Breaking down Isaac Levitan's famous painting "The Vladimirka Road"

[@jimburchett]

thanks for the music credits at the end!

[@10538overture]

I love how the subtle changes of hue and the slight horizontal chalky path combine to create the dip in the ground leading towards the horizon. That suggestion of a hidden piece of landscape lengthens the road a lot whilst keeping the eyeline low.

[@robinaart72]

Levitan is my favourite painter ...I just feel mesmerised by much of his work - he has a way to make the mundane special too...his technique of treading the line between reality and abstraction is something I would love to achieve...absolute genius imo and should be a household name amongst famous painters.

[@JimLongCO]

I only "discovered" Levitan a few months ago. His work is so powerful and evokes so much emotion.

[@TheNewFlutist]

It's one of those paintings that you feel like you're getting sucked into. I feel like I'm gonna suddenly be walking on that road, it engulfs you from either side.

[@Dan-dg9pi]

I am surprised that you said so little about the artistic elements - brushwork, placement of horizon line, human figures, palette.

[@emptyboxesandrooms]

I’ve been reading the road of bones by Jeremy poolman which heavily references this painting. Arkhip kuinzhi’s moonlight on the dnieper also.

[@346UNCLEBOB]

Note the lone traveler. Alone in a journey through this vastness. SO alone....