An exhibition at the Sergey Andriyaka Watercolor School is dedicated to the animal world

Starting from November 30, the Moscow School of Watercolor by Sergey Andriyaka invites you to visit an exhibition dedicated to the animal world of our planet. The exhibition’s exposition, located in the exhibition hall of the School of Watercolor, at 17 Gorokhovskiy Pereulok, was named by the authors of the project - “Animals in Fine Arts”. The animal world at the exhibition is presented in various genres, its visitors will be able to see how painters and graphic artists, animators and sculptors depicted animals. Of particular interest are the works that are written by artists who paint wild animals from nature, in the places where they live.

Several museums took part in the project, providing exhibits for participation in the exhibition, where the heroes are the most diverse representatives of the animal world. A large number of graphic works - more than seventy, as well as rare books with illustrations by artists of the XVIII-XXI centuries, arrived at the exhibition from the Darwin Museum. Most of the sculptures were provided by the ceramics museum.

The most unique work taking part in the exhibition is the canvas “Parrots”, which entered the exhibition hall of the project from the funds of the Tretyakov Gallery. The German painter I.F. Grot, considered one of the founders of animalistics in Russia, painted this painting in 1766.

It will be interesting for visitors to get acquainted with the sheets from the album of the famous animal painter V. A. Vatagin, whose main specialization was sculpture, to look at the fantastic creatures depicted by medieval artists in ancient atlases. Among the exhibits there is even chess, where two animal kings act as chess kings - Leo and Polar Bear.

The exhibits, most of which are shown for the first time, can be seen until February 3rd.

Ludmila Trautmane