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This is outstanding..
Roger
This painting is not just well composed and executed but gives a real feel of the place.
Just wonderful.
Quote: "The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high point in Savrasov’s artistic career. Using a common, even trivial, episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought him fame." (Wikipedia) Alexei Savrasov - The Rooks Have Come Back (oil on canvas, 1871) (*) Painted near Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma.
This is a familiar sight near my home. I love the sound of mass rooks.
This Russian rookery is very beautiful.
Quote:Art, composition, color, and superb skills combine for another gem of a landscape (or "lyrical" landscape) by Alexei Savrasov. Alexei Savrasov - The Pechersk Monastery near Nizhni Novgorod (oil on canvas, 1871)