Consider Bruegel: The Harvest. Description of the painting “Harvest” by Plastov
School essay on the painting Harvest by Plastov, grade 6
The artistic canvas “Harvest” was painted by Plastov in 1945, when our country had just celebrated the Great Victory. During the Great Patriotic War, everyone who did not go to the front had to work in the rear. And these were mostly old people, women and children. If in cities they worked in factories and various enterprises, then in rural areas they worked in the fields. It is this topic that the artist’s work is devoted to.
In the picture we see an endless wheat field where the harvest is underway. The main characters of the picture are a gray-haired elderly man and three children, the eldest of whom was barely twelve years old. They are presented in the foreground of the picture while they are having lunch. From early morning they must first mow and reap with sickles, and then gather and bind the ripened wheat into sheaves. This hard work fell on the shoulders of the older and younger generations, since after the war many did not return from the front. Most likely, those present are all from the same family, and the children are the grandchildren of this old man. Their father probably didn’t return from the war, or maybe he’s still in the hospital.
For lunch, the grandfather and the boys have the usual peasant food: porridge, which they scoop out of a small saucepan with wooden spoons. Behind the children there are cucumbers and bread on a towel. A blond guy in a white shirt and gray pants holds a clay jug from which he drinks water. The old man has rye bread in one hand, and in the other he has a spoon with which he eats porridge. He has a grown gray beard and tousled gray hair. The tanned skin on his face and hands indicates that he had to work a lot this summer under the scorching sun. An elderly man is dressed in a faded green work suit and trampled boots. An old brown coat is thrown over his shoulders. Apparently, so that the hot back does not blow while they are resting.
A girl of about ten is dressed in a dark blouse, a red skirt and a white scarf. Brown hair is braided into two braids. And her bangs, like the boys’ hair, were faded in the sun. The red-haired boy in the yellow shirt has grown a lot of hair over the summer. Probably, adults have to work from morning to evening, and they don’t have enough energy or time to get a haircut.
An obedient small dog silently watches their meal. He waits patiently to be treated to leftover food.
Behind the guys’ backs stands a stack of wheat. Three sickles are stuck into it, and a scythe and a rake are placed on the other edge. Each of those present performs a certain job that is within his power. Grandfather has to mow, and the guys cut off the ears of wheat with sickles, and then rake and tie them into sheaves.
In the background we see several stacks of wheat. People are trying to take them to the village in horse-drawn carts.
The picture makes a good impression. The golden wheat field and the rich harvest inspire hope that everything in this family, and in the whole country, will be fine. No one will remain hungry. And soon, perhaps, the father of these guys will return home.
Harvest
Plastov in his painting Harvest depicts an old man surrounded by young children who took a break from work to have a snack. Perhaps they are from the same family or simply from the same village and the children help an adult mow. The man in front of us is elderly, but he is clearly physically strong and wise with experience; the more active and playful figures of the children contrast against his background.
The artist divided the front part of the composition into two halves, with a haystack on one side and people on the other. As we found out earlier, an ear of wheat can refer to the symbolism of the cycle of nature, but the second half of the composition also speaks of this. We see not just the continuity of generations, but also the life cycle, which is embodied in specific people.
The old man will have outlived his usefulness, these children will come to replace him, they will also have children and will also sow and reap, cultivate the land and create, work and create, in order to finally fertilize the earth with themselves and sprout again. This is the eternal cycle, the continuous movement of existence.
In the painting, Plastov depicted a distant perspective, the landscape stretches as far as the eye can see and beyond. When you look, it seems that you can take in the entire planet with your gaze. By this, in my opinion, the artist emphasizes his idea.
On the one hand, we have before us the particularity of perpetual motion, which lies in ordinary people. On the other hand, there is the all-embracing nature of this movement, which extends limitlessly and there are many similar people, old people and children, all over the earth. Just as ears of corn in a haystack press against each other, so people press against each other, making up a whole.
When you look at such a picture, you feel a kind of light sadness. Melancholy from the limitations of human existence, however, and joy from realizing the greatness of this world.
In traditional culture, the symbol of the wheat ear has always been associated with the idea of eternal return, natural cycles and the timeless nature of the soul. Just as an ear of wheat falls into the ground to sprout and become something new, the entire flowing structure of the universe is built.
During the Soviet Union, people tried to stay away from religious faith and mysticism. However, awareness and understanding of the world is practically impossible to completely take away from a person, and people always comprehend the universe. Especially when it comes to creative people such as artists.
Option 2
“Harvest” is a painting by the famous Russian artist Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov. The author depicts a lunch of a simple peasant family in a field during the harvest.
Members of a peasant family sat next to a tall haystack. They've been working hard and it's time to eat and relax during their lunch break. The painting shows an old man, two boys and a girl. The old man has a long gray beard, shaggy, uncut gray hair, and rough peasant hands. Despite the fact that the summer days are warm, grandfather threw on a brown jacket and put on boots. The children are wearing lighter clothes: the boys are sitting in shirts and pants, and the girl is wearing a red dress, a jacket and covering her head with a scarf. One of the boys drinks from a clay jug, the rest of the children eat. The dog looks at the peasants with a pitying look, begging them for food for itself.
Next to the characters in the picture lie their working tools: rakes, sickles, scythes. The boys are working with sickles, and the girl, apparently, is working with a rake, raking the mown ears of wheat into piles. A gray-haired old man works with a scythe. All the characters in the picture do very hard work: the boys and girls have to work without straightening their backs, and the grandfather works hard with his scythe. Not far from the old man and children dining, there are other people who, like the main characters in the picture, are working in the fields. There are large sheaves in the field, ears of wheat and horses are visible.
The picture evokes a whole range of feelings in the viewer. On the one hand, she radiates kindness, warmth and care, as family members work together and work together. Little children help the old man at such an early age. However, on the other hand, the viewer feels very sorry for these people, because they have to do very hard work to feed themselves.
Plastov managed to convey the emotional component of the picture very clearly. The author depicts the difficult life of a typical village family, in which both “young and old” work. “Harvest” is a painting illustrating one of the hundreds of thousands of simple peasant families in Russia.
Description of the painting Harvest
When you look at this painting, you should remember the year in which it was painted. It's 1945! That is, the peaceful everyday scene shown to us takes place either in the still war year of 1944, or in the first post-war year of 1945. And the forty-fifth is conditionally peaceful: the surviving fathers and brothers have not yet returned, in August there will be a new massacre - the war in the Far East with imperialist Japan and new funerals will come to many families...
In the foreground, an old collective farmer with his grandson and two little granddaughters are having an afternoon snack in a rye or wheat field, sitting on the stubble near the sheaves. Simple rural food: porridge, which they carefully take with wooden spoons, bread, cucumbers and milk in a jug.
The old peasant makes a special impression. He is stocky and strong, despite his age. It is immediately clear that this man had to go through a lot, but the trials did not and will never break him.
The old man’s grandchildren look contrasting and at the same time harmonious. They are still very small, they should be playing and not working in the field, but life has forced them, like their grandfather, to raise and harvest the bread that the Motherland so needs and rightfully eat their simple food in the field.
This picture lingers near you, calls you to think and realize what trials befell the common people, both adults and children, in those days!
An essay on this topic is written in 6th grade.
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After the death of the famous artist Plastov, more than thousands of works remained, which he left to his descendants. But, unfortunately, in 1931 a tragedy occurred, and many of Arkady Alexandrovich’s paintings were lost in a fire, but this did not stop the artist, and he continued his work, creating new brilliant painting masterpieces. And if before this incident, which made him look at the artist’s world differently, Plastov described peasant Rus', but more superficially, then after the fire he begins to delve deeply into what he depicted. That is why all his paintings are about the life of peasants, completely ordinary people. But this life is already a thing of the past, and now there is no return to it. And now these interesting paintings from the past began to come to life on Plastov’s canvases.
One of Plastov’s paintings shows the rest of a family working all day in the field to reap the harvest. The canvas “Harvest” conveys the atmosphere of that day when everyone is busy with work. It is already clear in the Plastov picture that all the wheat in the fields has been cut down, so part of the work has already been done, but still the struggle for the harvest, for its safety, continues. On the canvas you can see that they have already managed to sweep the wheat into sheaves, and in some places there are even haystacks. Now the peasants have to take it all to the harvest so that the harvest does not go to waste. In the distance you can see carts drawn by horses, hurrying to the current. They had already loaded themselves with sheaves. And the same part of the wheat harvest, which has yet to be exported, is neatly stacked in heaps on the field and can be seen throughout the field.
But such work requires a lot of energy, so you need to have lunch. The artist depicts just such a time when poor people, peasants, decide to have a little lunch. Their lunch is not luxurious and very simple. In one cup there is food for both the girl and the grandfather. Most likely, the girl brought lunch to her grandfather. But he, realizing how meager a poor man’s lunch is and that children always want to eat, decided to offer his granddaughter food too. And she didn’t refuse. But not only the girl eats from the same bowl, but also the boys, who, most likely, helped the old man in the field and were also very hungry. Having had a little snack, one of the boys depicted in Plastov’s painting decides to drink milk. The milk will remain cool in the jug for a long time, which is why it will seem so life-giving to people who work in the fields at such a time.
Not far from the peasants having lunch sits a dog who calmly watches how the people are having lunch. He is also hungry, but has already been accustomed to the fact that his lunch will come after the hard workers have eaten, so he tries to remain calm and wait, but he is not very good at it. It is clear that the dog is very young, so from time to time he barks to remind those who are eating that he is also here and waiting for his share of the food.
To better depict the people and what class they belong to, the artist drew their clothes in detail. So, the old man is dressed in simple and simple clothes. He is wearing shoes, because walking on the field is dangerous: you can get your feet pinched. He has a gray beard and the same gray and thick hair, which is disheveled in different directions. He worked hard to earn something for his family, so he has no time to think about how he looks. But what attracts most on Plastov’s canvas are the peasant’s hands, large and worn out.
At the moment when the artist captured him, he simply holds a small piece of black bread, but treats it with care, because he knows how expensive it is to get. In the other hand of the old man is a wooden spoon, which in Rus' they usually always carried with them in the hope of eating somewhere. He is dressed in a shirt and blue pants. A girl sat opposite him, so you can see that her hair is long and carefully braided into two small braids. She covered her head, as was customary in those days, with a scarf. She is wearing a bright red skirt and socks. She also did not come to the field barefoot, but had boots on her feet.
The boys in the Plastov painting are dressed more simply. Both of them are wearing simple white and yellow canvas shirts, dark-colored trousers so that dust is not visible on them. Everywhere you look at the picture, everywhere around the central images there is a field of wheat. Everything is painted yellow, which matches the wheat and its remains. Therefore, people sat down to rest and have a snack under one of these sheaves, in order to somehow shelter from the scorching rays of the sun. They threw their tools nearby. The guys worked with sickles: first, bending down, they cut off the ears of grain right to the very root, and then, taking a rake, raked everything thoroughly so as not to miss a single ear of grain. By the way, no one works in the field like that anymore. And then this work was very hard. But the guys work with rakes and sickles, but the old man’s tool is different: he mows wheat. She stands leaning against a haystack.
Plastov’s painting perfectly shows a time that was quite recently, but which is gone forever. A bright and wonderful feeling arises in the soul when you look at the vastness of Russian fields and understand how beautiful the Russian land is.
Essay description of A. Plastov’s painting “Harvest” Arkady Plastov belongs to that remarkable galaxy of masters of the brush who left a deep mark on Russian art. His canvases are deeply folk, because they reflect the life of a common person with all its simple events. And all together they add up to a great chronicle of the country, difficult and heroic. “Peasant Rus'” is the main character of all his works. And this is not only people, but also nature. She is not just a background that helps reveal the plot, but a full participant in all events. Proof of this is the description of the painting “Harvest”
Harvest is the time of harvesting grain (the noun is formed from the verb to reap, that is, to cut off grain plants ready for harvesting) What time of year does the harvest take place? A stack is a pile of tightly packed hay or compressed grains in the open air, cylindrical in shape with a rounded top. A sheaf is a tied bunch of ears of some kind of cereal. Stubble (stubble) - a compressed field of wheat, the remains of the stalks of compressed cereals on the field (they are very prickly when you step on them with bare feet).
Harvest Plastova Tatyana Eichmann “Oh, God, give me another year” He sat down, sighing, by the haystack. In the rear, above the golden stubble, the roar of war cannot be heard. And the old man's hand stroked the boy's curls. He closed his eyes, from afar, to see his father, to tell him: “I endure for now, And you fight, my son, fight! We are tolerant with our grandson. Life in the village is not easy and not easy... Oh, God, I wish I had another year!” He began to cut the bread rug, “And then my grandson will grow up!” “I, grandfather, am not small even now, I can use a sickle and a hammer, I’m running ahead of you!” The Old Man drank from the jug with a painful sip, but was not happy about the milk, and handed the vessel to the Little Boy, because he was growing up. " Oh my God! Move away your trial! And forgive the sinful soul" "Well, what have you had a snack, friend, It's time to get up, work is waiting..." Round and round - round, round and round - round, Year after year, year after year... "Oh, God!" Grandfather, there is pain nearby... The war is raging on the fronts. The victorious battle is still far away... Grandfather knew that the country would win.
History of creation The canvas was written in 1945, a very important year for the country. The last months of the war, the passionate expectation of victory and the ongoing pain and bitterness from the fact that many died in its fields and would not return - these were the main moods of that time.
Characteristics of the canvas In the foreground of the picture we see a group of people. This is an old collective farmer and three children. They have lunch after finishing their hard peasant work. The man is already quite elderly, his beard is almost completely white, and his thick hair, scattered by the wind and fussy work, is completely intertwined with a web of gray hair.
Characteristics of the canvas The artist carefully painted his calloused, calloused hands, darkened from work. In one he holds a piece of black bread, in the other - a wooden spoon, with which he carefully slurps simple food from a reddish clay pot. The collective farmer threw an old, threadbare dark brown coat over his shoulders, revealing a blue canvas shirt underneath. On his feet are old broken shoes.
HARD-KNOWN, oh, oh. 1. Hardened; calloused Rough hands. A wounded man in crusty bandages. 2. Callous, rude. A calloused man. A hardened soul. 3. Retarded, obdurate. A hardened conservative, a bureaucrat. Bored habits.<Заскорузло, нареч. Заскорузлость, и; ж.
Characteristics of the canvas let’s pay attention to its other heroes. These are two boys and a girl, guys about 1012 years old. Maybe it's a grandfather with his grandchildren. The girl sitting closest to us is a girl. She tied a white chintz scarf around her head, from under which two pigtails touchingly emerge and descend onto her thin neck. Her forehead is covered by sun-bleached blonde bangs. A dark blouse, a red dress, stockings on her legs tucked under her and cherry-colored boots - that’s all the granddaughter’s simple outfit. She has a spoon in her hand. Leaning slightly towards the pot, she eats a thin peasant stew, which was a real delicacy during the war years.
Characteristics of the canvas Her brother is sitting behind her - a red-haired, curly boy. His head had not been touched by scissors for a long time - either there was no time, or maybe there was no one to put his head in order. And again I remember: it’s war, and you never know where the children’s mother is... The little boy is also focused on food, like his family. But the third of the children has fallen to the clay jug and is greedily drinking water or milk. He is wearing an untucked white shirt and dark pants. Apparently, he was very tired and thirsty, he didn’t even have time to eat! The fifth hero of the film is a common favorite, a funny dog. He gazes at the diners, impatiently waiting for his turn to come.
Background of the painting The painting “Harvest” by Plastov is a story about the dramatic battle for the harvest of those who during the war years remained in the rear and with all their might helped forge victory, providing the front and civilians with the most important thing - bread. That is why the old man in his old age, and the children who would be running to school, had to take up pitchforks and rakes, scythes and sickles, because their adult sons, fathers and brothers, and even mothers went to war - to defend the Motherland. So those who remain are plowing, sowing, mowing, working, exhausted. To the left of the diners is a large, freshly mowed stack, on which scythes, rakes and other agricultural implements are piled. In the background lies an endless field and equally huge haystacks. And above all this rises a gray, pre-storm sky. Apparently, because of the bad weather, the grandfather and grandchildren were in a hurry to harvest the harvest. That is why the painting is called “Harvest”. Warm golden tones give it a special flavor. The canvas exudes deep, sincere love for people and the Motherland.
Lexical work A. Plastov is an artist, painter, master, author. Painting - linen, canvas, work, reproduction Harvest - harvesting. When describing the picture, we will need adjectives - definitions. An old man is an elderly man, tired from work, a grandfather. The old man’s face is bearded, his beard is gray, which indicates his age. The hair on the head is tousled by the wind, tangled. The old man’s hands are worn out, strong, strong, calloused, calloused, darkened from work. The artist wanted to show us that this old man is a hard worker. The old man's clothes are a dark old brown coat, a blue shirt and old shoes. Children. Girl - white cotton scarf, light, red, scarlet, cherry, boots, boots Boys: A) red-haired, shaggy, uncut; B) white shirt, dark pants, black. Dog - looks intently, greedily, wants to eat Description of the background. Color spectrum. The color yellow predominates in the picture; we select synonyms: golden, bright yellow, sunny, straw. There are shades of brown: light brown, fawn
Probably not every person in his life could directly observe the harvesting of bread and how difficultly this delicious product ends up on our table. Plastov’s painting “Harvest”, as well as “Haymaking”, written in 1945, tell us about the everyday life of ordinary people, collective farmers, busy in the fields harvesting crops.
For these picturesque works about the summer harvest, Arkady Plastov was awarded the Stalin Prize, which at that time was simply an unattainable peak for a Soviet artist.
In the painting “Harvest,” the artist depicted a short rest, during which the family had dinner. The wheat harvest is cut and swept into large stacks. Some haystacks have already been loaded onto chaises, which are visible on the horizon. You can also see huge haystacks there, waiting their turn to go to the lectern.
The grandfather, who also went to the harvest along with his teenage grandchildren, of course, had not yet had time to compress so much. An elderly man’s strength is no longer what it was in his youth, and he also feels sorry for his grandchildren. It’s not easy for them, because their father has not yet returned from the front, and the entire burden of difficult peasant labor has fallen on the shoulders of such old people and teenagers. But in their hearts there lives the hope that everything will be fine, if only the father would return... “Then it would be easier for the mother,” the children think. For an incredibly long four years, the village that sent the men to the front provided the country and the front with food. And now the long-awaited Victory Day has come, but the soldiers’ journey home to their families is still so long. And not all of them will knock on the doors of their home, where people still continue to wait for them, no matter what.
Grandfather and grandchildren slowly eat simple peasant food, scooping thick porridge from a saucepan with painted wooden spoons. Cucumbers are laid out on a scarf. One of the boys drinks water from a clay jug, in which the water remains cool for a long time. A yard dog sits quietly nearby, ears raised, patiently waiting for a handout. The figure of a bearded, gray-haired old man is depicted very colorfully. While working, his hair became very disheveled. He holds a small piece of rye bread in his large, tired hands, and it is clear to the audience that he only occasionally takes a bite from it, trying to make sure there is enough food for the guys.
Although the children are wearing light clothing, the old man has a worn brown jacket draped over his shoulders. Perhaps he is not completely healthy and therefore is afraid of catching a cold and getting sick. Then it will be even more difficult for the family to manage the household.
Plastov depicts a field stretching from edge to edge, where almost all the wheat has already been harvested and only the stubble colors it yellow-green. Plastov always preferred to use colors and shades that most accurately characterized the theme and conveyed his attitude to the depicted event.
The tools of this peasant family are visible next to the hay. As you can see, the grandfather worked with a scythe, which he leaned against a haystack during the rest period, and the boys with sickles. A wooden rake is also visible in the picture. Perhaps the girl was raking up the ears of corn with them.
Currently, the painting “Harvest” is on display at the State Tretyakov Gallery, causing light sadness from contemplating the endless expanses of fields and the modest meal of peasants after wartime.
