"Lidia Olshanetskaya (1924-1979). Painting. Graphics"

July 7 at 14-00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103, second floor) will be the grand opening of the exhibition "Lydia Olshanetskaya (1924-1979). Painting. Graphic arts".

The exhibition was based on 22 works, which in 2017 were donated to the museum by the artist’s daughter, a Moscow artist, a representative of the famous creative family, Marina Faydysh.

Lidia Ilinichna Olshanetskaya was born in Moscow in 1924 in the family of an architect. Creative family atmosphere contributed to her desire to paint from childhood. She graduated from art school and in 1940 entered the Moscow Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, in which she completed her studies in 1946 as a theater artist. She was an intern at the Bolshoi Theater. Then for many years she worked as an artist in a puppet theater, now bearing the name of S.V. Obraztsov. She also worked in a picturesque factory. She participated in various art exhibitions in Russia and abroad. A brief curriculum vitae reflects only the external side of a busy creative life, interrupted by death in 1979. Many plans remained unfulfilled.

A quantitatively limited exhibition of works donated to the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts by members of the artist’s family, as a whole, fully reflects the main directions of her work, both in painting and in graphics. The main advantage of the presented works is their high professional level and original solution of artistic problems, in each case in accordance with the author’s intention. L.I. Olshanetskaya successfully works in various techniques, and it is difficult to say which one gives preference.

The author showed her skill as a theater artist in the sketches for the play "Gorky’s Childhood" performed in 1949. Five small-sized compositions are interesting not only in composition and color with its dense, colorful gamut, but also in ethnographic terms, as well as in the knowledge of provincial philistine life in its historical past. This is an honorary creative maturity test. In the same year, another picturesque interior appeared - the painting “In the Room”, which attracted attention with its poetic everyday life. The usual atmosphere of a country cottage, with a table covered with a snow-white tablecloth and a bouquet of flowers standing on it. It is said here more than that depicted by the brush.

Landscapes are different in nature. Very fresh and not forced, in large strokes, textured, it says "House opposite" in 1961. Well-found color combinations distinguishes "Landscape with pines", 1973. The same decorative character is the “Tarusa Pond”, 1976. But probably the most remarkable is the “Winter Sun” landscape, dated in 1974, with the expressive silhouette of bare trees near old wooden buildings. And here, pasty painting creates the impression of great internal tension. It would seem that the usual “yard” motive is a poeticized living sense of the master.

No less diverse and graphic work. A special place is occupied by the pencil "Woman’s Portrait", 1955, with a bust of an elderly woman. Still lifes made in the watercolor technique predominate. The earliest of them, 1956, “Pansies" attested to the artist’s ability to work with the use of "painting spots", achieving a subtle color sound. A whole series with the image of various colors ("Violets", Cyclamen white "," Violet "," Geranium "," Cyclamen pink ") was created in 1978, a year before death, like farewell to earthly beauty. All these works are decorative in combination with exquisite color: the colors are applied with light translucent strokes, with a skillful comparison of cold and bright colors.

A separate place is occupied by watercolor with the tempera “Fairy Tale Little Red Riding Hood”, 1978, and color linocut “Fairy Tale“ Little Riding Hood ”, 1976; the latter resembles a popular popular print with its bright coloring. It is likely that this is part of a planned cycle.

No matter how diverse the marked works are in their plots, all of them equally bear the imprint of the bright individual creativity of a person who has dedicated life to art. L.I. Olshanetskaya clearly did not strive for blatant success, and therefore her works are fanned rather by a poetic perception of the world. Usually he is not noticed by those who are attracted by the exotic. The artist loved and appreciated the beauty of her native land and did everything in her power to reveal its attractiveness to others.

In the process of preparing the exhibition, the owners of the collection of L. Olshanetskaya donated several more works to the museum.

V. G. Pucko.

The exhibition runs until August 26 at the address: st. Lenin, 103.