VOITEKHOVSKAYA Inna Anatolevna
teacher of domestic and world artistic culture
State educational institution "Belitsky educational and pedagogical complex kindergarten-secondary school of Lida district"
Belarus
IMAGES OF ANIMALS IN ART
(first lesson of the topic)
The purpose of the lesson: formation in students of a general idea of the originality and embodiment of the theme of animals in different types of art.
Tasks:
- — create conditions for expanding students’ knowledge about the culture of primitive society;
- — to promote students’ knowledge of the animalistic genre of art;
- — to form an idea of the inextricable connection between man and animal;
- — to develop an understanding of the need to protect and study nature;
- — cultivate a love for animals, the ability to notice their habits;
Equipment and training materials:
- multimedia installation or computer;
- presentation “Images of animals in art”;
- videos;
- painting reproductions
During the classes
1. Organizational and psychological moment.Introduction to the topic of the lesson.
Teacher. Good afternoon. Now we will hear a very beautiful, in my opinion, melody that will sound in the background of the video.
Please listen and think about what we are going to talk about now.appears on the screenvideo intro for the program “In the Animal World”, music by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez)(slide 1).
Students. We will talk about the animal world; about animals; about the role of animals in human life.
Teacher. You are absolutely right.
2. Report the topic of the lesson. Updating knowledge
An image appears on the screen (slide 2).
Teacher . Topic of our lesson:The image of animals in art. (Plate with the name of the topic on the board) And the video that you watched is the intro for the program, which was called “In the Animal World.” The program talked about the life of animals, their habits. They always showed interesting stories about animals from different countries and continents. The wonderful music of Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez was used as the theme song for this program. She approached the plot of the program so organically that she became a single whole, an integral part of it. In history lessons you studied the development of society, the existence of primitive people. What can you tell us about them?
Students. People lived before our era. They hunted mammoths. They had cave paintings.
Teacher . Please remember on what topic the first cave paintings were made.
Students. Primitive people drew animals.
Teacher . Remember the images of what animals you saw on the rocks, like a letter from the ancient world?
Students. Mammoths, tigers, bulls, cats, dogs.
An image of cave painting appears on the screen (slide 3)
3. Study a new topic
An image appears on the screen (slide 4)
Teacher. ( the epigraph is read)
"
Man has two worlds:
The One who created us
Another one that we have been since forever
We create to the best of our ability."
N. Zabolotsky
Teacher . The image of an animal in art has a huge historical path. The origins of animal stories go back to ancient times. One day in September 1940, the Lascaux cave was accidentally discovered in France, which became even more famous than the Altamira cave in Spain.
An image appears on the screen (slide 5).
Four boys, playing, climbed into a hole that opened under the roots of a tree that had fallen after a storm. The painting of the Lascaux cave - depictions of bulls, wild horses, reindeer, bison, wild horses, bears and other animals - is the most perfect work of art that was created by man in the Paleolithic era. The works have been well preserved, allowing this multiplex cave to be transformed into a first-class museum of prehistoric art, called the “prehistoric Sistine Chapel.”
An image appears on the screen (slide 6).
Since ancient times, man has identified his life with images from the animal world. Animals are the source of life for humans. The meat of the animals was eaten, and the skins were used to make clothes, shoes and housing. We can say that man is inextricably linked with the animal world and depends on it. In the process of evolutionary development, humanity has mastered new forms of communication with the animal world: in a tamed animal, man has found a protector of his well-being and a devoted friend.
The theme of the rock paintings made by the hand of primitive man was images of animals.An image appears on the screen (slide 7).
They directly influenced a person’s feelings, evoked in his mind scenes of hunting and victory over animals, this gave birth to courage and valor in them.
In the process of evolutionary development, humanity has mastered new forms of communication with the animal world. Religion and religious rituals left their mark. The ancient world left us symbolic personifications of the unity of animal and man in the form of fantastic, mythical animals: the sphinx, the winged bull, the centaur, and the phoenix bird.
An image appears on the screen (slide 8,9)
In ancient Egypt, many animals were considered sacred. The Gods were depicted with animal heads. Some Gods were in the form of animals and birds: falcon, baboon, jackal. But at the same time, the culture of Egypt is primarily the monumental buildings of the pyramids and the burial of the pharaohs.
The cat symbolized wisdom and grace, the lion symbolized strength and rage. The animal becomes not only the source of a person’s material existence, but also a means of his spiritual development, the embodiment of beauty and perfection.
Many figurines of birds and animals made of clay, bronze, gold, bone, dating back to the millennium BC, have been preserved. e., and serving as objects of creativity of the Scythian tribes. In Ancient Egypt, animals were exalted on a par with the pharaohs and were considered gods. Their images, found in ancient temples and pyramids, are distinguished by their unsurpassed pomp and decorative forms. In Ancient Japan and China, masters of decorative art created whimsical compositions, one of the main motifs of which were images of animals.
During the Roman Empire, the animalistic genre lost its significance, since the main theme in art was man. In the Middle Ages, voluminous collections of such stories were compiled, called physiologists or bestiaries. Their characters, half-real, half-fairy-tale animals and birds, not only captured the imagination, but also served as allegories of human virtues and vices.”
Drawings of animals reappeared only in the Renaissance, in the works of famous masters - Rembrandt, Dürer, Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, etc. In the 17th century, the actual animalistic genre in art emerged in Holland. In the paintings of artists, domestic animals were depicted against a background of rural motifs. The founders of this genre were A. Cape and P. Potter. In the last century, excellent graphic artists V. Vatagin and A. Laptev worked in the animalistic genre, endowing the images of animals with certain human qualities, conveying the liveliness of birds, fish and animals with scientific observation.
When creating an image in animal art, the artist, in addition to conveying external forms, plasticity, proportions, expresses the character inherent in an animal or bird, reflects its individuality, emotional state, he writes a portrait of his character. Any observant person, encountering animals, treating them with kind attention to one degree or another, can easily notice the variety and complexity of experiences, the expressiveness of their feelings (joy, grief, resentment, anger, melancholy, devotion). Depending on the task, an animal artist can create any image of an animal - formidable, proud, tragic or heroic. Loving and studying nature, he does not copy nature, but tries to convey through visual means the surprisingly diverse and delightful inner world of the animal, its mood. The artist looks for and finds something unusual and special in it. Creating a truthful image of representatives of the fauna requires a close study of their life, appearance, behavior, body structure and character, an idea of the characteristics of the habitat that leaves its mark on the animals, endowing them with special qualities. Please tell me why or for what purpose did primitive man begin to draw in a cave?
Students. I wanted to leave the achievements of the hunt as a souvenir for someone; I wanted to decorate my home; it was boring; there was a lot of time between hunts.
Teacher. Any of your assumptions are valid. But of course there is one thing. . . The fact is that when a person works, he simply gets food. But art at any time was considered the highest human development. You and I can speculate as much as we like about what prompted primitive man to take up a coal and draw something like an animal. There is a very beautiful poem about this by Evgeny Vinokur
The caveman learned to draw.
Finding no reason in grace,
He began to knock out with a heavy stone
The figure of an angular bison.
Random step! Dangerous path!..
He finished, and for the first time since creation
A long tear from the eyes of animals
Wearily flowed from emotion.
And, attracted by the terrible secret of creativity,
He felt there was no going back,
When he uses his primitive fist
He wiped away a tear lightly and guiltily.
Shaggy, wild, skin behind,
A grimace tore his face!..
He was full of unearthly joy,
What is sweeter than honey and more satisfying than meat.
Now can you say what happened to primitive man after he began to draw?
Students. He became different; he began to develop; he stood out from the animal world, although he did not yet realize it.
Teacher. Well done boys. Now I suggest you do a physical exercise called St. John's. Animal movements are always graceful. You will do the movements of the animals that are sung about in the song. A video appears on the screen (slide 10) to the song " Zverobik" lyrics by A. Khait and A. Levenbuk, music. B. Savelyeva
4. Physical education session “Zverobika”.
Teacher. The image of the animal is closely connected with various legends and signs that came to us from folk art. In the era of primitive archaism, mythological stories about totem animals - the founders of human races - arose. When myths lost their former credibility, animals became heroes of fairy tales, fables and legends. Tell us, what kind of signs and legends do you know?
Students. There is a sign that if a black cat crosses the road, you will have bad luck. Proverbs: “You can’t pull a fish out of a pond without effort”, “Legs feed a wolf”, “Even the beast runs to the catcher”. The legend of the sacred cow.In India it is believed that every cow has something sacred. Despite the fact that many people in this country are starving, no Hindu thinks of slaughtering and eating a cow. The Indian religious book Mahabharata says that the cow, thanks to its purity granted to it by higher powers, has the ability to endow a person with happiness and protect him from the darkness of hell. Vedic texts say that the place where a cow is located has pure energy, so these animals are allowed to walk even on city roads.
Teacher. Thanks guys. You really know a lot about animals. Tell me, how many of you are interested in the horoscope? But the horoscope is based on the image of one or another animal. Attention to the screen.
An image appears on the screen (slide 11).
Teacher. We have an eastern horoscope by year. And a horoscope by month. And in each of them, a month or a year symbolizes some animal. It is believed that a person born under the sign of this animal has certain qualities. Let's say one of you was born in the year of the Rooster - he will have a fighting character, in the year of the Dog he will be a loyal, honest, reliable person; in the year of the Snake - cunning, knows how to find a way out of any situation, etc.
5. Practical part.
Teacher. Make a pencil sketch of the animal that is your patron according to your horoscope.
Teacher. And we continue our acquaintance with the animalistic genre. We will look at the painting “The Garden of Eden” by Jan Brueghel.
An image appears on the screen (slide 12).
What are your impressions of the picture? Why does the painting have this name? Is there fiction in the depiction of animals? What's realistic here? Why do you think the artist “mixed” truth with fiction?
Students. The artist wanted to show a picturesque corner of nature where everyone is friends; in which everyone is happy; beautiful tropical plot; very beautiful animals inhabit this place, maybe some are not found in the animal world. I liked the picture for its richness of calm green color. Mixing reality and fantasy creates a mystery that is fun to solve.
An image appears on the screen (slide 13).
Teacher. Jan Brueghel - famous Flemish artist. Born in Brussels. By origin from the great dynasty of Flemish painters, the Bruegels. Jan Brueghel painted a large number of paintings on mythological themes and allegories, for example, “The Four Elements and Five
feelings."
An image appears on the screen (slide 14).
In Paradise, exotic and common animals are mixed in this paradise garden, lavishly planted with lush plants and flowers. The artist's main goal was to create a mysterious imaginary landscape, so he stripped Adam and Eve of their role in the plot in order to emphasize their surroundings. The limited selection of flora and fauna may seem funny to the modern eye, but Bruegel managed to breathe a fairy-tale spirit into the forest clearing. The artist's depth of feeling and sensitivity to the natural environment helped develop the great tradition of Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century. His highly accomplished, polished style of painting floral still lifes, landscapes and paintings of paradise earned him the nickname Velvet.
Now we will briefly write down the main ideas of our lesson.
To write in a notebook:
Teacher. The image of the animal occupies a significant place in the fine arts. A separate genre is emerging. It is considered the most ancient and it is called -animalistic.It flourished in the 17th century in Holland, where the actual animalistic genre in art stood out. The founders of this genre were A. Cape and P. Potter.
Animalist - genre of fine art, the main characters are animals (from the French animale - animal).It was to him that primitive artists paid the most attention. In the ancient world, images of animals were symbolic. Animalism is associated not only with fine arts, but also with literature. Works of the animalistic genre call for protecting, loving and studying the animal world and nature.
Teacher. An animal artist must have a good visual memory. Why do you think?
Students. An animal artist must have a good visual memory, because an animal cannot be forced to pose. To draw every line when depicting animals.
Teacher. But before you draw from memory, you need to practice understanding and feeling the animal - work from life, know the anatomy of the animal you are depicting, make quick sketches and sketches. In them it is necessary to grasp and record movement as quickly as possible, so drawing, sketching and sketching animals requires special tension and composure.
An image appears on the screen (slide 15) depicting the paintings “Young Hare” by A. Durer, “Penguins” by V.A. Vatagin, “Head of a Deer” by D. Velazquez, “Chain Dog” by P. Potter).
Animals in the works of artists that we see on the screen are humanized, they are endowed with certain human traits and feelings characteristic of humans (arrogance, severity, significance, concentration, melancholy). This analogy between the facial features of people and the muzzles of animals between the habits of an animal and the movements and actions of a person in works of animal art makes the images of animals even more understandable, capacious and relatable.
The workbooks ask you to do your homework.
From the list provided, you need to select a characteristic for each picture, connect it with arrows and explain your choice. And one more task - watch the cartoon “Mitten”. We will discuss it in the next lesson.
Teacher. The animalistic genre is used not only in fine arts, but also in literature. We very often see in the images of animals specific human traits that are either praised or denounced by the author. Remember these works and images of animals.
A slide (16) is shown depicting fairy tales about the fox, bear and hare
Teacher. Let's remember Russian fairy tales: what kind of fox?
Students. Cunning, resourceful, arrogant;
Teacher. What hare?
Students. Cowardly, fearful, sluggish, offended;
Teacher. What kind of bear?
Students. Strict, but fair, good-natured, simple-minded, trusting;
A slide (17) is shown with an image for the fables of I.A. Krylova
Teacher. Krylov's fables. What kind of crow?
Students. Stupid, gullible, simple-minded.
Teacher. What kind of monkey?
Students. Boastful, fidgety, talkative, lively.
Teacher. What kind of bear?
Students. Clumsy, awkward.
Teacher . What kind of fox?
Students. Cunning, impudent, harmful.
Teacher. Wonderful drawings for Krylov’s fables were made by the Russian artist Valentin Serov. There is a trusting crow with cheese, a cunning fox, and an awkward quartet in which they play “The Naughty Monkey, the Donkey, the Goat and the clumsy Bear.” The artist gave the animal characters traits characteristic of people.
The great Soviet master Vasily Alekseevich Vatagin not only painted animals, but also carved their images from wood or carved them from stone. The artist wrote: “A person receives and takes away a lot of necessary things from an animal, but he rarely remembers and realizes that the animal is not just a piece of meat or physical strength, that in his hands is a living being, obediently enduring violence, deeply feeling suffering and at the same time reverently accepting every kind attitude towards him and responding to a person with a feeling of affection, deep devotion, a feeling of love...”
6. Summing up
Teacher . What new genre of fine art have we met?
Students. With an animalistic genre. It is the most ancient. We know of cave paintings of bulls and bison in caves. Tens of thousands of years ago, man painted the beauty of the beast and imprinted it on the walls of his home. Works of the animalistic genre call for protecting, loving and learning to love the animal world and nature.
Teacher . In what genres of art is it found?
Students. In painting, poetry, fables, stories, folk proverbs and sayings
7. Reflection
There are emoticons on the table. Choose the one that suits your mood, place it on our magic tree.
8. Lesson grades
Goodbye!
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Ministry of Culture of the Omsk Region
Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel
October 11 at 17.00 in the Vrubel building of the museum the opening of the exhibition “Beasts. Birds. Fish. The image of an animal in fine art."
The project takes place as part of the Year of Ecology in Russia. In the age of technological discoveries and the dominance of multimedia aesthetics, the exhibition draws attention to the beauty of living nature and the significance of animals for humans.
The exhibition presents works from the museum's collection - painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied and folk art. Some works will be shown to viewers for the first time.
The exhibition tells how man's attitude towards the animal world changed in different periods of history, and how this was reflected in works of art. From a protective totem to cute pets - this is how this path can be briefly described. This topic is revealed through examples of primitive creativity and folk crafts, in the works of European and Russian artists of the 17th-21st centuries.
The exhibition includes four thematic blocks - “Animal Trail”, “Fairy Tale and True Story”, “Animal Art of the Master”, “Notes about Animals”.
The “Animal Trail” section is dedicated to primitive creativity and presents works by both ancient artists and modern masters who are trying to get closer to the interpretation of the image of the beast by our ancestors. Shown here are archaeological monuments of the Omsk Irtysh region made of clay, bone, metal, drawings of petroglyphs discovered on the territory of Khakassia on mica, as well as works of modern Omsk painters who turned to the aesthetics of the ancient world.
Echoes of legends and beliefs, the amazing imagination of masters of folk crafts are reflected in the section “Fairy tales and true stories”. Visitors will be able to see Dymkovo, Filimonov, Abashev toys, embroidered towels, as well as carved animals by the original 20th-century Omsk master Dmitry Herzen.
The section “Animal Art of the Master” talks about the birth of the animalistic genre in the 17th century and the peculiarities of the depiction of animals and birds by Russian and European artists of the 18th-19th centuries. In the exhibition you can see a painting by one of the first Dutch animal painters Melchior Hondekoeter “Bird Court”, magnificent naturalistic engravings by European masters, a rare “land” landscape by Ivan Aivazovsky “Sheep”. Particularly highlighted are the works of the ippic genre, glorifying the beauty, strength and grace of horses. Images of these amazing animals at the exhibition are displayed in engravings and paintings, as well as in the sculpture “Mare with Foal” by Pyotr Klodt, whose youth was spent in Omsk.
The largest section - “Notes on Animals” - introduces the graphic and sculptural heritage of masters of the 20th-21st centuries. Here are presented animals and birds “for every taste” - swift, predatory, free, humanized, fabulous, graceful, wild, domestic, funny, touching. Among the authors are famous names - Valentin Serov, Vasily Vatagin, Nikita Charushin, Yuri Vasnetsov, Evgeny Rachev, Andrey Marts - and Omsk artists Nikolai Tretyakov, Ivan Zheliostov, Igor Levchenko. The small sculptures - porcelain figurines of animals created by Soviet and modern masters - will not leave viewers indifferent.
Interactive objects will be created in the exhibition space for children and their parents. In order for the children to understand what relief is, a “deer stone” will appear in the “Animal Trace” section, imitating Altai petroglyphs with images of animals. You can study it and even touch it with your hands.
Anyone, adult or child, will be able to climb into a huge cozy bird's nest made of soft materials and fabric. Here you can relax and read a book about animals.
For active people there will be a creative zone - tables with coloring of animal figures.
Curator - Olga Sergeevna Gaiduk
The exhibition is open at the address: st. Lenina, 3, Vrubelevsky building
A new exhibition at the Sergei Andriyaka School of Watercolor presents paintings, graphics (including books), sculptures, examples of decorative and applied art with subjects on the theme of living nature
Watercolor school of Sergei Andriyaka, November 30, 2012 - February 2, 2013
Moscow, Gorokhovsky lane, 17
Today, the exhibition “Animals in Fine Arts” opens at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Sergei Andriyaka School of Watercolor. The exhibition includes paintings, graphics, sculpture, examples of decorative and applied art with scenes on the theme of wildlife; book illustration, where the main characters of the works are animals, birds, insects and underwater inhabitants, created by artists of the 18th - 21st centuries.
The fauna of our planet is so large and diverse that it is simply impossible to tell about all the masters of this genre from its origins to the present day in one exhibition. And since it is deployed within the walls of an educational institution - the Sergei Andriyaka School of Watercolors, the authors of the project reveal this topic in the form of answers to the questions: “Why today, in the age of digital technology and the Internet, should you be able to draw animals? Where did the masters of the past find inspiration, who were their teachers? In what area of creative activity can modern artists who paint animals and birds apply their knowledge and skills?”
Thanks to this educational and methodological approach, visitors have a unique opportunity to see animals through the eyes of animal painters of different eras and “specialties”: painters - masters of the genre, leading teaching activities; graphic artists - designers of children's books and masters of scientific illustration and animated films; sculptors whose works are in the collections of the Museum of Ceramics; artists who paint wild animals and birds in their natural environment. While viewing the exhibition, an attentive visitor will highlight several themes in the exhibition: “portraits of animals”, “master and student”, “mother and child”, “children not in cages”, “an excursion into the history of animal art”, etc. The only thing that was deliberately abandoned authors, this is from scenes of hunting, violence and death.
You will see a cautious tiger hiding in the reeds; a young foal touchingly clinging to his mother’s neck; looking straight into your soul with the huge eyes of a long-eared dog... One of the “pearls” of the exhibition was the canvas “Parrots”, painted in 1766 by a German painter I. F. Groot, whom art historians consider one of the founders of animal painting in Russia. The work came to the exhibition from the funds of the State Tretyakov Gallery. You will also see sheets from the album “The Image of an Animal in Art” by the famous animal sculptor V. A. Vatagina, ancient atlases with portraits of mysterious creatures created by the imagination of medieval artists; admire the chess pieces, where one of the kings is made in the form of a lion, the king of animals, the other - a polar bear, the owner of the Arctic; learn how and what to draw underwater; You will see a magnificent ornament where images of fish, crabs, shells and aquatic plants are intricately intertwined. And illustrations for children's books about animals and working materials for cartoons will lift your spirits and help you explain to your child the difference between an animal artist and an animator.
A significant part of the exhibits that came to the exhibition from the collections of both art and natural science museums in Moscow are presented to the general public for the first time. During the exhibition, it is planned to conduct trial lessons in watercolor painting, round tables, excursions and meetings with artists.
Source: press release from the School of Watercolor by Sergei Andriyaka
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And minimalism is a genre in fine art dedicated to our smaller brothers. The heroes of the works of animal artists are animals and birds (animal - from Latin “animal”). Love for life and nature, perception of oneself as a part of the living world - this is what drives the brush of creators, bowing their heads before the creatures to which man is greatly indebted.
History of animalism in painting
Animal painters in their works try to maintain the accuracy of the image of the animal and at the same time add artistic expressiveness to the image. Often the beast is endowed with human traits, actions and emotions. The origins of this type of art lie in the primitive world, when in rock paintings ancient people tried to convey the anatomy of the animal, its beauty and danger to humans.
From the origins of antiquity
Sculptural monuments of animals and animalistic ceramics are an integral part of the history of Ancient Africa, America and the East. In Egypt, gods were often depicted with the heads of birds and animals. Ancient Greek vases also contain decorative images of animals. Animal art was equally developed in all countries.
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages added an allegorical and fabulous quality to images of animals. The favorite characters of the masters of that time were dogs. True friends surrounded a person in everyday life, on a walk, or while hunting. The famous Venetian painter of the 16th century, Veronese, introduces the image of a dog into religious subjects - animals follow the Savior’s foot.
Renaissance
Renaissance masters tried to paint animals from life, which was quite difficult. You can’t force any animal to freeze and pose. In the 17th-18th centuries, animal painting developed rapidly in the Netherlands, France and Russia. Images of animals can be found in paintings Rembrandt, Rubens And Leonardo da Vinci. In Russian creativity, Serov gave special meaning to images of animals - his illustrations to Krylov’s fables convey the ideas of instructive texts with inimitable liveliness and satire.
On the threshold of the millennium
The 19th-20th centuries moved animal painters a little away from romanticism and sublimity in creating images of animals. Realism becomes a characteristic feature of the era. Painters try to accurately convey the anatomy of the animal. Color, pose, habits - everything is so photographic in the paintings that it is sometimes difficult to see the trace of the artist’s brush. Later, hyperrealism became widespread in animal painting, when small details are brought to the fore at the will of the master who wants to emphasize one of the qualities of the animal.
Famous paintings and artists of the animal genre. Creators of the East
One of the first representatives of animal painting in painting was the Chinese artist Yi Yuanji, who worked at the beginning of the 11th century. He became famous for his unique images of monkeys in scenes imbued with the style of the East. Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty continued his ideas. Drawing monkeys and dogs was his favorite pastime.
Painters from Europe and the world
Famous German Albrecht Durer, who worked during the Renaissance, left numerous watercolors and lithographs that quite realistically convey images of animals ( "Lion", "Rabbit", "Stork" and others).
The Fleming Frans Snyders (XVI-XVII centuries) is considered a truly outstanding animal painter. His still lifes with hunting trophies are real masterpieces that adorn numerous galleries and exhibition halls in Europe. Some of the artist’s most popular paintings are “Deer Hunting” and “Fox and Cat”.
Animal painting was not a popular genre of painting at that time, but the bourgeois liked to order paintings with images of horses and other domestic animals. Portraits of people in the Baroque style often included images of birds and animals.
It is also impossible not to remember one of the strongest animal artists of the 20th century - Canadian Robert Bateman. His bison, elephants, lions, deer and leopards look at the viewer from the window of wildlife, slightly open on the master’s canvas.
Russian artists
Russia has revealed many great animal painters to the world. Vasily Vatagin devoted his life to studying the habits and plasticity of animals. His works in graphics, watercolor and pencil are so piercing that you feel the breath and gaze of the animal on you. Excellent examples of works in the animalistic genre of Serov - "Horse Bathing" And "Oxen".
Another unsurpassed master of Russian animal painting is Konstantin Savitsky. It was his famous bears that ended up in Shishkin’s painting “Morning in a Pine Forest.” Evgeny Charushin, Konstantin Flerov, Andrey Marts are representatives of the Soviet period in the development of the direction.
Animal painting in the modern world is very close to the art of photography. Fine craftsmanship and great love for living beings are required to create such masterpieces. Artists seem to be knocking on the human heart with a request: “Take care of this natural world, it is leaving us.”
