Draft:The First Snow (painting)

First snow
Artist	Arkady Plastov
Year	1946
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	146 cm × 113 cm (57 in × 44 in)
Location	Tver Regional Art Gallery, Tver

The First Snow is a painting by Russian Soviet artist Arkady Plastov. It was created in 1946 in the village of Prislonikha in Karsunsky District, Ulyanovsk Region. The canvas is part of the permanent exhibition and collection of the Tver Regional Art Gallery. Among the exhibitions at which it was presented were an exhibition of works by four Soviet artists in 1947 at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as in Prague, Sofia, and Belgrade. The painting the First Snow was also presented at the XXVIII Venice Biennale in 1956.

The canvas depicts a boy and a girl who have come out on the porch of a village house to look at the first snow. The artist successfully conveys the freshness of a winter day, the charm of village children, their keen interest in the world around them, and their naive admiration for its beauty. Art historians have noted the author's deep understanding of Russian nature and the peculiarities of children's souls. The canvas has attracted significant attention from Soviet and contemporary Russian researchers of Arkady Plastov's work. Among them are the candidate of art history Lev Mochalov, the candidate of art history Galina Leontieva, the candidate of philological sciences Tatiana Plastova, and others. From the perspective of Inga Filippova, candidate of art history, the First Snow is one of Plastov's most poetic works, synthesizing the fragile balance of landscape and genre painting. The first snow is perceived by the artist as a miracle. Children with open souls, sincere feelings, and pure, innocent aspirations become witnesses to this miracle.

Arkady Plastov's canvas has been repeatedly recommended by Soviet and modern Russian teachers and methodologists for use in lessons and extracurricular activities in primary and secondary schools.

The painting's image and the peculiarities of its artist's interpretation

The painting depicts a boy and a girl who went outside to watch the first snow. The artist successfully conveys the freshness of a winter day, the charm of village children, their keen interest in the world around them, and their naive admiration for its beauty. Soviet and Russian art historians have noted the author's deep understanding of Russian nature and the peculiarities of children's souls.

The painting depicts the porch of a village house, a white birch tree in the front garden "with a naked silver crown", and a deserted village street "in the whiteness of falling flakes of snow". Soviet and Russian art popularizer Alexander Berezin wrote that the landscape has a lyrical character: "the artist subtly and penetratingly conveys the feeling of a fresh winter day, when dazzling fluffy snowflakes rush through the air".

The children went out on the porch to look at the first snow. The artist depicts, according to journalist and writer Yevgeny Rezepov, "a tender and open girl" and an imposing boy "who behaves like a little muzhich." The children are wearing valenki that are likely taken from their elders, and the shawl on the girl's head is clearly someone else's. The artist's biographer, Vasily Dedyukhin, in his book Colors of Prislonikha, dedicated to the artist, notes the special significance of the ordinary details in the painting: the porch has only two steps, the log wall is without windows (Dedyukhin wrote that it creates the impression of the small size of the hut; perhaps it has only one room), a crow sits on a birch tree, another squats on the snow in the front garden, and nearby is a large dark spot (a muddy puddle that has not yet been covered by the first snow). In the background, a moving sled can be seen, which is being driven by a peasant standing on it. Describing the plot of the painting the First Snow, he emphasized the momentary nature of the event that the artist captured.

"A girl of about eight or nine years old ran out with her little brother to the porch. He is dressed for winter... And she jumped out for a minute, stuck her bare feet into her big felt boots, and threw a white shawl over her head, which she supports with both hands. And her face is turned up, mesmerized, admiring the snowflakes, which, perhaps, fell all night and are still falling... Happy moments are given to each person; they are sometimes brief, fleeting. By depicting them on the canvas, the artist accomplishes a holy deed".

Galina Leontieva also notes that the girl put on a "light calico dress" with only a scarf, while the boy, just in case, dressed completely for winter: in a coat, felt boots, and ushanka.

Semantics of the "first snow" image in the Russian poetic model of the world

Snow is a fragment of the Russian folkloric picture of the world and an object of aesthetic development throughout the 18th to early 21st century. In describing the time of its appearance, Russian poets of the 20th century, contemporaries of Arkady Plastov, often favored the first snow: The first snow is about to fall (David Samoylov); And if the early snow was falling (Pavel Vasiliev). In most cases, the first snow is associated with the process of falling. Candidate of Philological Sciences Nadezhda Morozova believes that artistic images based on "the first snow" can be divided into two types.

The first type is the depiction of the first snow as both a landscape element and an object of aesthetic appreciation. This context includes descriptions of the unique characteristics of the first snow and the emotional responses it elicits from authors. Throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, the fleeting and often rapidly melting beauty of the first snow has immersed the lyrical hero in a state of rapture and emotional excitement. The image of the first snow is frequently linked to moments of poetic inspiration and sometimes symbolizes "all the first occurrences in a person’s life". Thus, Olga Bergholz uses this image to depict a child’s initial steps in life. For Russian poets, the first snow consistently represents "a weather phenomenon that evokes important or significant events in the life of the lyrical hero (and its author)".

In the second type of artistic imagery, the first snow serves as a point of comparison, being contrasted with various elements such as the color, size, and shape of snowflakes, as well as its sudden appearance and rapid disappearance. In 20th-century Russian poetry, the first snow is often compared to the voice of a laughing person, emotional coldness resulting from life events, the purity of an innocent girl, and the fluidity, undesirability, and unpredictability of events.

The painting creation's history

By the time he began work on the canvas, Arkady Plastov had already achieved notable success and received high state honors. In 1945, he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR". The following year, in 1946, he received the Stalin Prize of the first degree for his paintings Harvest and Haymaking, both of which were acquired for the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The theme of childhood was one of the leading subjects in Arkady Plastov's work. In his paintings, children are active participants in events: they are "active, lively, cheerful," each with a unique personality. Plastov himself wrote: "I love kids. How to describe their charm? In a child's face in the open air —clarity, freshness— colors approaching in beauty to the sounds. Painting kids is a pleasure. You're happy, and they're happy. You can see it: a child has everything on a plate. When you paint an adult, you feel a little guilty — you've taken your time. Children are free, there is no such feeling here. I have the right and the wrong to include kids in all my paintings".

In the village of Prislonikha, located in the Karsunsky district of the Ulyanovsk region, where Arkady Plastov created the painting, the first snow typically falls at the end of October. This event is significant in the lives of village children. The hut with a porch depicted in the painting can no longer be found, and the fates of the village boy and girl who posed for the artist remain unknown. Elena Nikolaevna, the wife of Plastov's son, considered the children in the painting the First Snow to be composite images. Valentina Volkova and Ivan Repin, who posed as children for Plastov, shared this view. Volkova noted, "I am completely portrayed only in the portrait Valya Volkova. Otherwise, he painted me in parts: hands, hair, eyes—and then inserted them into other paintings".

Evgeny Kibrick, an illustrator and painter, witnessed Arkady Plastov’s work on the painting the First Snow. He described his impressions in the book The Work and Thoughts of the Artist, which was published posthumously in 1984:

The first snow is falling in big, soft flakes —white, pure, and festive. I enter Arkady Alexandrovich’s studio, where he is working on a painting titled the First Snow. He paints quickly and freshly: the scene includes the porch of a village house, a tree covered in mossy snow, children, and a dog— thick, colorful, and vibrant spots on the cold, white snow. The painting is beautiful, festive, and surprisingly true to life; Plastov's vision always captures the beauty of life. He frequently steps out into the street for new impressions, despite his studio being on the second floor.

The artist first presented the painting titled the First Snow to an audience in 1936. Its current location is unknown, but it was published along with a sketch in the magazine Iskusstvo in 1937. The foreground of the canvas depicted numerous tracks from carts and horses, and according to art historian Vladimir Kostin, the tone of the greenery was intrusive and more suited to spring than fall. He also criticized the depiction of the background, describing it as a monotonous and shapeless forest. Kostin deemed the artist's use of colors and composition to be haphazard. In contrast, contemporary art historian Tatiana Plastova, who only had access to a black-and-white magazine reproduction, found the composition original and argued that the artist did not err in his use of color.

Arkady Plastov created the painting the First Snow in 1946, which gained widespread recognition. The painting is executed in oil on canvas and measures 146 × 113 cm. It is part of the collection and is on permanent display at the Tver Regional Art Gallery, with the inventory number Zh-1304.

In 1947, an exhibition of Soviet paintings and drawings in Vienna featured works by four artists: Alexander Gerasimov, Sergei Gerasimov, Aleksander Deyneka, and Arkady Plastov. Among Plastov’s contributions were four paintings —To the Partisans, The German Flew Over, Tractor Women, and the First Snow— as well as two watercolors. The exhibition was held at the Museum of Applied Arts. The painting the First Snow was presented to a German-speaking audience under the title Der erste Schnee. In the catalog, published in both Russian and German, the painting's dimensions were listed as 145 × 115 cm.

Following their exhibition in Vienna, the paintings traveled to Prague, Sofia, and Belgrade, where they continued to generate a lively response, garnering "great interest and enthusiastic feedback from the audience". A correspondent from Ulyanovskaya Pravda noted that Vienna's inhabitants were impressed by the optimism and life-affirming quality of Plastov's paintings, as well as the author's love for his homeland and humanity. This stood in stark contrast to the work of Western painters, which, according to the article, was characterized by fragmentation, hopelessness, and "formalistic twists".

In 1956, six paintings by Arkady Plastov were exhibited at the XXVIII Biennale in Venice, including the First Snow.

Art historians and audience members about the painting

The Soviet art historians' view of the painting

Soviet art historian and painter, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Vladimir Kostin, in a book dedicated to Plastov and published in 1956, noted the lyricism of the images and the emotional expressiveness of the color in the painting. In his opinion, the artist wanted to convey on his canvas the unforgettable feelings of freshness and novelty on the day of the first snowfall after the gray and dirty days of autumn, when the earth is covered with pure snow and there is silence. The girl's gaze, on her face "thrown back" towards the falling snow, is "full of quiet joy and naive surprise". In it, the viewer, according to the art historian, easily reads the experiences that he himself had in his childhood years, waiting for winter, and with it — skating on skids, sled, the festive Christmas tree, and cozy evenings in heated dwellings. In his other book, Among Artists (1986), Vladimir Kostin called the canvas the First Snow true and poetic. He wrote that the painting evokes a special feeling of quiet joy, purity, and renewal experienced by all of us many times.

Candidate of Art History Lev Mochalov, in his book The Artist, the Picture, the Viewer: Conversations about Painting (1963), and later in The Inimitability of Talent (1966), compared the painting A Girl at the Window (1933) by Alexander Deyneka with the First Snow by Plastov. According to the art historian, what the two paintings have in common is the theme of the eternal renewal of the world and the theme of a child’s cognition of the world. The difference lies in the fact that in Deyneka's painting, the heroine is a city-dweller, contrasted by the artist with nature. The straight lines of the window binding sharply oppose the outlines of the snow-covered garden—nature is seen through the window, subordinated to the view "through a geometrically clear frame and dissected by strict lines". The girl is separated from nature, which is why sadness is evident in her gaze. Deyneka's canvas seems to Lev Mochalov "more taut, austere, aphoristic in manner".

External images
| Alexander Deineka. Girl at the Window at the Deineka and Samokhvalov exhibition 2019 in St. Petersburg [1]
| Arkady Plastov. First Snow [2]

In a painting from a museum in Tver, on the contrary, children rejoice at the arrival of winter. Winter for them is an opportunity to go sledding, skiing, play snowballs, and read the footprints of different animals in the snow. Village children, from the moment of birth, are close to nature. The girl ran out onto the porch in one dress, only throwing a warm shawl over her shoulders. In the images of children, the artist, according to Mochalov, notes not so much reflection and amazement as joy. Plastov, in the painting the First Snow, has more lyrical warmth, softness, and reverent perception of the surrounding life: "As if polemizing with Deyneka, Plastov reminds us of the value of the whimsical diversity of life, the elemental generosity of its colors. His work is characterized by an emotionally heightened pictorial perception of life in all its individual uniqueness".

Soviet art historian Marina Sitnina called the painting one of Arkady Plastov's charming, delicate, and lyrical works. She believed that the artist managed to convey the freshness of a winter day and the silence when snowflakes fall softly and easily. From her point of view, this could only be achieved by an artist who lives permanently in nature. The children in the painting are charming, lively, and observant. The artist captured their hidden joy and naive surprise.

Galina Leontieva, a candidate of art history, found motifs of Sergei Yesenin's work in the painting the First Snow. In her opinion, the painting correlates with the poet's lines:

I wander through the first snow,

In my heart, the strength of

blooming snowdrops.

..................................

How beautiful you are, oh, white expanse!

A light frost warms my blood!

I feel like pressing to my body

The bare breasts of the birch trees…

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Oil on canvas, 210×123 cm.

Galina Leontieva notes "a bright feeling of peace and the coming repose of nature," giving rise to "excitement and joy" in the soul. These feelings are intensified as they come to the viewer through the purity and spontaneity of the children's souls. The joy and excitement of the children depicted in the painting are not clouded by the sadness of life experience or the adult feeling of repeated events. For them, "everything is new; for them, the first day of winter is full of generous promises, vague premonitions of great joys." Leontieva believed that thanks to the picture, "we seem to move into a fairy-tale, magical, and beautiful kingdom full of wonders — childhood". Without the image of children in the painting, it would not only fail to reflect the author's intention but also its inherent poeticism. The art historian compared the canvas the First Snow, which depicts the first day of the arrival of winter, with another picture by the artist — Spring (also known as Old Village), which depicts the day of the inevitable departure of winter. On the first canvas, the first snow falls from the sky; on the second, large flakes of the last snow fall to the ground.

Vasily Dedyukhin wrote that the artist managed to brilliantly convey the happiness of the village children depicted in the picture, for which so little is needed: "weightless snowflakes", the end of dreary, dirty autumn, "anticipation of great children's winter joys," "snowy whiteness", and fresh air.

Modern Russian art criticism about Arkady Plastov's painting

People's Artists of the USSR, full members of the Academy of Arts of the USSR Sergei and Alexei Tkachev, called the painting the First Snow one of the pearls of the artist in the article Word about A. A. Plastov (on the 90th anniversary of the artist). The highest praise in this article was deserved by the canvas for how it "happily combined touching figures of children, with discreet, but to the pain in the heart, heartfelt Russian landscape". According to Evgeny Rezepov, the charm of the painting the First Snow, in addition to the extraordinary skill of Plastov as a painter, consists in the artist's subtle and deep understanding of Russian nature and the Russian soul.

From the point of view of Inga Filippova, Candidate of Art History and Head of the Department of Information and Analytical Work of the Russian Museum's Advisory and Methodological Center, the First Snow is one of Plastov's most poetic works, where "a very fine unifying line has been found in the synthesis of landscape and genre painting. Thanks to this fragile balance of the two genres, the artist achieved their absolute subordination to each other. Domestic genre and landscape are in close connection with the overall concept of the painting, which is the semantic center of the canvas." At the same time, the art historian believes that the landscape is interesting to Plastov "insofar as it is consonant with the child's rapturous state." The painting the First Snow is characteristic of Plastov's first postwar works. In it, peacefulness and "a special, mesmerizing silence" are manifested. According to Filippova, the artist enjoys the opportunity to listen "to nature frozen in anticipation of magic or to that which is underlyingly maturing in his own soul and so in tune with what is happening around him." The first snow is perceived by the artist himself as a miracle. Witnesses of this miracle are children with open souls, sincere feelings, pure and innocent aspirations.

Filippova noted that the color scheme of the painting is unusually laconic for Plastov's work in general:

"It is based on the juxtaposition of dark and light spots within the gray-blue, white, and black, in combination with ochre. The plasticity of the line—the characteristic bends of birch branches, the emphasized strictness of the log cabin wall's drawing, the piket fence at the porch—plays a major role here. The pictorial expressiveness of the canvas is convincing in Plastov's manner. The artist managed to convey the feeling of dampness in the air, the friability of warm snow thickly lying on the wet ground. The figures of children standing on the porch are the emotional center of the painting, the focus of the artist's understanding of the child's soul".

Marina Udaltsova, an art historian and researcher at the Tsaritsyno Museum, notes "Levitan's mood" in the painting, describing "the achromatic range of colors, silence, serenity, and harmony reigning in the world". Doctor of Art History Vladimir Lenyashin observed that the painting the First Snow conveys "the unclouded joy of communicating with nature".

Tatyana Plastova, Candidate of Philological Sciences and Head of the Department of Humanities at the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, attributed the First Snow to the paintings by the artist (Spring, Noon, Youth, etc.) created in the 1950s and 1960s, in which he moved away from purely genre painting into the realm of plastic metaphor, subordinating his poetics to the pursuit of greater expressiveness. For the researcher, the First Snow is evidence of the artist's rethinking of his "impressionistic language." In reference to this painting, Tatyana Plastova quoted a fragment from a book by Doctor of Art History Michael German: "The Impressionists painted not the objects themselves, not space, but that luminous 'cover,' that intangible substance, which in fact most of all interested them".

Painting in pedagogy and teaching methodology in primary and secondary education

Arkady Plastov's canvas has been repeatedly recommended by Soviet and contemporary Russian educators and methodologists for use in primary and secondary school lessons. In particular, Tatyana Gubernskaya, Candidate of Philological Sciences and Associate Professor of the Russian Language Department at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen, in the methodological manual Learning to Write Essays and Compositions (2011), considered it appropriate to use the painting to work on essays in the 4th grade. Methodologist-philologist Natalia Bezdenezhnykh, in the manual Statements, Essays, Mini-Essays for Elementary School (2013), suggests an essay on this painting for 3rd grade students. The authors of the teachers' manual Russian Language. 4th Grade. Training Developments for the Teaching Materials of V. P. Kanakina, V. P. Kanakina, V. G. Goretsky "School of Russia", Tatyana Sitnikova and Irina Yatsenko, describe in detail the methods for teachers to prepare students for writing an essay on a painting. Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Galina Bakulina has compiled an example of a lesson outline for working on an essay about the painting the First Snow in the 4th grade.

In November 2020, the Orenburg Regional Polyethnic Children's Library prepared a short video dedicated to Arkady Plastov's painting the First Snow as part of the YouTube series The History of One Masterpiece.

Oral work on Arkady Plastov's painting, based on questions formulated in the manual, is intended for use in primary school lessons in the book Literary Reading. Grade 2. Textbook by Ella Katz. In the textbook Art. Fine Art for grade 8 (2015), authored by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Stanislav Lomov, Doctor of Art History Sergey Ignatiev, and teacher Marina Karmazina, and aligned with the Federal State Educational Standards, recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and included in the Federal List of textbooks for secondary general education schools, the canvas First Snow is used to illustrate the artist's ability to convey strong emotional states in static paintings.

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Catalogs

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Textbooks for general schools and methodological manuals for teachers

• Бакулина, Г. (2021). "Урок 7. Сочинение по картине А. А. Пластова 'Первый снег'". Обучение сочинению в начальной школе. 4 класс. Методическое пособие с примерными конспектами уроков (in Russian). М.: Издательский центр «ВЛАДОС». pp. 51–57. ISBN 978-5-9074-8212-8.
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• Губернская, Т. В. (2011). Учимся писать изложения и сочинения. 4 класс. Светлячок (in Russian). М.: Эксмо. pp. 18–20. ISBN 978-5-699-52732-8.
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• Ситникова Т. Н., Яценко И. Ф. (2021). "Сочинение по картине А. А. Пластова 'Первый снег'". Русский язык. 4 класс. Поурочные разработки к УМК В. П. Канакиной, В. Г. Горецкого «Школа России». Изд. 8-е. В помощь школьному учителю (in Russian). М.: Вако. pp. 169–173. ISBN 978-5-4080-5553-1.

External links

• The History of One Masterpiece