"Birds, hares, foxes and others ..."

August 17 at 16-00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts will open the exhibition of animal works from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts "Birds, hares, foxes and others…".

The exhibition will include rarely exhibited works of foreign, Russian and Soviet artists, graphic artists, sculptors and craftsmen working in the genre of animalistics.

The collection was collected over 100 years and includes works of the XVII - XXI centuries.

Throughout its history, man has been living with animals, hunting them, taming them. And the images of animals came to us from that ancient times. We see them in the caves of Spain and France, in the Ural and Siberian writings, household and ritual products. Since the XVII century, animalism has become a popular genre of fine art, when the main thing in the artist’s work is the image of animals. In the works of Western European artists A. Kuyp, F. Vauverman, K. Guilline, M. Mottram and others. Always there is a caring presence of man. Many artists who worked with naturalistic publications combined a scientific approach to the depiction of animals and artistic vision, the emotional state of animals. This is clearly seen in the works of V. Vatagin, E. Charushin, V. Lebedev. Artists illustrating the fables, V. Serov, A. Laptev, V. Litvinenko, endowed animals with traits, deeds and emotions inherent in people.

The exhibition presents the works of animal sculptors - V.A. Vatagina, E.G. Morozovo-Eckert, A.V. Sotnikova, S.M. Orlova and others, made in different materials. Sculptors worked in porcelain factories and created not only works of authorship, but also models for mass production.

Masters of arts and crafts also worked in the animalistic genre. Carved from bone and stone by the works of Kholmogory, Tuvan and Chukchi masters, the famous Palekh, Fedoskino, Kholuy miniatures, sculptures of the Bogorodsky carvers by their own means convey the unusual images of animals, their characters, mood.

The exhibition runs until October 21, at the address: st. Lenin, 103.