Selon Henk Van Os, "In it are seen laborers returning home through the fields of rye at the close of day. In the distance we see houses, a country church and a winding river ... .The painting is an awesome experience of the Liberating effect of space. "The painting dates from 1869 soon after-the group of painters called Expired the Peredvizhniki (Itinerants gold Wanderers) Declared independence from the constrictions of the academies, and brought` Their work to the common people by means clustering of traveling exhibitions.
Few in Russia hAD painted landscape is Such a large scale before-and with Rarely Such deep feeling. The work Had a galvanizing effect on later generations of Russian landscape painters, Who Realized all at once the potential for landscape to be the vehicle for phrase providing the deepest stirrings of the human soul.
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0 pictures by Ivan Shishkin at The Athenaeum.org, link.
Essay by Henk Van Os in Appeared in the exhibition catalog Russian Landscape , (03), edited by David Jackson, link.
on Wikipedia Ivan Shishkin, link.
Illustrated essay, "The Immortal itinerants," link.
