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Forest in winter, Shishkin, 1884

Description of the picture:

   The winter forest in the picture of I. Shishkin is special, sleeping. Life seemed to stop in it: the river was almost completely frozen, the trees froze, sprinkled with snow. The color scheme is simple: black, white, brown. A well-chosen basis (brown paper) perfectly conveys the colors and mood of a cloudy winter evening. The lifelessness of the landscape is violated only by small thaw areas in the ice carpet of the rivulet, reflecting the winter forest. Thawed patches seem to give hope for an early spring, for awakening from hibernation. Snow-covered trees, reflected in the emerging water, as if preparing for the onset of a new stage of life, for awakening.

   Compositionally, the landscape is divided by the river into two equal parts. The river connects the two halves of the forest, as if it keeps the surrounding nature on the verge of life and death, does not let it fall asleep too tightly."

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