Exhibition Two Capitals. Russian painting of the twentieth - early twenty-first centuries Automatic translate

On June 1, 2015, the exhibition “Two Capitals” opens at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, which begins a cycle devoted to contemporary art and sets new traditions for the exchange of artistic and aesthetic values ​​of two great cities.

The objective of the exhibition is to create a single art space that unites the historically important art schools of Moscow and St. Petersburg. This is a unique opportunity for art lovers to follow the features of the Leningrad (and later St. Petersburg) and Moscow art schools, to show the continuity of the painting traditions of different generations.

The exhibition will feature about 200 paintings by renowned artists who graduate from Moscow and Leningrad art schools and workshops. The life of the Soviet era with its values ​​and ideals, victories and heroes, plots and everyday moods is reflected in the images of realistic art created by such masters as Arkady Plastov, Alexey Gritsay, Sergey and Alexey Tkachev, Victor Ivanov, Dmitry Zhilinsky, Vyacheslav Zagonek, Leonid Vayshlya, Yuri Podlaski, Nikolai Solomin, Victor Popkov, Igor Obrosov. An important emphasis in their work is the internal state of their characters, the emotional fullness of landscapes, still lifes, everyday sketches.

“Flood in Prislonikha” and “Male Portrait” by Arkady Plastov, “The Beginning of May” by Vyacheslav Zagonek, “In the Village of Intsikul” by Nikolai Solomin - all these works are an excellent reflection of the new period of the rise of Russian art and national art schools of the 1960s and 70s. Most vividly this rise is demonstrated by “Family by the Sea” by Dmitry Zhilinsky, made in the style of social art.

Representatives of modern fine art become the successors of their so different, but not inferior to each other in a high level of skill, Moscow and St. Petersburg art schools. The traditions and achievements of academic art and new trends are embodied in the works of artists such as Dmitry Shmarin, Maxim Faustov, Nikolai Burtov, Ashot Khachatryan, Vladimir and Alexander Shevardin, Yuri Konstantinov and many others.

Almost all the works presented at the exhibition have long been in private collections and collections in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and many of them are on display for the first time.