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

In the painting "The Boy", 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.

Fedor Pavlovich Reshetnikov

The future artist was born in a village in Ukraine in 1906 in a 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 and academician, he suddenly painted with enthusiasm children, being young with them. One of the paintings will be a 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 large city, late in the evening climbed onto the roof of the highest house in their district, to take a close look at the starry sky. They are eight or ten years old. And they, of course, everyone knows: about the flights of Squirrels and Arrowheads, about the first flight into space of a Soviet man and about the fact that our rockets with astronauts and satellites continue to explore the boundless 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-raised hand, which points to something, 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 Big Dipper in the sky and why it is 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.

Reshetnikov's "Boys", a description of which is given in this material, will also tell about the characters of the other two boys. Standing next to the left, the fair-haired boy is clearly younger (he is lower in height, 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 roof and half listening to the simple reasoning of his friend. He already has his own ideas about galactic travels in his mind, in which he may now already take part.

In the background

And for schoolchildren Reshetnikov ("Boys"), whose description of the painting continues, depicted the city 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's so nice to return to your homeland, to your beloved Earth.

On a warm summer evening, the description of F. Reshetnikov's picture "The Boy" ends, the boys make wishes, 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.