UNIT 5
Vladimirka
Introduction
- Russian landscape painter
- mood landscape
- social historical landscape
- unity of mankind and nature
Subject, theme
- symbolic image which conveys a realistic message
- reference to his own exile
Composition
- Vladimirka road – center of the composition
- background- forest, church
- on the left-wanderer, road icon
Light and shade
- prevailing of the shade over light-dramatic emotion
- no even a beam of a sun peeking from behind the clouds
Colour
- dark tones prevail
- different shades of brown
- “atmospheric colour”
- local colour
- special choice of colour - tragic loneliness and melancholy
Technique
- minimize a person’s presence on the natural background