How to draw goodness? Recently, this question has often been heard on the Internet. Usually it is asked by students who have received such an assignment from a teacher. However, no one has yet dared to give a detailed answer to it.
What interpretations of the theme of goodness do children offer? A mother with a child, the sun, a kitten, doves … You can draw a bright sunny day, a blooming meadow, a mother holding a child by the hand, or a boy bringing a bouquet of wildflowers to a girl. You can imagine a different picture: the sky covered with clouds, pouring rain, puddles … The boy holds out his umbrella to the girl or brings a board to make a bridge over a huge puddle.
However, these are only the simplest solutions. Perhaps good is a more fundamental concept, although it can be embodied in the simplest actions, in which, it would seem, there is nothing heroic. The girl puts back into the nest, under the wing of an anxious mother-bird, a fallen chick. A teenage boy removes a kitten from a tree to return it to a crying baby. Children bring their lost glasses to their grandmother. The boy leads an old man across the road with a cane in his hands. You can think of or remember a lot of different situations.
Illustrations for the tales of kindness
You can make illustrations for one of the famous good fairy tales. Doctor Aibolit, treating animals, is immediately remembered. Or Dunno in the Sunny City, who has done three good deeds. Or perhaps the woodcutter's son Til-Til, who brought his sick neighbor's girl his thrush, from Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird. Older guys can turn to more serious philosophical tales. For example, draw a statue of the Happy Prince and a swallow sitting on its shoulder from Oscar Wilde's sad fairy tale "The Happy Prince". Or the maturing Scrooge sending a huge turkey as a gift to the poor family of his servant Krechet, from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Or Gorky's Danko, holding his burning heart in his hand held high …
The theme of goodness in the work of Pablo Picasso
In the history of world painting, Pablo Picasso, perhaps, came closest to depicting goodness in the so-called "blue" period of his work. Then, in his paintings, a plot often appeared where the weak protects the even weaker. For example, in the painting "An old beggar with a boy," a beggar gives the child the last piece of bread. A barefoot boy - most likely an orphan - seeks to caress a dog that is as homeless as himself ("Boy with a Dog"). A little girl is holding a white dove in her hands, trying to warm and protect him ("Girl with a Dove").
Everyone sees and understands good in their own way and can come up with their own version of the picture on a given topic. The main thing is that goodness should exist not only on paper or canvas, but also in the soul of the artist.
