Moscow Museum of Modern Art
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Moscow Museum Guide
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[edit] Description
Moscow Museum of Modern Art concentrates on representing foreign and Russian art of the 20th – 21st centuries, showing whole variety of tendencies and art schools. The Museum was established in December 1999 – on the eve of the new millennium. It occupies a nice 18th century mansion in Moscow downtown built by famous Russian architect Matvey Kozakov, and this fact fully illustrates the continuity of different epochs and vast diversity of artistic styles that can be harmonically combined.
[edit] Russian Art
Russian art was developing in reverse direction: progressive 19th century that gave us Alexander Pushkin is known as “Golden age”, early 20th century is “Silver age” and present epoch is often named “Bronze age”. This allegory has much in common with creativity of celebrated Zurab Tsereteli, director, patron of art and founder of Moscow Museum of Modern Art: many sculptures by Tsereteli are made of bronze. His works decorate the courtyard of the Museum, as well as some beauty squares of Moscow (for example, the celebrated monument to Peter the Great).
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[edit] Tsereteli’s Private Collection
Tsereteli’s private collection of Russian and foreign modern art makes the exposition of the Museum. He started his collection in the middle 1960s when he went to Paris as a painter and got acquainted with Pablo Picasso, who presented him one of his works. Now the collection contains works of fauvism, cubism, Russian avant-garde (especially abstractionism), dadaism, surrealism, etc. As the funds of the museum are very rich, the expositions often change one another in order to show the whole artistic heritage of the 20th century.
[edit] Fragment of Eiffel Tower
One more curious showpiece at the courtyard of the Museum is the fragment of the stairs of the Eiffel Tower (in 1980s it was replaced by elevators). The fragment of the stairs goes upwards into the sky, leading to nowhere.| |
Closed: last Monday of the month
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