Exhibition of one painting by Serafima Vasilyevna Ryangina "New road"

From June 9, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (104 Lenina st., Main exposition) will open an exhibition of one painting by Serafima Vasilyevna Ryangina "New Road".

This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of the famous Soviet artist Serafima Vasilyevna Ryangina (02.25.1891 - 06.16.1955). She was born and raised in St. Petersburg, in 1910-1912 she studied at the studio of Ya.F. Tsionglinsky, and in 1912 she entered and studied intermittently at the Academy of Arts (from 1912 to 1918 and from 1921 to 1923). From 1923 she lived and worked in Moscow, in 1924 she became a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.

S. V. Ryangina is a prominent representative of the art of socialist realism. Having received good professional training, she became one of the best genre painters of her time. Developing the traditions of Russian genre painting, the artist painted thematic paintings dedicated to the work and life of her contemporaries - ordinary Soviet people. Her works are in various museums in Russia, including the State Tretyakov Gallery: "In the Artist’s Studio" (1927), "Worker Lunch" (1927), "Girlfriends" (1945), "Conversation" (1947). Her other famous painting is "Higher and higher!" (1934) - in Kiev at the Museum of Russian Art. All of the artist’s works are distinguished by a high pictorial culture. For her contribution to the development of Soviet art in 1955, S. V. Ryangina was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR.

Despite the fact that the main motive of S. V. Ryangina’s work was the genre of everyday life, she also painted portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The collection of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts contains three small landscapes created in the last years of the artist’s life. One of them is "New Road", written in 1954. It shows the life of the contemporary author of the Soviet village. Despite the chamber size of the canvas, S. V. Ryangina managed to convey the depth of space, depicting a rural street receding into the distance. Much attention is paid by the author to showing a high clear sky, which also creates a feeling of spaciousness and freedom in the landscape. The main action in the picture develops in the foreground - it is an active economic life on a country road, along which a truck and carts with people go.Such a genre detail of rural life as running chickens is organically inscribed into the landscape. The painting of the picture is saturated with light, a dense pasty smear works in detail on all forms, including small details. This landscape is a true and poetic story about the life of a Soviet village in the mid-1950s.

The exhibition will run until July 7.