On September 22, the exhibition “Painting by Zinovy Popov and Yuri Vnodchenko” from the collection of the Voronezh Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy opened in the V.S. Sorokin Art Museum – the Master’s House

The exhibition includes about 28 paintings from the collections of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy. The creativity of the artists whose works are presented at the exhibition is connected with the Voronezh Region.

Popov Zinovy Efimovich (1924-1984) – painter, graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists (1960), participant of the Great Patriotic War. He carried his childhood dream of becoming an artist through all the trials of front-line life and realized it already in peacetime. The master worked mainly in the genres of portrait and landscape. Color is the main expressive means in the works of the artist. The exhibition presents lyrical rural landscapes (“Winter”, “Haystacks”, “Spring Day”, “Willows”, etc.), events from the everyday life of people of the 60s -70s (“Fair”), female portraits, still life “Winter Window”.

Vnodchenko Yuri Fedorovich (1927-2013) – painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. For many years he headed a group of artists who traveled to collective farms to create paintings. He painted peasants living a life of daily hard work (“Birdhouse”), created portraits – biographies of elderly people (“Loneliness”). The artist reveals a deep psychological characteristic in his self-portrait. The exhibition also includes rural and urban landscapes (“Summer rain”, “Collective farm yard”, “Thaw”, etc.), still life (“Still Life with mountain ash”).

The works presented at the exhibition will be of interest to a wide audience, the older generation, young people and very young viewers.

The exhibition will run from September 22 to November 5, 2023