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| Endless Tatlin Bowl of the Great: Dedicated to Vladimir Tatlin |
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 "Endless Tatlin Bowl of the Great, impossible to empty not only for him alone, but for the whole generation". These words of Nikolai Punin direct the art of Vladimir Tatlin into the future, emphasizing the special content of the artist's ideas and a unique self-development of his forms, still living in nature and art. Tatlin was an artist, graphic and set designer and engineer, and he devoted himself to design before the word was even used in its modern sense. There was no material he could not turn to his purposes – from wallpaper to foil, plaster and tar. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire, the son of a railway engineer and a poet, Tatlin started working as a merchant sea cadet and spent some time abroad. After his visit to Paris in 1914 he became the leader of a group of Moscow artists who sought to apply engineering techniques to sculpture construction, a movement that developed into Constructivism. His Monument to the Third International, commissioned by the Soviet government, was one of the first buildings conceived entirely in abstract terms and was intended to be, at more than 400 meters, the world's tallest structure. A model was exhibited at the 1920 Soviet Congress, but the government disapproved of nonfigurative art and it was never built. After 1933 Tatlin worked largely as a stage designer. The main objective of Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow is to show the main works created by the artist during his innovative, experimental period. The exhibition features approximately sixty Tatlin's works from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, State Central Theatre Museum of A. A. Bakhrushin and some private collections in Moscow. Those are pictures, graphic and theatrical works, as well as reconstructions of the most significant works of the artist, which didn't survive.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val  |
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| Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge: Where Is the Truth? |
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 The large-scale exhibition project will be dedicated to the 180's jubilee of a well-known Russian painter Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge. The contemporaries of the artist considered his works to be too careless, mistaking Ge's original and daring composition solutions for the lack of experience and skill. Ge's technique broke the aesthetic standards and rules of the of the nineteenth century. The upcoming exhibition will give every willing spectator a chance to enjoy the full compilation of the artist's works reflecting his spiritual, moral and ethic searching and development during the second half of the nineteenth century. In the course of preparations for the exhibition, Ge’s painting “What is truth?” was restored. During the examination procedure conducted prior to restoration it was discovered that under the painting layer there was another artist's work- “Mercy”. The exposition will include about 230 works from the funds of the Tretyakov Gallery, museums of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and some other foreign collections. In addition to that a complete collection of Nikolai Ge’s drawings will be displayed to public.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| Valentin Serov: Life Line |
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 Valentin Serov, a key-person of Russian art on the turn of the 19th – 20th century, gained his world popularity due to his portrait works. Among his mostly well-known works are: Portrait of the Actress Maria Yermolova (1905), Portrait of Henrietta Girshman (1907), Portrait of Ida Rubenstein (1910), Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova and others. Creating his works, Serov concentrated mainly on the development of light and color, the complex harmony of reflections, the sense of atmospheric saturation, and the fresh picturesque perception of the world. A fruitful artist, Serov created a large number of vivid paintings and drawings. Drawing took a special place in his art. The exhibition presents about 250 pastels, temperas, sanguines, charcoals,watercolours and artist’s engravings. Exposition shows the artist’s evolution and gives a possibility to follow his work from the beginning till the end. Read more
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