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| | Arts Calendar / October 19 / Exhibitions |
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| Academic Drawing of the Late 18th and Early 20th Century |
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 The Tretyakov Gallery presents an exhibition project aimed at introducing visitors to the process of learning to draw that is basic for any kind of fine art. Sections of the exposition will present various artistic learning practices that students of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and other art educational institutions took part in on their way to the heights of mastery: copying from originals, drawing from plaster models, attending plein-air classes, working on costume productions and in the end creating large compositions for works to be reviewed. Students who successfully mastered all artistic levels were rewarded with a bursary trip at the state expense and were given the title of Academician. The exhibition will include study drawings by prominent Russian artists, Alexander Ivanov and Alexei Yegorov, Karl Bryullov and Orest Kiprensky, Ivan Kramskoy, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Larionov and many others. Visitors will be able to explore the origins of the creative journeys of these masters and learn how their careers began. The Tretyakov Gallery has a significant collection of study materials related to the Imperial Academy of Arts, the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, as well as studios of various masters who taught at art schools. To this day, most of this material remains unknown to the general public and specialists and will be shown for the first time.
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| Age of Graphics. From Kazimir Malevich to Oleg Kudryashov |
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 Replenishment of the graphic collection has always been a priority of the Museum. The new arrivals of graphic works were last displayed in 2003. This exhibition of acquisitions and donations will show classic masterpieces that have entered the collection of the Museum over the past 20 years. It will also reflect the main trends in the development of drawing, watercolor and engraving from the late 1910s to the early 2020s. One of the most interesting sections of the exhibition is comprised of the works by the Russian Avant-garde masters, including Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, the great «Formalist artists» Vladimir Favorsky, Konstantin Istomin and Nikolai Kupreyanov, and their immediate students and followers, Anastasia Akhtyrko, Ilya Kuleshov and Pavel Basmanov. A significant place is given to artists who determined the best features of the 1930s art, including Nikolai Lapshin, Vladimir Grinberg and Tatyana Mavrina. We will see the works by the famous artists of the 1960s and 1970s, Viktor Popkov, Nikolai Andronov and Viktor Vakidin, and representatives of the «Other Art», Vladimir Nemukhin, Mikhail Shvartsman and Yulo Sooster. Spatial and modelling solutions in Russian graphics are actively developing in the 21st century, and often take unexpected forms. The modern artistic process will be represented by the works of outstanding masters, Kirill Mamonov, Alexander Livanov, German Cheryomushkin, Vladimir Kosynkin, Galina Vanshenkina and others.
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| Alexei Bogolyubov. To the 200th Anniversary of the Birth |
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 For the first time, this major exhibition project presents in the Tretyakov Gallery the work by the outstanding marine painter and landscape artist Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov (1824–1896), whose extensive heritage includes all types of landscape painting, from seascapes and battles to townscape and natural landscapes. Bogolyubov was a hereditary nobleman and the grandson of the writer, Alexander Radishchev. He found favor and friendship in the eyes of the Emperor Alexander III. Bogolyubov was a professional sailor and military hydrographer, but he was given the title of Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts in «Painting of Marine Views». He was an involved participant in the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, a collector and educator, and the founder of the Society of Russian Artists in Paris and the Saratov Art Museum. Bogolyubov created several large-scale series of battle paintings dedicated to victorious battles of the Russian Navy from the time of Peter the Great to the wars of the middle and second half of the 19th century. These series remain unsurpassed in their historical precision and accuracy in depicting ship rigging and battles. The exhibition will for the first time unite his paintings and sketches for them from a number of museum collections to enable viewers to follow the course of battles, in particular, to witness the grand Battle of Grengam that happened on July 27, 1720, depicted on a canvas from the collection of the Russian Museum.
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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| Japanese Art: From Hokusai to the Present |
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 A new multimedia exhibition "The Art of Japan: from Hokusai to Modern Times" will include not only internationally known masterpieces of such masters of Japanese prints as Katsushika Hokusai, but also little-known to the general public works: women's portraits of the "last guru of the ukiyo-e era" Yoshitoshi Tsukioki and landscape prints Imao Kainen from the private gallery of Russian collector and connoisseur of Japanese culture Catherine Pugacheva. Wooden ukiyo-e prints - "pictures of the changing world" - were perhaps the most striking phenomenon in Japan in the XVII-XIX centuries. They are the mirror of Japanese urban culture with its complex hierarchy, special language of allegories, allusions, symbols, its mythology, specific spirit of freedom and special aesthetics. It was engraving that made Japanese art famous in European countries. Thanks to it in XIX century "Japaneseism" penetrated into European painting and arts and crafts, influencing the impressionists, postimpressionists and masters of Art Nouveau. And yet for most people Japanese art remained a curiosity: paintings seemed like unfinished sketches, scrolls like wallpaper, and prints like caricatures.
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| Kaleidoscope of Collections. Rarities of the Museum Collection |
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 The Museum of Contemporary History of Russia collection (former the Museum of the Revolution of the USSR) was formed under the influence of the events taking place in the state. Initially, the museum was created as the museum of the revolutionary and democratic movement, and it saw its main tasks as showing the glorious revolutionary past, the chanting of the fighters against the autocracy, the story about the history of the CPSU (b). However, from the very first days, the museum began to receive not only documentary materials, but also the material relics. The museum actively complicated propaganda porcelain, art lacquers, metal and glass objects symbolizing the struggle of the working class for the fair world. When completing art collections, the plot has always been very important for the museum — the historical event reflected in the particular work, the disclosure of the surrounding life actual themes by artistic means. Thus, the collection of decorative and applied arts was gradually formed. The Museum of the Revolution storages were actively replenished with the gifts from the Soviet and foreign delegations to leaders of the state, prominent political and economic figures of the country, as well as with the products made in the single copy for the opening of various congresses and party conferences. Despite the fact that these items were created by the best masters of their time, not all of them could be exhibited in the permanent exhibition. In different years, the museum staff found many ways to show art relics to visitors: these were exhibitions of gifts, and visible storage of museum collections, and, finally, the exhibition that you see now — “Kaleidoscope of Collections. Rarities of the Museum Collection”.
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| Legends of the Kremlin: Russian Romantisicm and the Armoury Chamber |
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 The exhibition tells about the patriotic rise of the early 19th century, caused by the Napoleonic Wars, about the increasing interest to the Middle Ages, the creators of myths, and the first researchers of the Kremlin collection. The first part of the display dips into the atmosphere of Russian Romanticism, which allows looking at the Armoury Chamber in the context of an epoch. The second hall is dedicated to the legends referring to different historical objects, such as the legend about “the Monomachos's gifts”(gifts of Byzantine Emperor Constantine the Monomachos) and the fantastic weapons that, in the 19th century, people tried to reconstruct and correlate to various historical terms. The display presents more than 130 items from the Moscow Kremlin Museums and other leading museums of the country. These are the regalia, arms and armour, silver artworks, horse harnesses, paintings, graphics, sculpture, rare manuscripts and printed editions. Among the unique pieces of art are the fantastic armour, executed for the future Emperor Alexander II; suit of armour of the Happy and the Mournful Knights – allegorical participants of the funeral procession of Emperor Nicholas I; the ivory and walrus throne, which was first attributed to Grand Prince Ivan III and then to Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and the statue by M. M. Antokolsky depicting the first Russian tsar on the same throne; the Monomakh’s Cap of the Second Set, which, in the 19th century, was thought to be “the crown of Grand Princess Olga”; the painting by A. D. Litovchenko “Ivan the Terrible showing the treasures to English ambassador Horsey” picturing the 17th-century objects from the collection of the Armoury Chamber in the historical scene of an earlier epoch.
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 Roerich’s art is an exceptional phenomenon in the history of Russian and world art. Roerich’s paintings attract with the original themes that are full of poetry and mystery, freedom of thought and profound symbolism. Nicholas Roerich’s remarkable life is alike to a wonderful legend. His life journey started in Russia, continued in Europe and America, and was completed in Asia. This exhibition project will present Roerich’s heritage as an integral phenomenon of Russian and world culture; it will also illustrate the artist’s expansive and versatile creative path from 1897 to 1947. The exhibition will include works of art and documents. Viewers will see more than a hundred paintings and graphic sheets, from the famous early masterpieces, «The Messenger» and «Guests from Overseas» (both in the State Tretyakov Gallery), to the works created during the Indian period, «Guga Chauhan» (State Tretyakov Gallery) and «The Emissary» (State Museum of Oriental Art). Roerich will be presented at the exhibition both as a «master of mountains», who created easel works, and as an artist who successfully implemented his talent in theater and architecture. The audience will see for the first time the magnificent backdrop made by Nicholas Roerich in 1908 for the Polovtsian Dances Ballet, which was staged in Paris as part of the first season of the famous enterprise «The Russian Ballet of Sergei Diaghilev». The size of the grand canvas is 10?23 meters. From now on, this exhibit is considered as the largest piece in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. It was acquired by the Gallery and transported to Moscow from abroad in 2021. For many decades, the canvas was stored rolled on a rod and now it requires extensive restoration. The first stage of restoration will have been completed by Roerich’s exhibition opening.
Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val |
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| The Age of Sports. To the 100th anniversary of Moscow sports |
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 The exhibition includes more than 150 works of painting, graphics, sculpture and monumental art from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Kursk Deineka Art Gallery, Murmansk Regional Art Museum, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Astrakhan Dogadin Art Gallery and other regional museums. The theme of sports appeared in Russian art in the 1920s and 1930s and immediately became essential. At that time, the development of sports was inseparable from the task of forming a «new man», a builder of the communist state. Large-scale construction of stadiums was underway, and sports societies and associations grew in number. The ubiquitous passion for sports was reflected both in the works of the younger generation of artists of those years and in their direct involvement in various means of sport. For example, Yuri Pimenov played football and was an avid fan, Alexander Deineka practiced boxing, and Georgy Nissky admitted that he sometimes «painted at odd moments between competitions and matches, and stayed in the gym just to pop in the studio». This theme was further developed during the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war years, when the country was recovering after the battle. It was then that the first art exhibitions dedicated to physical culture and sports began to emerge. Sports life remained the focus of both the masters of the 1960s and for those who witnessed the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. Artists and sculptors were inspired by images of people who experienced incredible stress but overcame themselves to win, and became the ideal of physical beauty, courage and will.
Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val |
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| Under the Sun of Carthage. Alexander Rubtsov |
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 Alexander Rubtsov is a pupil of Yan Tsionglinsky, a new mind professor whom many progressive masters of the early XX century wished to have as a teacher. Rubtsov studied in Dmitry Kordovsky’s studio from 1906 and took drawing lessons from Pavel Chistyakov. Upon graduation from the Imperial Academy of Arts he received the rank of an artist in painting and the right to a pensioner trip. Having traveled about European cities, in 1914 he found himself in Tunisia where he later decided to stay. The young painter settled in the suburbs of the Tunisian capital and traveled much about North Africa. The theme of the East occupied a very important place in Rubtsov’s artwork. He was inspired by north African landscapes, Moresque folklore, Arabian living, arts and crafts. The artist’s eclectic painterly manner received into itself various plastic systems. He often worked in plein air and was close to French post-impressionist traditions. Rubtsov skillfully conveyed the intense sunlight and bright colors typical for Tunisian landscapes; he varied shadowing elements, which enabled his French researchers to call him ‘an artist of light’. The display includes 85 painting and graphic pieces by Alexander Rubtsov as well as the works by Vasily Kandinsky who lived in Tunisia for several months in 1904 and 1905 (Mosque in Tunisia. Twilight. 1905) and Yan Tsionglinsky (Kasbah, Governor’s House. 1898).
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