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Children in genre paintings Soviet artists May 14th, 2016

The images of children on the canvases of artists appeared rather late. Of course, earlier painters also tried to portray children, but they were more like miniature copies of adults, but it is rather difficult to convey childish immediacy, character traits, movements, and gestures. It took several centuries to learn how to paint children's portraits. Russian artists were especially successful in this. Children's images in their paintings are filled with amazing light, they are touching and tender.

I think that children are always a win-win topic for an artist. This was especially felt in the Soviet era. Whatever textbook you opened, you could find a reproduction of some artist on a given topic ... At the same time, the plots of the paintings were understood by the children's consciousness. Because it reflected life, our life, real life. Not some kind of comics ... However, see for yourself. I don't want to comment. Just watch.

They got the language. 1943. F. Reshetnikov

Didn't go fishing. K. Uspenskaya-Kologrivova

"Difficult transition" F. Sychkov

Troika (Children by the river). 1937-1946 years. A. Plastov

New Year. 1967 A.Gulyaev

Daughter of Soviet Kyrgyzstan. 1950 S. Chuikov

Arrived for vacation. 1948 F. Reshetnikov

For peace! 1950 F. Reshetnikov.

Again a deuce. 1951 F. Reshetnikov

Goalkeeper. 1949 S. Grigoriev

First of September. 1951 A. Volkov

Morning. 1954 T. Yablonskaya

Resit. 1954 F. Reshetnikov

Winter has come. Childhood. 1960 S. Tutunov

Children on the roof 1963 P. Radoman

Excellent study. G. Gavrilenko

Unsolved problem. 1969 V. Tsvetkov

Another five. 1954 E. Gundobin

IN THE USSR great importance given to education. Therefore, it is not surprising that there were many paintings by Soviet artists about schooling children.

Here is accidentally stumbled upon a long-forgotten song. Today, one listens somewhat naively and, as today's children say, "dumb" ... But that's how we were brought up in Soviet time. And not the most bad people obtained, in general.

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Agree that probably, if not all, then at least the majority of all parents on the planet want to grow creative, unique, highly cultured personalities out of their children. We are from the most early years we are trying to teach and instill in our children a love for theaters, galleries, exhibitions and much more. But not every kid experiences the joy of visiting such establishments. Something can scare him, something can be incomprehensible to him, and therefore boring ... In any case, I think that probably the main task of us parents is not to obsessively drag the baby around all the well-known institutions, but to instill a love for the arts, explain why this is necessary. Therefore, before taking a child, take the relevant literature, tell about the artists, show pictures, talk, and then take a very prepared child to the museum. Thus, when he seems there, everything will seem familiar to him, he will recognize the paintings that he looked at with you, remember the artists that you told him about at home, and this world will no longer be alien to him, but will be a part of something familiar and home.

I believe that the art of the baby can be introduced from a very young age, when he is 3 months old. His brain is so inquisitive and inquisitive at this time that he will consider with great pleasure everything that you show him. So why not show him pictures of some of the most famous artists.

Here I would like to write a few words about very good books that you can use to teach your children about art.

materials

In addition, here you can download paintings by famous artists for free:

Click on the images below to download and print:

here are collected paintings by some of the most famous artists

How to play?

The smallest kids can simply print and show cards, while naming the names of paintings and artists. With older children, you can play with developmental games, fine motor skills, mindfulness, memory and much more. The easiest option is to print two types of identical pictures, one of which is cut into cards and offer the child to lay out the cut cards with the main field with cards. This game is suitable for kids from 1.3-1.5 years old. Memory game - print out two kinds of identical cards and turn them over until you find a pair of identical ones.

Can post 4 different pictures, then ask the baby to close his eyes and hide one of them. When he opens his eyes, offer to guess which of the paintings has disappeared.

Related books

In addition, I advise everyone to download or buy a book by the famous French art critic, teacher in the History of Art at the Louvre School Francoise Barbe-Galle “How to talk to children about art?”.

This is a book written about art especially for parents who themselves love everything beautiful and strive to instill it in their kids.

Highly good book, which tells children about art, the publishing house Bely Gorod "The ABC of Russian Painting." It is an encyclopedia containing over 100 famous paintings Russian artists. With the help of it, the baby will get to know various directions and genres of Russian painting.

Here is what this wonderful book looks like:

Example page from inside the book:

And, of course, I also wanted to write a few words about the wonderful series of books by the Phoenix publishing house for the smallest kids about artists. The series is called "The Artists". This includes 4 life history books famous artists Degas, Monet, Gauguin and Van Gogh. The purpose of these books is to introduce our kids to a series of paintings by the most famous artists. In the books, the pictures are described in colors that are easy for children to understand, and there are also small fictional stories. The books are very colorful.

Not every artist dares to paint a children's portrait, the images of children on canvases appeared quite late. Of course, earlier painters also tried to depict children, but they looked more like miniature copies of adults, but it is rather difficult to convey childish immediacy, character traits, movements, and gestures.

It is very pleasant to look at such pictures, but it is difficult to draw kids, because it is very difficult to make a child pose for an artist for several hours. Nevertheless, famous artists succeeded perfectly, and we will talk about their paintings.

Pierre Auguste Renoir left a lot of legacy, among his paintings there are many images of children. Children peering at the pages of books or a child leaning against his mother's side - everything is depicted so truthfully and beautifully that it is simply impossible to resist.

It is impossible not to mention the artists who painted children's portraits. Western European masters it took several centuries to improve the spiritual sphere of a child's portrait, Russian artists achieved amazing results at an accelerated pace. Children's images in painting are filled with amazing light, they are touching and tender. Portrait of Stroganov by Jean Baptiste Greuze, Mika Morozov and Children painted by the Russian painter Serov, Boy's Head painted by Tropinin, Kharlamov "Girl's Head" and others.

Diego Velasquez is also very bright representative golden age of Spanish painting.

He is known, first of all, for portraits, including those of children, as well as genre compositions. As a court painter, he painted portraits of kings, their courtiers, as well as family members. The portraits of infantes deserve special attention in this section: the costumes of that era, the soft outlines of faces, still childishly angular, a wonderful combination of shades.

Remembering the paintings in which there are small children, let's turn to the image of the Madonna and Child. Of the most striking masterpieces, the painting by Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael stands out. The images created by the brush of these masters are familiar to the whole world.

Many foreign artists portrayed children, creating a special composition. It seems to be a child and the main actor, and at the same time is a participant in the ongoing action. A vivid example of this is the painting "Spoiled Child" by Jean Baptiste Greuze. In observers, she evokes the most conflicting emotions: both sympathy for the nanny and indignation towards the child. “A belt would be good for him,” many will say, but to this day spoiled offspring are found in many families, so it can be argued that the artist sought to display social problems society.

Completely opposite feeling from Chardin's painting "Prayer before dinner". A mother serving food on the table, spiritual faces of two daughters saying a prayer before a meal - it would seem that the characters are the same, a woman and a child, but how the atmosphere changes!

"Girl on the Ball" - famous painting Picasso, a flexible and graceful figure of a child, balances on an unstable ball, and a strong hero watches the staging of the number. It would seem a simple plot, but nevertheless, this picture is known to connoisseurs from different countries peace.

Let's not forget about Russian painters, on whose canvases there are children. First of all, Bryullov's "Rider". Of course, the central place in the picture is given to the beauty of horses - only Bryullov could depict these animals so subtly and sophisticatedly. But take a closer look: near the fence with an enthusiastic look, a girl in a pink dress is watching her mother. Lovely dark curls, big brown eyes shining with excitement, chiseled lips - this girl is a real beauty from an aristocratic family!

Plastov’s “First Snow” presents a different picture to our eyes: a wretched log house, rickety steps, a dirty yard - and pure white snow falls from the sky. Children living in poverty rarely see anything sparkling clean, perhaps that is why they are so happy about the first snow.

Anguishing pity and melancholy overcomes the heart, and when looking at the painting “Troika” by Perov, the apprentices of the artisan, who are at most 10 years old, are carrying a heavy frozen barrel of water. Fatigue, despair is clearly read on their faces and simply cannot touch the hearts of casual viewers.

A slight sadness also arises when looking at Vasnetsov's painting "Alyonushka". Probably no need to tell everyone famous fairy tale, everyone understands who the elder sister yearns for, sitting on big stone and looking into the muddy water of the pond.

Children letting bubble Ivanov's brushes and Bathing the baby Kustodiev are a vivid example of childish carelessness, which touches and causes smiles. rural free school Morozov is another retrospective, but on the faces of children you can read all the emotions: from interest to outright boredom.

"Birdcatcher" by Perov, "They didn't wait" by Repin, "Children running from a thunderstorm" by Makovsky are bright examples how differently you can fit the images of children into the overall composition.

Revealing the theme of depicting children in the paintings of famous artists, it is worth remembering the painting by V. Serov “Girl with Peaches”. The canvas is made in delicate pastel colors and perfectly emphasizes the fragility and tenderness of youth. This is one of the best and most memorable paintings of the artist.

Soviet realism is displayed in the painting "Again the deuce". The canvas depicts a family meeting their son from school. A girl in a pioneer tie and a tired mother reproachfully looks at her naughty son and brother, younger son until he understands what is the matter, and it seems that only the dog is glad that his little master has returned from school. A life picture that probably happened in the lives of many people when they were children.

And finally, one of the most positive and kind contemporary artists- American Donald Zolan. Only a person who sincerely loves and understands children can create such miracles. Dreaminess and mischief, sadness and spontaneity - the children in Zolan's paintings are different, but they all remind that childhood is a really happy time, awakening amazing memories in adults.

Horsewoman, 1832

"Girl picking grapes" 1827

"Portrait of Countess Yulia Samoilova with her adopted daughter"

"The death of Inessa de Castro" 1834

Portrait of M. A. Beck with his daughter, 1840

Erminia at the shepherds

Portrait of the Volkonsky children with a rap, 1843

Portrait of Countess Yulia Pavlovna Samoilova with a pupil and a black woman, 1832-1834

Portrait of Countess O. I. Orlova-Davydova with her daughter, 1834

Portrait of Teresa Michele Tittoni with her sons, 1850-1852

Venetsianov Alexey Gavrilovich- Russian painter Greek origin, one of the founders household genre in Russian painting.
From a merchant family in the Tver region. Born in Moscow on February 7, 1780.
Serving in his youth as an official, he was forced to study art largely on his own, copying the paintings of the Hermitage. In 1807-1811. took painting lessons from V. L. Borovikovsky.
He is considered the founder of Russian printed cartoons. During Patriotic War In 1812, together with I. I. Terebenev, he created a series of propaganda and satirical pictures on the themes of popular resistance to the French invaders.
From 1811 Venetsianov was an honorary member of the Academy of Arts.
Having retired in 1819, A. G. Venetsianov settled in the village. Safonovka, Vyshnevolotsky district, Tver province, where he began to paint genre paintings from rural life of an idyllic nature.
In his village he founded art school in which more than 70 painters received training. Venetsianov, together with Zhukovsky V. A. and Bryullov K. P., contributed to the release of Shevchenko T. G. from serfdom. ()

Zaharka, 1825

Here are those father's dinner, 1824

Portrait of A. A. Venetsianova, the artist's daughter, 1825-1826

Sleeping shepherd boy, 1823-182

Peasant children in the field, 1820s

Portrait of Nastenka Khavskaya, 1826

Peasant boy putting on bast shoes, 1820s

Kiprensky Orest Adamovich- Russian artist, painter and graphic artist, master portrait painting.
He was born on March 13 (24), 1782 at the Nezhinskaya manor (now the Leningrad region). Presumably was illegitimate son landowner A.S. Dyakonova. A year after his birth, his mother, a peasant serf, was given in marriage to the courtyard Adam Schwalbe. The surname Kiprensky was invented.
When the boy was six years old, Dyakonov gave him freedom and placed him in an educational school at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Nine years later, Kiprensky was admitted to the class history painting, which at that time was considered the highest genre visual arts.
In 1805, Kiprensky O. A. sums up his studies at the academy with the painting "Dmitry Donskoy on victory over Mamai", for which he receives the Big gold medal and the right to travel abroad. However, due to the hostilities of Napoleon's armies, this voyage has to be postponed.
After graduating from the Academy, the portrait became the main thing in the artist's work. Kiprensky O. A. was one of the first in Russia to begin to develop a portrait composition, in which the social class prestige of the model was finally replaced by an interest in a person’s personality, recognition of his self-worth. In fact, he is one of the founders romantic style in Russian painting.
Kiprensky lives in Moscow (1809), Tver (1811), Petersburg (since 1812).
During this period, the most famous works in his work are: portraits of a boy by A. A. Chelishchev (1810-1811), E.D. Davydova (1809), E.P. Rostopchina (1809), P.A. Olenin (1813), spouses V. S. Khvostov and D. N. Khvostova (1814) and V. A. Zhukovsky (1816) and others.
In 1816 O. A. Kiprensky went abroad. The Italian business trip turned out to be fruitful for the painter. He was flooded with orders. Appreciating the skill of the Russian artist, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence commissioned him a self-portrait (1820).
To the best works of this period belongs to the painting "The Italian Gardener" (1817), portraits of A.M. Golitsyn (circa 1819) and E.S. Avdulina (circa 1822), and others.
It is necessary to mention the "Portrait of Mariucci", which played a significant role in the fate of the artist. The model for him was the charming girl Mariuccia Falcucci. Her mother did not have a decent lifestyle. Kiprensky, leaving Italy, bought Mariuccia from his dissolute mother and placed her in a monastery boarding school.
Russia met the artist unfriendly. However, in 1824, after another public exhibition at the Academy of Arts, where Kiprensky demonstrated his works, his reputation was restored.
In 1827 the artist writes famous portrait A.S. Pushkin. "I see myself as in a mirror, But this mirror flatters me ...", - wrote famous poet in a thank you note.
In 1828, Kiprensky O. A. again left for Rome, where he married a former pupil Mariuccia. In order to marry, he secretly had to convert to Catholicism. However family life did not bring happiness to the artist. He did not create anything else significant.
On October 17, 1836, Kiprensky Orest Adamovich died in Rome from pneumonia and was buried there in the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte. Daughter Clotilde was born after his death.

Girl in a poppy wreath with a carnation in her hand (Mariuccia)

Neapolitan fisher boys

Neapolitan girl with fruits

Portrait of Avdotya Ivanovna Molchanova with her daughter Elizabeth, 1814

Mother with child (Portrait of Madame Pres?)

Portrait of A.A. Chelishcheva, 1808 - early 1809

<Tropinin Vasily Andreevich- Russian artist, academician, representative of romanticism in Russian fine arts, master of portraiture.
Born in the village of Karpovka (Novgorod province) on March 19 (30), 1776 in the family of serfs Count A. S. Minikh; later was sent to the disposal of Count I. I. Morkov as a dowry for the daughter of Munnich.
Tropinin V. A. He showed the ability to draw as a boy, but the master sent him to St. Petersburg to study as a confectioner. He attended classes at the Academy of Arts, first furtively, and from 1799 - with the permission of Morkov; during the years of study, he met Kiprensky O. A ..
In 1804, the owner summoned the young artist to his place, and from then on he alternately lived either in Ukraine, in the new Morkovo estate Kukavka, or in Moscow, in the position of a serf painter.
In 1823, V. A. Tropinin received his freedom and the title of academician, but, having abandoned his career in St. Petersburg, he remained in Moscow. ()

Boy with hatchet, 1810s

Portrait of Arseny Vasilyevich Tropinin, Circa 1818

Portrait of a boy, 1820s

Portrait of V.I. Ershova with her daughter, 1831

boy with regret

Portrait of Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich Obolensky (?) as a child, circa 1812

Boy with a Goldfinch, 1825

Girl with a doll, 1841

Boy with a Dead Goldfinch, 1829

Portrait of Dmitry Petrovich Voikov with his daughter Varvara Dmitrievna and the Englishwoman Miss Forty, 1842

<Makovsky Konstantin Egorovich(06/20/07/20/1839 - 09/17/30/1915), Russian artist, full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1898).
Born in Moscow, in the family of E. I. Makovsky, one of the organizers of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The elder brother of the artist Vladimir Makovsky.
Studied at MUZHVZ (1851-58) under S.K. Zaryanko and at the Academy of Arts (since 1858).
One of the participants in the "rebellion of fourteen" (Kramskoy, Korzukhin, Lemokh, Venig, Grigoriev and others), Konstantin Makovsky left the Academy of Arts in 1863, becoming one of the members of the Artel of Artists, and then was a member of the Association of Wanderers (see artists Wanderers).
The work of Konstantin Makovsky can be divided into two stages. In the 1860s - early 1870s, under the influence of Wandering ideas, he turned to scenes from folk life ("The Herring Woman" 1867, "Balagans on Admiralteyskaya Square" 1869, both paintings in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, " Little organ-grinders at the fence in winter" 1868, private collection).
The turning point in the artist's work can be considered a trip to Egypt and Serbia (mid-1870s). After this event, Makovsky began to lean more and more towards academicism ("The Return of the Sacred Carpet from Mecca to Cairo", 1876, Russian Museum).
In 1883, the final break with the Wanderers took place. From that moment on, he painted mainly outwardly spectacular portraits and genre-historical scenes (portrait of the artist's wife, 1881, "The Kissing Rite", 1895, both in the Russian Museum; "Prince Repnin at the Feast of Ivan the Terrible", Irkutsk Regional Art Museum). The paintings of Konstantin Makovsky were a huge success in high society. He was one of the most highly regarded artists of the time.
Makovsky Konstantin Yegorovich died in an accident (a tram collided with his crew) in 1915 in St. Petersburg. The artist left a huge artistic legacy.

Children running from a thunderstorm, 1872

Peasant lunch in the field. 1871

Portrait of a son in the studio

Little organ-grinders at the fence in winter, 1868

In the artist's studio, 1881

Volkov family portrait

Princess Maria Nikolaevna

Portrait of the artist's children, 1882

Family portrait, 1882

Children of Mr. Balashov

Grandfather's stories. 1881(?)

storyteller

<Makovsky Vladimir Egorovich(January 26 (February 7), 1846, Moscow - February 21, 1920, Petrograd) - an outstanding Russian artist, academician (1873), full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1893).
One of the largest masters of the everyday genre in realistic painting of the 19th century.
Born in Moscow, in the family of E. I. Makovsky, one of the organizers of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Brother of K. E. Makovsky.
From 1861 to 1866 Vladimir studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the successor of the Venetian School S. K. Zaryanko, E. S. Sorokin and V. A. Tropinin himself.
He graduated from college with a silver medal and the title of class artist of the III degree for the work "Literary Reading". During this period, which coincided with the rise of the realistic everyday genre in Russian painting, its creative direction was determined.
In 1869, for the painting Peasant Boys Guarding Horses, Makovsky received the title of "class artist of the first degree with the Vigée-Lebrun gold medal for expression." In 1873, Makovsky V. E. was promoted to academician for the painting “Lovers of nightingales”.
Member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions since 1872.
From 1894 Makovsky V. E. lived in St. Petersburg. He also successfully acted as a book and magazine illustrator and teacher (since 1882 he taught at the Moscow School of Painting and Art, and then at the Academy of Arts).

In his work Makovsky V. E. continued and developed the best traditions of the founders of the Russian genre - A. G. Venetsianov and V. A. Tropinin, outstanding Russian genre painters P. A. Fedotov and V. G. Perov.

Boy selling kvass, 1861

Date, 1883

Peasant boys, 1880

From the rain, 1887

Money game, 1870

Shepherdesses, 1903

Fisherwomen, 1886

Peasant children, 1890

Peasant boys guarding horses at night, 1869

<Perov Vasily Grigorievich- Russian painter, master of household painting, portrait painter, historical painter.
Born in Tobolsk on December 21 or 23, 1833 (January 2 or 4, 1834). He was an illegitimate (because his parents were married after his birth) son of a local prosecutor, Baron G.K.
He partly spent his childhood years in Arzamas, where he studied at the school of A.V. Stupin (1846-1849, intermittently.
In 1853 he entered the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture. Perov's teachers were Scotty M.I., Mokritsky A.N., Zaryanko S.K., classmate and friend - Pryanishnikov I.M.
In 1858, his painting "Arrival of a Policeman for Investigation" (1857) was awarded a Large Silver Medal, then he received a Small Gold Medal for the painting "First Rank. Son of a Deacon, Produced to Collegiate Registrars" (1860, location unknown). The first works of Perov were a great success at exhibitions. Perov V. G. prepared the painting Sermon in the Village (1861, State Tretyakov Gallery) for the final competition. The author was awarded the Big Gold Medal and the right to travel abroad.
Having gone abroad, the artist settled in Paris. However, "not knowing either the people, or their way of life, or character," Perov did not see the benefit of working in France and asked for permission to return home ahead of schedule. He received permission to continue his pensioner term in Russia and in 1864 came to Moscow.
Perov V. G. entered the history of art as the leader of the critical trend in Russian everyday painting of the 1860s, combining in his work sympathy for the "humiliated and insulted" and the angry pathos of the satirical guise of those in power. The artist's work had a significant impact on the development of Russian, especially Moscow, art of the second half of the 19th century.
He was one of the founding members of the Association of Wanderers (1870).
In 1871-1882 Perov V.G. taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where among his students were Kasatkin N.A., Korovin S.A., Nesterov M.V., Ryabushkin A.P.
Perov V. G. died in the village of Kuzminki (in those years - near Moscow) on May 29 (June 10), 1882. ()

Seeing the dead

sleeping children

Troika

Girl with a jug

Handyman boy staring at a parrot

Fishing

<Korzukhin Alexey Ivanovich(1835 - 1894) - Russian genre painter. The future artist was born on March 11 (23), 1835 at the Uktus plant (now Yekaterinburg) in the family of a serf gold panner. Early discovered artistic abilities. Already at the time of adolescence, he painted portraits of relatives and participated in painting icons for the local Transfiguration Church (1840s).
In 1857 Korzukhin arrived in St. Petersburg and a year later became a student of the Academy of Arts. Here he studied from 1858 to 1863. His painting "The Drunken Father of the Family" in 1861 was awarded a small gold medal by the Academy. However, he refused to compete for a large gold medal and the right to a pensioner's trip: together with other participants in the famous riot of fourteen in 1863, he left the Academy and became a member of the Artel of Artists (in particular, Kramskoy, Konstantin Makovsky, Lemokh and others were included).
In 1868, Korzukhin received the title of Academician of the Academy of Arts for the painting "The Return of the Father of the Family from the Fair".
Founding member of the Association of the Wanderers: his signature was under the charter of the Association, adopted by the government in 1870.
Korzukhin's work was not limited to genre paintings. The artist also painted portraits, often executed church orders (he took part in the pictorial decoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the painting of the cathedral in Yelets, and made a number of images for the cathedral in Riga).
The murder of Emperor Alexander II by Narodnaya Volya as an involuntary witness, whom the painter became in 1881, had an extreme shock on him and had a serious impact on the artist's health. However, he continued active creative activity.
Korzukhin Alexei Ivanovich died in St. Petersburg on October 18 (30), 1894.

Return from the city

Peasant girls lost in the forest

bird enemies

Girl

Grandmother with granddaughter

At the loaf of bread

The main source of knowledge is the webstarco.narod.ru site, supplemented by reproductions from various art galleries: arttrans.com.ua, rita-redsky.livejournal.com, and many others.

Preschool education faces an important task - to teach children from an early age to understand and appreciate works of art, in particular fine art.

In kindergarten, children get acquainted with various types of fine arts, including painting.

Experience shows that already older preschoolers are able to understand paintings of all genres: portrait, landscape, still life, plot painting.

How to introduce preschoolers to paintings by artists

When selecting works for children, one must proceed from the availability of their content. Landscapes by Levitan, Shishkin, Savrasov, Plastov, Yuon and other artists are most accessible to preschool children. These wonderful pictures of Russian nature evoke in children a feeling of love for the Motherland and pride in it, bring up a sense of beauty, develop the ability to see, understand and love nature.

Forms of children's acquaintance with fine arts in general and landscape painting in particular can be different: conversations, organization of viewing and discussion of exhibitions.

The first conversation should be devoted to talking with children about the artist's work. First of all, you need to acquaint children with the profession of an artist, talk about the variety of types of his activities. It would be very good if an artist, professional or amateur, took part in the conversation - he would show his equipment, easel, paints, how to use them.

And here it is important to say that the artist creates paintings that can depict nature - a landscape, a person - a portrait, flowers, fruits, utensils - a still life or scenes from life. During this conversation, one or two pictures of each genre should be shown.

Acquaintance of children with paintings by artists must begin with landscapes. Pictures depicting Russian nature are closest to the child. This is due to the fact that the child begins to learn the world from nature. During the walk, mom introduces plants, talks about clouds and the sun, pays attention to phenomena - such as rain, sunset, sometimes dawn, fog, dew on grass and much more.

Among the authors of landscape painters, one can note A.K. Savrasova (“The Rooks Have Arrived”, “Rainbow”, “River Bank”, etc.), I.I. Levitan ("Plyos", "After the Rain", "Golden Autumn", etc.), I.I. Shishkin (“Morning in a Pine Forest”, “Rye”, “Winter”, etc.), V.M. Vasnetsov ("Ivan - Tsarevich on a gray wolf", "Alyonushka", etc.).

Children from an early age begin to read books, fairy tales and poems that are easy to remember, but they especially enjoy looking at illustrations. Therefore, you can start introducing children to the work of artists from the work of illustrators. The most famous representatives of this genre can be called V.M. Konashevich, E.I. Charushin, E.M. Rachev. It is important that the illustrations that the kids are looking at are understandable and believable, appropriate for the age group.

Gradually, you can move on to plot pictures, which depict certain actions of people or animals. The famous painting by V. Serov "Heroes" can be demonstrated after the story of their deeds and valor.

It is not difficult for children to understand still lifes, since they often depict fruits or vegetables on a dish, flowers in a vase in drawing classes. The last step is the portrait. Here you need to guess the mood of the person and the age category.

Acquaintance of preschoolers with the work of artists should be accompanied by conversations, reasoning and games, which will provide a better understanding of art.

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