Spring. Last snow: 1. 1895 Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900)

Description of Isaac Levitan’s painting "Spring. The Last Snow."

Isaac Levitan was a Russian painter of the nineteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, known for paintings that reflected the beauty and all the essence of Russian nature.

His paintings became a great success during his lifetime, which undoubtedly testifies to the tremendous talent of the painter, capable of expressing, with simple colors, that inexhaustible vitality of nature at any season, which even today few can capture, even with a photographic lens.

The painting "Spring. The last snow" painted by the artist in 1895, just 5 years before his death. The painting shows a small river, barely freed from the ice, but ready to pour their waters on the surrounding banks.

Spring has just begun, nature has not yet had time to wake up from its winter cold and hibernation, and only the river has thrown off its shackles. The snow-white snow is covered with gray patches and gradually disappearing, the trees stand bare, but already awakening.

The birches seen in the distance behind the forest are already ready to be covered with the first spring buds. The sun is shining, you can’t see its rays, but it’s easy enough to understand by the light that comes from the blue sky, and from the boiling river and even from the melting snow.

The skill of the artist allowed him to give, in general, a gloomy landscape the charm of early spring, which is visible only to a true lover of nature, because very soon, the river banks will be covered with grass, and the forest edge will drown in flowers, the first birds will fly in and the long-awaited warmth will come.

That moment anticipates the picture, and we want to see what will happen next, how will this wonderful transformation, for which with such care prepares us for the artist, whose brush so clearly painted every tree, every twig and bump. Bright, colorful and spiritual painting is ranked as one of the best examples of pictorial art in Russia and the world.