Exhibition of a complete painting by Alexander Mikhailovich Pokrovsky (1881-1938) "Mill on the Yachenka River"

On July 7, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (104 Lenina st., Main exposition) will open the exhibition of the full painting by Alexander Mikhailovich Pokrovsky (1881-1938) “Mill on the river. Yachenka ". First third of the twentieth century

A. Pokrovsky is a painter, graphic artist and theater artist. Born into the family of a railway employee. He studied in the studio of A.P. Bolshakov, in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, in the workshops of the artists Khalyavin, Pyrin and the sculptor Matveyev. Before the revolution he lived in Moscow, where for some time he worked as a decorator-performer at the Bolshoi Theater. From 1906 he took part in various art exhibitions. After the revolution, he lived in Kaluga and a number of cities near Moscow (Govardovo, Ermolino, Orekhovo-Zuevo), where he worked as a decorator and head of art clubs in workers’ clubs, did illustrations for Moscow publishing houses, and was director of the Borovsk Museum of Local Lore. In 1926-1932. - Member of the Kaluga branch of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Participant of exhibitions of works by Kaluga artists from 1923 to 1938. In 1939 g.the posthumous exhibition of the master took place in the Kaluga Art Museum.

The Kaluga Museum stores more than 30 paintings and graphic works of the master. These are mainly landscapes and sketches of city streets, as well as several theatrical scenery.

The work "Mill on the river. Yachenka ”was created in the first decades of the twentieth century, in a new significant historical period. This is the time of the formation of young Soviet art, which took the method of realism as a basis, and set the story of Soviet reality as its main goal: successes in construction and agriculture, the life of the Red Army, the daily life of workers and peasants, the glorification of revolutionaries and heroes of labor. In 1922, a broad artistic movement took the form of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, which for the next decade became one of the main artistic forces of the country.

The Kaluga work is a vivid example of the art of its time. Before us is a summer landscape, the semantic center of which is the building of the mill and the dam next to it. Despite the seeming routine of the plot, the life of an ordinary person is presented festively, and the work is poetic. The bright, iridescent waters of the river stand out against the background of lush greenery and blue-violet distances. The elegantly designed foreground also enlivens the picture. Placed in separate strokes of local colors, it resembles an intricate ornament that reinforces the general major structure of the work.

The work of A. Pokrovsky “Mill on the river. Yachenka ”is exhibited on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the artist’s birth, as well as the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Kaluga branch of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.

The exhibition will run until August 4.