fly, spin).
There is a hungry wolf in the forest in winter... (howls).
For the winter, the bear is in a den...... (falls asleep).
Frost on the cheeks and nose... (stings).
In winter, the water in the river... (freezes).
Frost on tree branches... (glitters).
In winter, snow is all around... (covers).
Trees in winter... (sleep).
Grass under the snow in winter... (warming up).
In winter, insects... (hide).

Well done! You know winter phenomena well. Do you know what winter cannot be without? Let's continue playing.

Game "Third Man".

Educator: Now listen to my winter words, one of the three words will be superfluous, you need to name it, explaining your decision:

1. January, February, winter.

2. Snowballs, sleds, skates.

3. Blizzard, skiing, frost.

4. Snowball, snowman, bullfinch.

Right! What smart people and smart girls! You know everything about winter and winter phenomena. Guys, do you think winter is good or bad?

Suggested children's answers:

It’s good in winter because there is a lot of snow and you can build a snowman and have snowball fights.
It’s good in winter, you can sled down the mountain.
In winter comes the best holiday - New Year, and this is very good.
It’s bad in winter, when it’s very cold, we don’t go for walks.
Birds feel bad in winter - they are cold and have nothing to eat.
In winter it’s nice and fun, we go skiing and play hockey.

For each answer, the teacher draws a circle of snowballs “good”, “bad”.

Educator: Guys, look at the snowballs and draw a conclusion: which snowball is bigger? There are more good things in winter: the kids love to play, have fun, and play sports.

But what games do they like to play? I'll tell you some riddles :

My new friends are both brilliant and light, And they frolic with me on the ice, and are not afraid of the frost. (Skates).

They run forward with their noses in the air. Two stripes follow them. (Skis).

Oh, it's snowing! I'm bringing out my friend horse. I fly down the hill on it, and drag it back. (Sled).

Physical exercise.

“Winter has finally come, (children spread their arms to the sides)
The houses have become white (they fold their hands over their heads)
It's snowing outside (move hands from top to bottom)
A janitor sweeps the street (imitate)
We are sledding (squat, arms extended forward)
We write circles on the skating rink (put our hands behind our backs and spin slowly)
Skiing deftly, (imitate)
And we all play snowballs. (They make and throw snowballs)"

It's good in winter - a lot of games and fun. What can you do in winter? (Sledding, skiing, skating, building forts, making snowmen, etc.).

Dynamic pause.

Educator: Now we will play. You (points to half of the group) will be snowflakes, and you (the other half) will be the wind. The game is repeated twice, the subgroups change roles. Snowflakes are spinning, running on tiptoes, the breeze is resting. As soon as I say “the breeze has woken up,” the breeze blows, shhh, and the snowflakes settle.

Didactic ball game “Name it kindly”

(Children catch the ball, give answers to the teacher with a diminutive suffix):

Snow - snowball
wind - breeze
star – asterisk
winter - winter
Christmas tree - Christmas tree
snowflake - snowflake
sun - sunshine
snowman - snowman
star - asterisk.

Educator: Many poets, writers and artists depicted winter in their works. And in our art gallery there is a picture about winter. (The teacher draws the children’s attention to the painting “Winter Fun”).

Educator: In a real art gallery there is a guide who tells all visitors interestingly about the paintings. Do you want to try to become a tour guide, compose and tell a story based on this picture?

Communication by picture:

What time of year is shown here?
Why did the children come to the hill, and what happened there?
What were the children doing? (Children sledding down the mountain, making a snow woman, skiing, playing snowballs).
How do the guys play in winter? (Fun, joyful, friendly, interesting, fervent).
At the end of the story, tell me what mood the guys were in and why you decided that way.

– Remember the words that will decorate your story and make it interesting. Do not forget that children can be called differently when telling stories (children - kids, guys, boys and girls, they).

Children's stories based on the picture.

Reflection.

- What did we do today? You did your best today and made up different interesting stories. It seems to me that this story will be interesting for your moms and dads to listen to at home.

As a farewell gift, I want to give you pictures – “Winter Fun” coloring pages. Winter has only white paint, but you can color them with your colored pencils.

Author: Gumerova Rezeda Khalidovna, teacher at MBDOU DS KV “Beryozka”, Novy Urengoy, Tyumen region.

Conversation on the painting by I.I. Shishkina “Winter” (senior group)

— Guys, we found ourselves in this picture, and it was painted by the great artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, and it’s called “Winter.”

Part II Main (conversation)

- Let's see what you see around? What surrounds us?

-What kind of forest is this? Yes, this is an old, dense, impenetrable forest, they also say “spruce forest”.

-Why did we decide that this was an old and dense spruce forest?

-Look at the spruce trees. What can you say about them? What are they?

Huge branches with powerful thick trunks start high at the top. These are forest heroes.

- What do you see closer to us?

-And a little further, what do we see? A dense forest, a thicket - you can’t get through it.

-What do we see on earth? What lies under the snow?

Huge trunks of fallen old trees. In some places the trunks of the fir trees had already bent, but had not yet fallen.

-Are there small Christmas trees and bushes here?

Yes, they are barely visible from under the snow coats.

-Guys, why do you think the artist painted the forest in such a way that we don’t even see the tops of the trees?

-What attracted his attention most?

Yes, there is snow in this spruce forest!

-Where do you think the artist stood when he painted this picture? He stood very close to the trees, so he did not see their tops, but only saw their trunks.

In the foreground in front of us is a slightly open clearing with fallen trees covered with fluffy snow, and a little in the distance we can see a gap between the spruce trees.

-So why did the artist want to pay attention to what is below - to the snowy clearing?

Below everything is immersed in shadow.

— How did the artist depict snow in the picture? (The snow on the ground lies in a fluffy, large, snow-white blanket; the branches are so shrouded in a blanket of snow that they bend under its weight).

— Look at the color of the snow. Is it snow-white everywhere? (Unusual, brownish-white, creamy - this is from brown tree trunks, and where there are deep shadows and traces it is also bluish, and somewhere blue).

— How did the artist paint the sky? (The sky is very light, almost white, and towards the horizon it darkens. These are snow clouds)

It’s cold, frosty and it seems that everything in this forest has fallen asleep, frozen, frozen. And only the warm brown tones of the spruce trunks indicate that the forest has fallen asleep, but it is alive.

Enchantress in winter

The forest is bewitched,

And under the snow fringe,

motionless, mute

He shines with a wonderful life. (F. Tyutchev)

- Listen, are there any sounds in the picture? And in such silence you can hear the slightest rustle. What do you hear? (The creaking of snow, the whisper of the wind, the crackling of branches, tree trunks, and then a bird flew from branch to branch).

-Do you still see a living creature? Take a closer look. Has anyone been spotted in this forest? Here's another riddle the artist asked us. Found it? This is a bird on a branch, it seems that it also fell asleep, like the trees.

Conversation on the painting by A. K. Savrasov “The Rooks have Arrived”

Topic: Conversation on the painting by A. K. Savrasov “The Rooks have Arrived”

Goals:

-to help children see and feel the soulful beauty of their native Russian nature in the film “The Rooks Have Arrived”;

— learn to establish semantic associations, answer questions independently;

- use common sentences with homogeneous definitions in speech...

Preliminary work

Acquaintance with poems about spring by F.I. Tyutchev “Spring”, “Spring Waters”, A.N. Pleshcheev “Spring”, I. Tokmakova “Spring”
Reading the story by E. Shima “Stone, stream, icicle and sun”
Guessing riddles about spring.
Repetition of migratory birds - the game "Fly away - arrived."
Repetition of the spring months - the game "Before - between - for"

Equipment

Reproduction of A.K. Savrasov’s painting “The Rooks Have Arrived”

Lesson plan. Introduction

Invitation to the opening day.

I invite you to the opening day. Vernissage is a place in a museum where paintings are shown. Imagine that we are in a large hall of a museum. And I am your guide, I will introduce you to the picture. True, there will be only one picture, but it will be very famous. The teacher opens the picture on the easel.

Silent holistic perception.

This painting is called “The Rooks Have Arrived”, it was painted by Russian artist Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov. Why is it so famous, why do people come from different cities and even different countries to see it? What is her secret?

Today I will help you reveal its secrets.

A conversation based on a picture, complicated by grammatical tasks.

Tell us about the birch trees in the foreground. What are they?

What's happening on the birches?

What can you say about the lone rook on the left, near the old gnarled birch tree?

Who is the main character of the picture? Why?

This is the first secret, the rooks discovered spring, early, not bright, still with cold days, remnants of snow.

2. But what happened to the snow, what is it like under the birches, in the fields? You can say about him in lines from poetry: “The snow is no longer the same: It has darkened in the field...”

The artist paints the picture in cold colors, there are no bright greens or bright colors here. And yet there is a beauty of spring in her. Here's the second secret.

3. Let's go deeper into the picture.

Let's walk along the right bank of the river. What's there?

Village. What kind of houses? (high, low). What are houses and barns made of?

(wooden). What is in the middle of the village? High bell tower. What is it built from (stone, white). What to call it in one word?

White stone. What can you see behind it? (End of the village.) What's behind the village? (Field) Tell us about it. Beyond the field you can see a thin strip of forest. This is the horizon line. She merges with the high sky. That's how far we've come. This is the third secret. The picture has depth and height. The bell tower is high, but the sky is even higher. It has a lot of space. The artist divided it in half with the horizon line. One half is everything that grows and stands on the earth, the other half is the sky.

4.Look at the sky in the picture. What is it like?

The sky is covered with clouds. What can they be called? (Cover). However they are tall. What color are they? (white, gray...) In a word - white-gray. But in the left corner of the picture the clouds parted, as if the wind had torn them apart, we can see the edge of what? (blue sky). Such blue skies only happen in spring.

It’s like a window and the artist let in a lot of air smelling like spring. Smells live in the painting. Which? (The smell of melting snow, fresh air, the smell of swollen spring buds, the smell of warm earth) Here is another secret.

5. In spring the air is fresh and fragrant. I want to breathe deeply, enjoy spring, sing, smile, laugh. Even the rooks are happy with her. They scream, make noise... What else can sound in a picture where the sounds of nature live? (The river is noisy, murmurs, the branches are noisy, the wings of rooks are noisy, the wind is noisy) The voices of birds, the noise of nature live in the picture.

This is the new secret we have discovered.

Spring is coming, spring is coming!

We are the messengers of young spring

She sent us ahead!..

And this key will show us what you remember while looking at the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived”

Didactic exercise “Drawing thoughts on the board”
Game “Magic Chain” On the shore there were three......

What is the name of the painting you came across?

Who wrote it?

Graphic dictation. "Key"

These keys will help you discover new secrets of new paintings.

MAGAZINE Preschooler.RF

Program content: 1. Primary acquaintance of children with the creativity of I.I. Shishkina; 2. continue to develop the artistic perception of works of art; to form an idea of the means of expression used by the artist to create an image; 3. develop the ability to give an aesthetic assessment of a work; 4. cultivate interest in painting Material: slides – paintings by I.I. Shishkina “Rye”, “Pine forest”, “Morning in a pine forest”, “Pines illuminated by the sun”, “Rain in an oak forest”, “In the wild north”, “Among the flat plain”; F. Vasiliev “Wet Meadow”; audio recording “Sounds of the forest”, “Sounds of rain”

Preliminary work: conversations about the genre of landscape; conversation “Who are artists?”; excursion to the art gallery of the preschool educational institution

Vocabulary work: red forest, amber, vegetation, etude

Literature: 1. Veretennikova S. A. “Introducing preschool children to nature”, Moscow, “Enlightenment”, 1993 2. Nikolaeva S. N. “Formation of the principles of ecological culture”, “Preschool education”, 1994, no. 7. 3. Ryzhova N. A. “Our home is nature”, “Preschool education”, 1994, No. 7. 4. Samorukova P. G. “How to introduce preschoolers to nature”, Moscow, “Prosveshchenie”, 1983.

Progress of the lesson: 1st lesson I.I. Shishkin was born in the city of Yelabuga on that January day when his father, who had fallen into a wormwood on the Kama, lay in a fever and was almost dying. They named the baby Ivan so as not to lose Ivan from the family (by sign). The father survived. And he really fell in love with his blue-eyed son with black curls. Vanichka affectionately called him. The years passed, the boy grew up. The father saw that his son was drawing either with a stick on the ground or with charcoal on a flat stone and gave him a pencil and notebooks. Vanya loved to draw most of all while sitting on a stump in a pine forest. He painted golden stars of St. John's wort, shaggy leaves of yarrow, red droplets of strawberries, and a fontanel with crystal ringing streams. He loved to wander through the pine forest. (Display of the painting “Pine Forest”) - Let’s take a walk among the pines. What do you see? Do you hear? (children's answers) The trunks of the pines are pinkish-orange, the shaggy crowns are high above, and when the sun stands at dawn in the evening or morning and shines along the trunks, then everything around turns red. It’s not for nothing that the pine forest is called “red forest”. One day, Vanya’s father asked him to show him what was in the notebooks. I was surprised by his powers of observation and the accuracy of his drawings and gave him watercolors. One summer, when Vanya was 9 years old, he sat in the forest near his favorite spring and painted with watercolors. He loved to paint here - water is nearby, you bring it in handfuls, pour it into the hollow of a large white stone, like in a cup, and wash yourself a brush. Vanya was so busy drawing that he didn’t notice. How the postman came up to him and sat down next to him. Suddenly a bear appeared in the clearing - fluffy, brown with amber eyes. The postman was very scared. Following the bear, 2 bear cubs appeared. Vanya quickly began to mix paint with a brush - yellow, dark brown and burgundy - to sketch them. The postman whispers: “What are you, what are you, let them go!” And Vanya says: “Mishenka, friend, come here,” and the little bear, as if he understood, went to the people. From fright, the postman fell to the ground, and Vanya, taking pity on him, said, turning to the bears: “Okay, go away, he’s afraid of you!” All three turned back and disappeared into the forest. And Vanya cried because he couldn’t sketch them and was very angry with the postman. (Display of the painting “Morning in a Pine Forest”) Look at this painting. It's called "Morning in a Pine Forest." Shishkin drew it when he was already an adult. (turn on the recording “Sounds of the Forest”) It seems that recently a storm raged here, breaking trees, twisting them out of the ground. And now good morning is rising and the cubs, those whom little Vanechka once saw near a spring in the forest, are having fun at the edge of the old dense forest. We know that music and painting are sisters. Both music and paintings can be sad and cheerful, quiet and loud, gentle and disturbing... - Look at this picture and tell me what it is like? (children's answers) - Why do you think so? How did the artist express his feelings? (joy - the sun is rising, the forest is waking up, bear cubs are playing happily; calm - the serenity of the bears, silence, calmness). The artist loved the forest very much. The poet Baratynsky has poems that seem to be written about Shishkin:

With nature alone he breathed life: He understood the babbling of streams, And he understood the talk of tree leaves, And he felt the vegetation of grass.

Now listen to how Vanya Shishkin’s fate unfolded next. As Vanyusha grew up, his father sent him to Kazan to study at a men's gymnasium. He was very bored there. It was no longer possible to wander through the forests all day long and draw for pleasure; it would be a quick vacation, quickly take an album and paints - into the forest. Vanya dreams of becoming a real artist. Everyone laughs at him and doesn’t believe in him. But not his father and his beloved sister Katyusha (he had 4 sisters and a brother). Vanya studied for 4 years in Kazan until he was 15 years old. And then he insisted on studying painting. The older sister's husband gave him oil paints and canvases. Vanya tried to paint in oils for the first time. His delight knew no bounds! Once, a friend of their family, Ivan Osin, painted a portrait of young Vanya Shishkin. Vanya sat down in a chair and froze motionless. - Yes, smile, why are you sitting there like you swallowed an arshin? - It’s hard for you to draw if I’m moving! - No, dear, it’s difficult to draw a tense, numb person. Here you are drawing trees, every leaf, every needle is moving. Right? - Yes! - So you make me happy, just as your pine trees and rowan trees make you happy! - Guys, why did he ask so? (children's answers).To convey character. When Shishkin turned 20, he went to Moscow to enroll in a painting school, with the firm intention of becoming a real artist. Ivan fell in love with Moscow while he was studying, but he wanted to study further. After graduating from college, he goes to St. Petersburg to the Academy of Arts. But before studying, he stops by in his native Yelabuga on a date with his family, with his beloved pine forest, which he will write all his life. (Display of the painting “Pines illuminated by the sun”) This is how he said: “Is there somewhere else such a solemn silence, such a special, shaded, greenish light, where the rays of the sun wander along the pink-orange trunks, where a woodpecker knocks and smells of pine " Lesson 2 I.I. Shishkin said that “you need to paint nature in its usual state - in majestic peace, in its quiet charm, quiet charm.” Here it is - quiet charm, quiet charm. (Display of the painting “Rain in an Oak Forest”) (turn on the recording “Sounds of Rain”) - What feeling does this painting give you? Why? (children's answers) - Pay attention to the color scheme. What colors did the artist use to convey a rainy day? (children's answers) - Let's imagine that we are in a picture. Tell us what you see, hear, what smells you smell? (children's answers) So we walked through the wet forest, breathed in the freshness, and now listen to my story further. Shishkin wrote home from St. Petersburg: “The professors at the Academy wanted to test me how I draw nature from life, and asked me to draw whatever it was, knowing that at the beginning of spring nature was still very poor and would therefore make it difficult for me, but I overcame the difficulties and presented their drawings were such that they unanimously exclaimed: “Well done, Muscovite!” Shishkin successfully studies and receives silver and gold medals for his paintings. He has many friends who love him, a man with a kind and calm character. His parents are proud of him. He became a famous artist, whose dream is to work so that people need his art. Shishkin became very friendly with the young 16-year-old artist Fyodor Vasiliev. He admired its landscapes. (Display of F. Vasiliev’s painting “Wet Meadow”) - What motifs do you like, Fedya? - To me - simple ones. And you? “Me too,” answered Shishkin. Fyodor had a sister, Zhenya, with whom Shishkin fell in love. They got married and had two sons and a daughter one after the other. Shishkin is happy and works hard. But trouble awaits him. Close and beloved people die. First the father, then his wife’s brother Fyodor, his sons and his beloved wife die from the disease. He was left with a foolish daughter and a friend - a palette. During times of trouble, Shishkin painted his famous painting “Rye”. (Display of the painting “Rye”) The picture is powerful and simple: a golden field of rye, a bend in the road, the wind shaking the ears, pine trees as if guarding the rye.

And the road spreads out, And the thick rye rustles, And wherever you don’t want to go, You’ll definitely get there.

- Walk along this road, tell me what you see, hear, feel? (children's answers) - What is the main thing in this picture? (rye) - How did the artist show it? (the field is endless, sunny-golden, abundant and powerful, the abundance of bread is wealth created by people, their labor) Shishkin’s consolation in this difficult time was his daughter Lidochka. Lyulya, that’s what he affectionately called her. She sits on his lap, running her hands through her father’s curls. - And you have white rings on your head. - This is gray hair, because I’m old. - No, you are young and beautiful, like that oak tree over there. Call him Vanechka. (Display of the painting “Among the Flat Plain”) Look at this painting.

Among the flat plain On a smooth height A tall oak blossoms and grows In mighty beauty...

The artist's soul connected with this song. He called his painting “Among the Flat Plain...” An overgrown field, a long untrodden country road. To the right stands a mighty oak tree, spreading curly, dense branches in all directions. The artist looks at the lonely tree a little below, because it is at a “smooth height”, on a hill. The sun shines at the foot of the oak tree. Summer twilight, the sky near the horizon thickens and turns blue. — What kind of music do you think would suit this picture? (children's answers) - What colors did the artist use to convey his feelings? (children’s answers) How did the artist’s life develop further? Shishkin is recruiting students. Among them is the young artist Olga Lagoda. Her daughter Lyulya nicknamed her “pine tree” Olga for her slimness and became friends with her. Shishkin also fell in love with her. They got married and their daughter Ksenia was born, but a month later disaster struck - the young wife died. Shishkin is in terrible grief. Life goes on, daughters grow up. Ksenia is going to become an artist. He goes to sketches with his father. Until his old age, Shishkin did not write snow or winter. After all, he always painted from life and he could not stand for 10 hours in a winter forest, as he stood in the warm season. I began to depict snow in my old age, when I realized that I could write while looking out the window. (Display of the painting “In the Wild North”) - Admire the painting “In the Wild North.” What picture does it echo? Why? (children's answers). “In the middle of a flat plain...” The picture exudes silence, peace, loneliness, this is a majestic dream of winter nature. — What color is the snow? Why? (children's answers) - How do you feel looking at this picture? (children's answers)

On March 8, 1898, Shishkin passed away. He was 65 years old. He died at work, painting in his studio. But his paintings remained... (Show the last slide, on which there are several reproductions of paintings by I.I. Shishkin)

Result of the lesson: the artist painted 600 paintings and with each painting he said: “How amazingly beautiful and rich nature is! Love her!

(1832 – 1898)

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898) Shishkin is a folk artist. All his life he studied Russian, mainly northern forests, Russian trees, Russian thickets, Russian wilderness. This is his kingdom, and here he has no rivals, he is the only one. V. V. Stasov

In the treasury of Russian art, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin has one of the most honorable places. The history of the Russian landscape of the second half of the 19th century is associated with his name. The works of the outstanding master, the best of which have become classics of national painting, have gained enormous popularity.

Among the masters of the older generation, I. I. Shishkin represented with his art an exceptional phenomenon, which was not known in the field of landscape painting in previous eras. Like many Russian artists, he naturally possessed enormous natural talent. No one before Shishkin, with such stunning openness and such disarming intimacy, told the viewer about his love for his native land, for the discreet charm of northern nature.

Morning in a Pine Forest Among all the artist’s works, the painting “Morning in a Pine Forest” is the most widely known. The entertaining genre motif introduced into the picture greatly contributed to its popularity, but the true value of the work was the beautifully expressed state of nature. This is not just a dense pine forest, but a morning in the forest with its fog that has not yet dissipated, with the lightly pinked tops of huge pines, and cold shadows in the thickets. You can feel the depth of the ravine, the wilderness. The presence of a bear family located on the edge of this ravine gives the viewer a feeling of remoteness and deafness of the wild forest.

“In the midst of a flat valley...”

The painting “Among the Flat Valley...” was created based on the poem of the same name by Alexei Merzlyakov. In it, the departure towards romanticism seems unusual, but solemn and monumental. The landscape was clearly composed, and not reproduced, as is usually the case with the artist. A lonely growing oak tree is rather a symbol. The plain is, as it were, international. It reveals both Russian spaces and, probably, European ones. It is enough to compare a powerful lonely tree with oak trees painted by the artist abroad (Oak), with Russian oak trees (Oaks, Oak Grove, both - 1887) to understand that long-standing Swiss impressions were taken as a model. The vast panorama in the painting is viewed from a slight elevation. The visual monotony of the flat plane is broken up by compositional techniques. The close-up with lushly painted wild grasses and flowers gives the image physical credibility and the material sensation of the breath of real nature. The middle ground, where a powerful oak tree, the king of nature, rises, is partially illuminated by the sun. Alternating illuminated and shaded stripes of the plain create a dynamic impression of a play of light, breaking the monotony of the plane. Words that have long become popular, songs by composer Stepan Davydov based on poems by A.F. Merzlyakov “Among the Flat Valley”

Among the flat valley, At a smooth height, A tall oak blossoms and grows In mighty beauty.

A tall spreading oak, One in everyone's eyes; Alone, alone, poor thing, Like a recruit on the clock! Will the red sun rise - Who will you take into the shade? Will the weather strike - Who will protect?

Ah, it’s boring for a lonely tree to grow! Oh, it’s bitter, bitter for a young man to lead his life without a sweetheart!

Rye It was a special, quiet, fine day. The field of ripening grain stretched majestically and spaciously, and among this ocean of golden rye, like guardians of Russian wealth, giant pine trees stood, raising their proud peaks to the very sky. An incredible silence reigns in the landscape. It seems that you can hear every blade of grass breathing. The even, unhurried breath of the field reaches the ear. Only the chirping of small birds - swallows, piercingly cutting the air above the ground - disturbs the peace. Huge cumulus clouds crowd in the bluish haze near the horizon. Soars. And, despite the fact that the breeze does not sway a single spikelet, not a single twig of the pine trees, the soul senses that there is a thunderstorm... An unclear state of anxiety is intensified by the burnt lonely skeleton of a tree, sticking out absurdly and wildly among this enchanting grace. Maybe a lightning strike burned the pine tree? It looms strangely and sadly, reminding the viewer of the accidents, adversities, and troubles of the author of the painting. This landscape is not so idyllically calm. A serious, almost minor note of a complex, difficult life, not always clear and comprehensible, can be heard in the picture. It is revealed and supported by the theme of a road buried in rye, along which two travelers are wandering, and birds are circling above them high, high in the blue zenith. The art of Ivan Shishkin requires a long, careful, thoughtful examination. Only then will the inner, poetic, far from simple key of the picture become clear. The master’s painting invites one to comprehend the hundreds of details that the artist offers the viewer. And only then will you see the bottomless depth of Shishkin’s “simplicity and naivety”. Corollas of wildflowers will reach out to you, you will hear the smell of road dust, and suddenly the road will lead you into the very thick of the field - there, into the fragrant kingdom of bread. Then that melodic quiet ringing that is emitted by myriads of bees and bumblebees will become available, you will feel the charm of the middle zone to the very depths of your heart. Shishkin's contemporaries, who had seen plenty of romantics, reproached Ivan Ivanovich for being prosaic. This is a deep misconception... After all, poetry comes in different forms. Looking at his “Rye”, you hear the lines of Nikitin, Koltsov, Nekrasov, Fet... Huge clouds slowly rise from the vast distances. (story by I. Dolgopolov)

Rain in the oak forest

A unique moment: in the damp air of the forest, through a bluish transparent swirling veil, a ray of sunlight breaks through, as if it is rapidly pushing aside branches and leaves, breaking into a thousand reflections in puddles, suddenly painting the trunks of trees with bronze. As if enchanted, the artist saw the inexpressible beauty of the world around him. He forgot about himself, about his troubles. He dreamed…

Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow In the summer of 1869, Shishkin worked on several paintings, preparing for an academic exhibition, and returned to the theme of the sketch “Noon. Neighborhoods of Moscow. Bratsevo" (1866). Shishkin creates the painting “Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow." - endless space and air filled with peace. The picture captivated the audience. In September-October 1869 it was exhibited at an academic exhibition and, apparently, was not acquired. Therefore, Pavel Tretyakov, in a letter to the artist, asked him to leave the painting behind him. Shishkin gratefully agreed to give it to the collection for 300 rubles - the amount offered by Tretyakov. (this is the first painting by Shishkin acquired by P. M. Tretyakov for his gallery)

“In the wild north” “In the wild north it stands alone...” (M.Yu. Lermontov) In the wild north it stands alone On the bare top of a pine tree, And it sleeps, swaying, and with powdery snow She is dressed like a robe And she dreams of everything that in the distant desert, in the region where the sun rises, alone and sad on a flammable cliff, a beautiful palm tree grows.

Shishkin's painting was created based on Lermontov's poems and conveys the same feelings of both poets, but only by other means - the means of painting. Loneliness... On a rock, among the snow and darkness, a mighty pine tree stands alone. Despite severe frosts, winds and snows, it grows where nothing can grow. It seems there is no force that can topple it, break it, bend it.

A mighty, proud tree rises with dignity and heavy, sparkling snow, similar to a richly decorated priest’s robe, bends the lower branches almost to the ground. It seems that the pine tree is looking at the Moon. It illuminates a gloomy gorge, dark stormy vast distances, clouds, and silvers the snow on the pine tree and around. Snow is not pure white. The artist's skill showed many shades of snow. And on the top of the pine tree the snow is similar to clouds and they seem to be talking to each other. Complete frozen silence. It seems that the darkness is heavier than the light, it thickens and settles in the abyss. Only a lonely pine tree, a “dreamer,” dreams of another, bright and joyful world. Three masterpieces of art that have acquired global significance mutually enrich each other, expressing the dream of the sublime and beautiful, but through different means.

First snow 1875.

Despite the fact that lyrics were not Shishkin’s element, he paid tribute to it. Among Shishkin’s works there is one that researchers usually pass by. And it is very “Shishkin’s”, since the theme of the forest is clearly indicated in it, and at the same time it represents a certain exception, because it seems to have deposited a state that was not typical for the artist, close to the “dejection” of the works of Russian artists of the 1870s. This painting is called “First Snow” (1875). Everything about it is damp, wet, viscous and dreary. Everything is unusually accurate in sensation, even the involuntary touch of the depicted abysses, heavy, limp snow, emerging water that is not accepted by the earth, a gray, gloomy sky and uncertain light, introducing anxiety into the panorama of late autumn. It seems that Shishkin's realism has reached its apogee here. He does not exaggerate, does not emphasize, does not exaggerate. The mood is created by the most dull naturalness of the damp, dank forest. Naturalism rose to its heights here.

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