Exhibition "Avant-Garde Directions of Russian and Soviet Art at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century"

October 17 at 16.00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 104, outbuilding) will open the exhibition "The avant-garde directions of Russian and Soviet art of the early twentieth century", which is part of the joint exhibition project GUK TO "Association" Historical and Local Lore and Art Museum ”” and GBUK KO “Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts”. His task is to acquaint the modern viewer with one of the most striking pages of Russian art - the works of avant-garde trends of Russian artists of the first decades of the twentieth century.

The exhibition features more than 30 paintings and drawings from the collections of the Tula and Kaluga museums of fine arts, created in the first decades of the twentieth century. These are the works of S. A. Vinogradov, N. M. Grigoriev, B. D. Grigoriev, A. K. Korovin, N. P. Krymov, A. V. Lentulov, A. A. Manevich, A. A. Morgunov, A. A. Osmerkin, V. V. Rozhdestvensky, M. S. Saryan, N. A. Tyrsa, A. G. Tyshler, I. M. Shkolnik, A. V. Shevchenko, G. M. Shegal, G. B. Yakulov and several others. They reflected the whole range of artistic trends in the art of the early twentieth century from realism and impressionism to cubism and suprimatism. These paintings testify to the tumultuous artistic life of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, when various creative associations “Union of Russian Artists”, “World of Art” co-existed almost simultaneously, and the youth avant-garde artists created - “Jack of Diamonds”, “Blue Rose”, “Union of Youth”, Donkey Tail.

Most of the paintings presented at the exhibition show the analytical searches of young artists who have gone through a difficult evolutionary path in their creative development - through a passion for post-impressionism, cubism, suprimatism, Fauvism, primitivism, but despite experiments in art, some of them came in the Soviet period to a realistic method. The presented works are complemented by our idea of the creative path of such famous authors as P.P. Konchalovsky, A.A. Morgunov, V.V. Rozhdestvensky, G.V. Fedorov, O.N. Deineko-Troshin and several others. The opening exhibition introduces the work of the largest masters, both the Silver Age and the latest trends of the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century.

The exhibition will run until November 17 at the address: st. Lenin, 104, south wing.