Witold Byalynitsky-Birulia developed the traditions of the Russian lyrical landscape. Depicting the world of the Russian countryside, the artist was inspired by direct interaction with nature. Emerald of Spring is an excellent example of a mood landscape, conveying the light and joyous state of nature in one of its transitional periods – spring, a village fence, road, shining puddles and succulent grass. Byalynitsky-Birulia often employed greeny-blue, greyish and lilac semi-tones in his paintings.

Bialynicki-Birula Witold

Bialynicki-Birula, Witold Kaetanovich (1872, Krynki, Mogilev Gubernia — 1957, Moscow)
Painter. Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev (1885–1889) and under Vasily Polenov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1889–1897). Academician of painting (from 1908). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1904). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1891). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Moscow Fellowship of Artists (1897–1900, 1903), periodical exhibitions of the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1897–1900, 1907), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1899–1918), Izograf (1918), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1922, 1923), Society of Realist Artists (1928) and the International Exhibitions in Munich (1911, gold medal) and Barcelona (1912, gold medal). People’s Artist of the RSFSR and Belorussian SSR.