Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy
Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy
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Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy
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On July 21, the exhibition “Movement towards the Light. Soviet art of the 1920s and 30s.” will open in the exhibition hall of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy.
This is a joint exhibition project of the Tula Museum of Fine Arts and the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy. The exhibition is held within the framework of the national project “Culture”.
The 1920s and 1930s were a period that could have become the “golden” time of Soviet art and, in a sense, it happened. Freedom of artistic search was not lost yet, different voices and intonations could still sound. Unfortunately, by the beginning of the 1930s, with a Great turning point, the very atmosphere of the country’s life changed dramatically: suspicion, fear, hopelessness prevailed over openness, thirst for experiment.
Full of energetic, stimulating artistic power, Deineka’s works, Falk’s lyrical painting, Lebedev’s new images of femininity, Drevin’s luminous powerful painting… In the works of the latter, the space itself comes to life, filled with complex iridescences; the light environment in them subordinates the entire figurative system. Milashesky’s keen observation, Romanovich’s creativity, heated by spiritual search… This art did not meet the principles of the official “grand style”. In contrast to the pathos of solemnity, didacticism and unambiguity, the artists of the 1920s and 1930s strove for lyric intonation, complex picturesqueness, richness of cultural context. There was no political or ideological confrontation between artists of different directions, but the difference in aesthetic experience in understanding creative tasks became obvious.
Part of the presented collection of the Tula Museum was formed on the basis of the collection of the Museum of Pictorial Culture, created in Tula at the Art and Industrial College. It mainly consisted of works by artists A. Kuprin, A. Osmerkin, P. Konchalovsky, R. Falk, V. Rozhdestvensky, N. Goncharova and others. Some of the exhibits were transferred to Tula by the State Museum Fund, the State Tretyakov Gallery.
The collection of Soviet pre-war art of the Voronezh Museum was almost completely destroyed during the occupation of the city during the Great Patriotic War. In fact, it was formed anew already in the 1970s and 1980s.
The exhibition will feature more than 50 paintings and graphics from the collection of the Tula Museum of Fine Arts and the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy.
The exhibition “Movement towards the light. Soviet Art of the 1920s-1930s” will begin work on July 21 from 12:00 and will last until August 21, 2022.
The cost of tickets to the exhibition:
Entrance ticket – 200 rubles
Preferential entrance ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – 150 rubles
You can also buy a ticket using the Pushkin Card (online only)
Members of the Union of Artists (upon presentation of a certificate) – free of charge
Photography: mobile devices, camera (without flash) – free
A.D. Drevin. Landscape with a horse. Altai. 1932 (from the collection of the Tula Museum of Fine Arts)
On July 16, the museum invites adults and children to the master class “Light and color of watercolors. Based on the work of Ksenia Uspenskaya” (7+). The teacher of the lesson is the artist Victoria Afanasyeva.
The participants of the master class will carefully familiarize themselves with the watercolor works of Ksenia Uspenskaya presented at the exhibition. They will be able to penetrate into the process of live interaction with the material: spray, monotype, hatching, working with color spots and lines. The participants of the lesson will independently create a complex watercolor canvas through which images of the jungle or residents of the garden outside the window, seagulls by the sea or a town in the mountains appear.
Duration – 1.5 hours.
The cost is 400 rubles.
Victoria Afanasyeva graduated from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Voronezh State Pedagogical University. Author of illustrations for the books by V. Slavgorodsky “Voronezh Region — the history of animals and birds”, E. Kokurina “The Beginning” and others.
Photo from the author’s archive.