The painting “The Slut”, Savrasov, 1894 – description 
- Posted by Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov
- Museum: Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Volgograd
- Year: 1894
Overview of the painting :
The promenade is Savrasov. 1894. Oil on canvas. 69 x 80 cm
The term “scrabble” means the period when roads become impenetrable. Most often this happens in the autumn and spring, the last of which he decided to display on the Savrasov canvas.
The painting was written in the village of Pokrovsky, where the artist could carefully study and examine the finest changes in nature. Here we see a period when winter is rapidly beginning to give way to the spring sun – snow is melting, leaving puddles of water and dark spills of the bare earth.
The composition of the picture is surprisingly solved – a wide view of the melted road going to neat snowy houses, gouged by light fog, is balanced by slender thin birch trees discharged in more neat technique. All elements equally create this amazing plot.
Such a clear transition of nature from one state to another, as well as the greatest talent of the landscape painter, allowed Savrasov to create an incredibly lively image, breathing nature.
And today, after many years, you do not get tired of admiring how subtly the artist felt nature, how he clearly captured the beauty of the moment!