Autumn Zinaida Serebryakova (1884-1967)

Description of Zinaida Serebryakova’s Autumn

The most beautiful time on earth is autumn. The most fruitful, but also the most depressing and sad. It’s all from the fact that it’s constantly raining from the sky, and there’s mud on the ground, the most, that impenetrable mud and huge puddles in which the rainy sky is reflected. But everything is beautiful in nature.

There are days in fall when it’s still warm and everything around is covered with gold - yellow leaves, yellow sunflowers, grass is yellowed, fields also covered with yellow - this is autumn harvest of wheat, which must be harvested till the first frost. And if you add yellow roofs of the huts, it’s like being in a golden land.

Serebryakova’s canvas has it all-all yellow, all autumnal, all beautiful. Autumn in Ukraine is really the most beautiful weather. It is warm, but cloudy, and if it rains, it won’t last long. This is all preparation for winter. But for those who live in villages and rural areas autumn is the shortest time to prepare for winter.

To collect harvest, to make hay, to prepare for the next spring plantings, to look after cattle and to prepare for them more hay so to sit in the winter time by warm oven and to remember the summer or just wait for the spring. Just the artist has exactly the mood of the picture - sad and lyrical. And of course you can see the indestructible love for the native land, native places and where we once spent our childhood. And how not to believe such words, that the homeland is a great home for each person. And no matter where a person is, he always wants to be in his homeland, to talk with his ancestors, to bow to their ancestors in the cemetery and help the living with the household.

And also autumn is a time of creativity. After all, it was in the fall that Pushkin composed his most brilliant poems, and it was in the fall that Gogol wrote his "Evenings..."