Storm’s Tranquility

I copied a landscape by Russian painter Viktor Yushkevich. I chose this painting because there are so many elements in it that I like. The overall composition of the picture is divided into two parts, with a full sense of balance. Although the upper part is the sky and the content is slightly monotonous compared to the lower part, it is covered with dark clouds and full of oppression and challenging power because it depicts the moment before the storm. The lower part of the picture has grass, woods, rivers, houses, roads, and flowers... Although the content is complicated, it is complicated but not chaotic. A peacock blue river folds the earth in half, the right half is vast and quiet, and the left half is full of vitality. The whole picture is full of contrasts, far up and close down, cold up and warm down, moving up and quiet down, dangerous up and peaceful down, the upper part foreshadows the coming of the storm, and the lower part presents the carrying capacity to accept everything... On the sea where the sky and the earth meet, silver waves roll and seagulls fly, which is so much like our free souls. No matter how the outside world changes, it is an opportunity for us to grow. Another element that attracts me most in this painting is the wooden house in the distance, which is the direction of home.