Reshetnikov's painting "Boys". Description of young dreamers

In the painting "The Boy" by F.P. Reshetnikov continues to create a gallery of images of Soviet children, which the master began to write in the postwar years. An outstanding realist for his work in different years was awarded orders and medals.

Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov

The future artist was born in a village in Ukraine in 1906year in the family of hereditary icon painters. He early orphaned and, when he grew up, began to help his elder brother, who, in order to survive, dropped out and continued his father's business. He became his apprentice, and later, seeing that it was impossible to find an interesting job without education, he left for Moscow and there in 1929 he graduated from the factory department. Then there was a study for higher art education. His teachers were DS Moor and SV Gerasimov. While still a student, a schedule for education, scoffer and romantic, he took part in several polar expeditions, followed by all Soviet people with a sinking heart. After all, he was with the Chelyuskinites on a drifting ice floe. And although his vocation was a cartoon and satire, the artist willingly engaged in easel painting.

By 1953, having already become a recognized master andacademician, he suddenly draws children with enthusiasm, becoming younger with them. One of the paintings will be the picture of Reshetnikov's "The Boy", a description of which will be given in the next section.

The plot of the picture

Arranging in the afternoon, three boys living in a big city, climbed the roof of the highest house in their district late in the evening to look closer at the starry sky.

They are eight or ten years old. And they, of course, everyone knows about the flight of Belka and Strelka, about the first space flight of Soviet man and the fact that our rocket with astronauts and satellites continue to explore the vast space. This is the picture of Reshetnikov's The Boys, a description of which has already begun.

Close-up

In the foreground are three boys with different characters. Look at their faces and poses.

In the center with a high arm raised, which issomething points out, there is a connoisseur who clearly reads the lecture. He, of course, already visited the planetarium, revised atlases of the starry sky and knows all the constellations of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Now he, maybe, shows where to find the Polar Star, in which constellation it is, or tells how to find the Great Bear in the sky and why it is so called, or shows Orion - the most beautiful constellation - the butterfly of our latitudes. Or maybe he points to a flying satellite. There is much to see in the sky.

The picture of Reshetnikov "The Boy", the description of whichis given in this material, will tell about the characters of the other two boys. Standing next to the left, the fair-haired boy is clearly younger (he is less tall, and his expression is more naive), and he absorbs with interest the knowledge unknown to him. Reshetnikov's "The Boys", the description of which continues, very clearly outlined the character of the younger boy, curious, but not yet able to independently find new knowledge. And the most interesting and mysterious character is a dreamer. He is depicted comfortably leaning on the ledge of the roof and half listening to the simple reasoning of his friend. He already has his own ideas about galactic travel, in which he now, perhaps, already takes part.

In the background

And for schoolchildren Reshetnikov ("Boys"),the description of the painting which continues, depicted the urban landscape. He is unusually good. High houses with gleaming gold of warm home comfort windows swim in the haze and become part of the vast Cosmos. Only his native name is Earth, which attracts every real cosmonaut. After the wanderings it is so nice to return to your homeland, to your beloved Earth.

A warm summer evening description of the painting F. Reshetnikova "Boys" ends, the boys make a wish, looking at the falling stars. All three of them are striving for the future, which will reveal to them many secrets. Time will pass and, perhaps, they will change their dreams, but the urge to develop a new, unexplored, will remain.