The State Tretyakov Gallery
The artist implements divisionism techniques to transmit fleeting movements in nature: fast gusts of wind, flutter of foliage, and a rapid run of sun glare on forest grass. It seems that everything in this picture is moving: air flows go through young trees; they rush along a flower field, matting the bank of a bright canal.
The main topic of Mescherin’s art was poetry of Russian nature. Unlike a lot of his contemporaries he did not paint well-kept parks in the French style, ancient estates. His world is the world of an common village seen through the eyes of its inhabitants and nature in all its variety of changeable states. As an art critic Alexey Alexandrovich Fedorov-Davydov wrote, “life of nature itself, its variability and development were an expression of development of a person’s feelings, of variability of his moods sometimes barely perceptible”. These words best suit Mescherin’s landscapes whose art work Igor Grabar described as a deeply personal experience of the world around him: "His art was like two peas in a pod like his life - as restrained as his speech, as quiet as his voice ... he selflessly loved Russian nature and knew it so deeply as only few people did..."