Do not touch Let me go. 1887-1895 Vasily Vereshchagin (1842-1904)
Vasily Vereshchagin – Do not touch Let me go. 1887-1895
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Painter: Vasily Vereshchagin
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Patriotism has been and will always be in vogue among artists. If only because one can vividly express one’s relationship to one’s homeland. All Russian artists were quite loyal to Russia. Yes, there was a fashion to paint foreign landscapes. But rather quickly many artists returned to their native spaces. As for Vereshchagin, then there is a special conversation. For a long time he was considered a master of battle paintings, but still he was more of a documentary filmmaker.
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Description of Vasily Vereshchagin’s painting "Don’t Get It, Let Me Approach".
Patriotism has been and will always be in vogue among artists. If only because one can vividly express one’s relationship to one’s homeland. All Russian artists were quite loyal to Russia. Yes, there was a fashion to paint foreign landscapes. But rather quickly many artists returned to their native spaces.
As for Vereshchagin, then there is a special conversation. For a long time he was considered a master of battle paintings, but still he was more of a documentary filmmaker. This became especially evident after his series of Turkestan paintings. After all, for the Russian Empire, Turkestan was exotic. So he showed on his canvases the life of other people with their own laws, rules and traditions.
Vereshchagin’s special subject is war. Often he returns to this difficult topic. On this canvas, he depicted the people’s power, which was manifested in the Patriotic War of 1812. In the snow-covered forests of Central Russia partisan units of peasants were often organized. They acted no worse than a real army. And it was a "terrible dream" for Napoleon’s army, and much later for the Nazi invaders.
What is on the canvas? At first you can not immediately see the main characters. The snow-covered landscape in the foreground is to blame. Vereshchagin as if hiding the power of the people behind the force of nature. You can imagine that the guerrillas are standing in ambush, and very close passes the column of the enemy. But it is necessary to let close to them, and under the cover of the winter Russian forest, they are waiting for the right moment to launch an attack.
In fact the entire canvas is covered by a winter landscape, and only after a closer look can you find the figures of bearded men who are closely watching the French, and only when the older man gives the signal to attack - the fight will begin.
In this way, Vereshchagin praised the spirit of the Russian people, their strength, their power, and their manly cunning.
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The picture has something of this: nature, winter, tree, texture, snow, cold, outdoors, wood, frost, season, flora, closeup, design, wall, abstract.
Perhaps it’s a painting of a group of people standing in a forest with snow on the ground and trees in the foreground,.