Description of Leon Bakst’s painting “Rain”
Year of creation – 1906, materials – paper, ink, gouache, dimensions – 15.9 by 13.3 cm. Stored in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Leon Bakst is a magnificent graphic artist, set designer and decorator, originally from the Belarusian city of Grodno, which is not so widely known now. Nevertheless, his work deserves special attention. He created the sets and models of costumes for many theatrical productions of the great S. P. Cocteau, artist I. I. Levitan and many others.
Difficult work, saturated with a multitude of actors and details, transmits the rapid movement, suddenly caught in the rain of various characters, most of whom do not even fit completely into the “frame”. To the right, behind a stone support, is a woman in a dark, eggplant dress, whose hem bared her leg. On the left, the figure of the fabulous little acrobat boy in a striped cap is cropped off the edge of the sheet.
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In a limited color range, the master was able to favorably emphasize all the elements of the plan and show the bad weather in an unusual perspective and beauty. The image can be interpreted in different ways, it even seems that the main character is a beautiful rain nymph.
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