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| | Arts Calendar / January 26 / Exhibitions |
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| Impressionism and Spanish Art |
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 For the first time of this scale in Russia will there be an exhibit of Spanish art from the 19th-20th centuries. The exhibit will show works by 18 Spanish artists who worked side by side with French impressionists, and took part in the first exhibits showing the new trends of European art in the 1880s. The exhibit will present works by Joaquín Sorolla, Ramon Casas, Darío de Regoyos, Marian Pidelaserra, Ignasi Mallol, Santiago Rusiñol, Ricard Canals, Ignacio Zuloaga, Joaquim Mir, and Pere Ysern. The exhibit is comprised of 57 picturesque paintings, sculptures, and graphics from thirteen museums in Spain, as well as private collections, and supplemented by two paintings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Impressionism is undoubtedly the most popular and beloved style period of the second half of the 19th century. Born on French soil, Impressionism influenced art all around the world. But, perhaps the greatest influence it had was on Spanish artists. They preferred a bright, colorful palette, so that they could share with everyone the beauty of southern nature - the beautiful shade of sweeping trees, the white speckled reflection of the sun, and flowing waters. Spanish Impressionism is influenced by classical styles. One feels the link to traditional art reminiscent of 17th century Velasquez or 18th century Goya. 13 Spanish museums participated in this project, including the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Museum of Montserrat, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Carmen-Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, among others.
Museum of Russian Impressionism  |
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 The exhibition is dedicated to the 170th birth anniversary of Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (1850–1923), one of the most original Russian landscape painters of the second half of the 19th – the first decades of the 20th century. His work organically combines the heartfelt and poetic view of the world, typical of Russian mood landscape, and strict exactingness to the painting quality of his works adopted from the artists of the Barbizon school. Pokhitonov developed an original artistic style that allowed him, with a very small size of paintings, to express all the characteristics of his native nature of Little Russia, the picturesque richness of French, Italian and Belgian landscapes. The exhibition provides an opportunity to fathom the particularities of Pokhitonov’s skills, to feel the beauty, freshness and poetic charm of his miniature painting. The exposition consists of around 100 works.
Tretyakov Art Gallery |
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| Miles Aldridge. The Taste of Color |
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 The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center presents the first Russian exhibition of British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, which will feature more than forty of the photographer’s most recognizable works. “The King of Color” Miles Aldridge is a favorite photographer and cover artist for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair, Numéro, The New York Times and The New Yorker. On the one hand, his works fit perfectly into the aesthetics of glossy magazines, because in terms of their visual characteristics they correspond to society’s ideas of beauty. On the other hand, they criticize the ideals of the modern world and the system of which they are a part. Aldridge always frames a woman: beautiful, sexy, strong. Moreover, she often finds herself in situations or places that emphasize the roles assigned to her by society: wife, mother, housewife, lover. The ideal femme fatale appears before the viewer as an object of consumption, part of the world of consumerism.
Lumiere Gallery |
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| Peter the Great. Collector, Scholar, Artist. |
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 The epoch of Peter the Great is usually associated with colossal reforms and bright victories. The Tsar is much less known as the patron of arts and science and the founder of the first national public museum. His activities gave the country both brand new perception of the world and its place there. Collections of Peter the Great, both scientific and artistic, revealed new horizons for the Russian society, changed attitude towards current context, stimulated the interest of discoverers, statesmen, philanthropists as well as beauty connoisseurs. The aim of the exhibition is to demonstrate the significance and the revolutionary character of Peter the Great’s reforms concerning patronage of arts and science. It is the international exhibition project—the museums of Germany, Holland and the UK give on loan unique pieces from their collections. Apart from that many Russian museums, archives and libraries are actively involved in this project. The display includes about 200 pieces, viz memorial objects, unique archival documents, regalia, magnificent samples of ceremonial arms and armour, outstanding works of jewellery, paintings, sculptures, glyptics, medals and coins, scientific instruments that belonged to Peter the Great, objects from his ‘Chinese’ and ‘Siberia’ collections, as well as rare books and drawings with the records of historical, art and science collections of Peter the Great, which laid the foundation for the first public museum in Russia—Kunstkamera.
Moscow Kremlin Museums |
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 The official wedding lists of the tsars Mikhail Fedorovich and Alexei Mikhailovich, the wedding icon of Tsarina Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina and other items tell about the formation of the Russian wedding tradition and the magnificent royal wedding. Among the rare and especially valuable exhibits at the exhibition are wooden high reliefs depicting a peasant wedding. They were made by an unknown sculptor of the late 18th - early 19th centuries and presented to the exhibition by the Tver Regional Art Gallery. An authentic weaving mill of the beginning of the 19th century, spinning combs, painted spinning wheels and sewing machines of the 18th – 19th centuries from different regions of Russia tell about the important role of the dowry for the bride and the techniques of its preparation, including embroidery and preparation of the “tailor” - part of the traditional homespun dowry or factory textiles. At the exhibition you can see a wide variety of girls' hats, which have great symbolic meaning. In different regions, they played the role of wedding. After the wedding, they performed the ancient rite of "winding up": the young wife was combed with a braid and changed her headdress to a new one that completely covered her hair. A change in hairstyle and headgear testified to a final change in status.
State Historical Museum |
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 The Pushkin Museum opens an exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, the famous English painter of the XVIII century. His works are brought together from the National Gallery of London, the Royal Academy of Arts, as well as the artist's House Museum in Sudbury. Gainsborough became famous for his portrait and amazing pearl color. Among the artist's models were both English queens and courtesans. Although he dreamed of painting landscapes all his life, he became the first English painter to combine landscape and portrait genres in order to convey his state of mind through the features of the landscape. Gaining the artistic experience of his great predecessors, Gainsborough, who never left the borders of his country, managed to form his own style, which formed the basis for the further development of the British school. Gainsborough’s creative heritage is unique not only because of its artistic qualities, but also by the relatively small number of paintings preserved in European collections. An unprecedented exhibition in the Pushkin Museum will collect paintings, created in different periods, the artist's original graphics and exclusive archival materials. Among the unique exhibits from Britain are landscapes on glass, which are almost never issued at foreign exhibitions.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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 State Historical Museum presents an exhibition telling about holidays, entertainments and mass celebrations in Russia in the 17th – in the beginning of 20th centuries. The exposition, which is based on folk and city costumes, posters and placards, the collection of carnival sleighs and objects of applied and decorative arts, allows to form a view of various Russian amusements and games on the ground of objects which have never been exhibited before. About 400 exhibits tell about entertainments - booths, knuckle fighting and downhill sledging, as well as about new ones that appeared with a change of the course of the empire - fireworks, promenades, circuses, cinema. Located in the exposition the “Archeology of amusement” will allow to see artifacts of the Stone, Bronze age, the time of ancient settlements on the Black sea and the Middle Ages, which give evidence of amusements in antiquity.
State Historical Museum |
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