In the museum to them. Bakhrushin opened the exhibition "Daniil Fedorov. Portrait Theater"

MOSCOW. The Bakhrushin Museum celebrated Theater Day with the opening of an exhibition representing the work of the capital’s artist Daniil Fedorov. About 50 works of the portrait genre are on display located in the main building of the museum. "Portrait Theater" - such a talking name was given to the exhibition by its organizers.

Indeed, the exposition presents portraits of prominent heroes. Visitors to the exhibition can easily recognize them without signatures. The names of famous Russian and foreign theater workers are known by each of the guests of the exhibition. However, the “Portrait Theater” at the same time reinterprets the significance of the portrait genre in contemporary art.

Today it becomes important not only the external similarity of the portrait, but also the internal content of the person represented by the artist. This principle is especially important when portraits of people in front of the audience, whose images have already turned into stereotypes born of public consciousness.

This is possible only when the artist becomes a "director" who knows how to build a mise-en-scene that fully reveals the world of an "actor" born on canvas with the talent of a painter. Daniil Fedorov creates his works. combining various styles and artistic directions.

Based on the classical Russian school of painting, he supplements it with impressionism and post-impressionism, while simultaneously addressing the avant-garde movements. Existing at the beginning of the twentieth century. Art historians highlight in the works of Daniil Fedorov internal confidence and picturesque looseness.

This combination allows the artist to create modern and energetic portraits, the images on which are full of vitality. In most of the portraits painted by Daniil Fedorov, our contemporaries.

"Portrait Theater" is open to guests until April 16.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru