Spring is big water Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900)

Description of Isaac Levitan’s painting "Spring. Great Water."

Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a Russian painter who is not without reason called a master of the landscape. Despite his difficult life and a difficult childhood with the early loss of his mother, Levitan did not stop seeing the beautiful around him and, moreover, learned to communicate his vision of beauty to those around him by painting.

The dream of the writer in his younger years was a trip to the Volga, which his beloved teacher Savrasov portrayed so hopefully. The first trip did not impress Levitan at all, which he did not fail to inform his friend Chekhov. But the next trip introduced the artist to a small town on the Volga River called Plyos. Isaac Ilyich stayed there for three summers and painted 200 pictures, which brought him fame and renown in wide circles. Like the artist, the town of Plyos became popular, and many landscape painters began to be interested in it.

"Spring. Big Water" is a painting by Levitan, which depicts the awakening of spring. The painting was painted in 1897, three years before the artist’s death. The canvas depicts the awakening of nature from its long winter hibernation, a sign of which, first of all, is flooding. The water has flooded the coastal area, but despite this, there is no sense that it is aggressive. On the contrary: the silence and smoothness of the water fascinates. The trees displayed in the water and the light sky covered with soft spring clouds are marvelous. Subtle shades of blue, yellow and green give the picture a special color. The most varied color is blue. In the picture it is represented in all shades: from dark blue to almost white.

"Spring. The Great Water" is considered one of the most lyrical paintings by Levitan. It is very beautiful and attractive. Charming moment of nature’s awakening after a long hibernation. This moment is associated with something new in everyone’s life, which is perhaps what fascinates the artist’s fans.