Etude. Stop, moment!

The exhibition will feature approximately 150 works, some of which are being exhibited for the first time.

The sketches on display at the exhibition range from more detailed and finished works to the fleeting, executed with only the most rapid brushstrokes, capturing a fleeting moment. The exhibition features paintings by renowned masters of the 19th and early 20th centuries; sketches by renowned Soviet artists; and, of course, a significant number of works by Kaluga artists: our late masters, as well as contemporary artists from Kaluga and the Kaluga region.

A study is about the freshness of a first impression, about a pure, sincere, elusive, impressionistic vision of the surroundings, when light and quick movements of the brush transfer the unbiased impulses of the creative soul onto canvas or cardboard.

A good sketch, often reflecting only a fleeting impression, touches the notes of our souls with its spontaneity and inherent sincerity, and all these small and modest works of art seem to call out to us and exclaim: “Stop, moment!” “Stop, moment!