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REALISM IN THE RUSSIAN ART OF THE SECOND PART OF 20TH CENTURY

The exhibition will present the works by artists of the after-war time who developed in their art the traditions of Russian realism from the Moscow private collection. The idyllic scenes from the life of Russian and Soviet village in the oeuvre of Tkachev brothers and Valentin Sidorov, lyrical landscapes by Aleksey Gritsay and Sergei Gerasimov are presented in this collection alongside with the works by Gely Korzhev that are fulfilled with tragic reflections on the fate of a man and his place in the social world. These different in an emotional mood and in the author’s interpretation of the Russian realistic tradition artists are common in their sincere love to the Native land and to the epoch they had to live and work in as well as in their principal outlook on the art as the service to the truth.

The exposition will include the works by the classics of the Soviet art: Helium Korzhev, brothers Aleksey Tkachev and Sergey Tkachev, Valentin Sidorov, Vladimir Stozharov, Victor Ivanov, Aleksey Gritsay, Sergei Gerasimov, Pyotr Ossovskiy, Nikolai Andronov, Natalia Egorshina, Ivan Sorokin, Yuri Kugach alongside with the works by the sculptors Mikhail Pereyaslavez, Ivan Korzhev, Alexander Burganov. The exhibition that will embrace the period since the 1950’s till the 2000’s must essentially extend the idea of the creative oeuvre of artists who are known to the viewers for the permanent exposition of the Russian Museum and will put together the works by such masters as Andrei Kurnakov, Alexander Gritsay, Mikhail Kugach who did not participate in the exhibition projects of the Russian Museum earlier.

The exhibition is supported by the most significant Russian and foreign companies, among them Magnezit Group ZAO Raiffeisenbank, Ernst & Young, Roullier Group, ANH Refractories Company, E. K. W. GmbH., Knöllinger FLO-TEC GmbH, SMS Siemag AG

04 July - 08 October 2012


A bronze sculpture of Mongolian warrior Genghis Khan has been unveiled at Marble Arch in central London

The 16ft tall (5m) statue captures the legendary leader wearing Mongolian armour Genghis Khan on his steed.

The sculpture by artist Dashi Namdakov will stand next to Cumberland Gate until early September ... more


Banksy 'paper bag' artwork in Bristol painted over

An artwork by street artist Banksy in Bristol has been painted over in an incident described by residents as an "act of vandalism".

The painting, opposite Bristol Children's Hospital, is of a crouched armed police officer, with a child about to burst a paper bag behind him ... more


Subterranean oil tanks to be Tate's 2012 showpiece

Two subterranean oil tanks behind Tate Modern will be transformed into galleries, creating the "most exciting new space for art in the world", according to the gallery's chairman ... more


Herzog & de Meuron to build Asia's largest Modern Art Museum in Kolkata

Unlike New Delhi and Mumbai, the city of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) has no modern art museum, despite its traditional status as a center of art and culture ... more


A contemporary art auction has made £108.8m - a London record for such a sale

The top lot was Francis Bacon's Crouching Nude, which made £8.3m, while there were artist records for Germans Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz.

An Andy Warhol electric pink acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas of Blondie singer Deborah Harry went for £3 ... more


Picasso painting sold for almost £13.5m at Christie's

A rarely seen painting by Pablo Picasso has been sold for almost £13.5m at Christie's auction house in London, exceeding expectations.

Jeune Fille Endormie (1935), a portrait of the Spanish artist's lover, had been estimated to sell for £9m-12m ... more


Philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield has given a total of £8.2m to 11 galleries, theatres and museums to create learning areas for children and young people

Tate Britain and the National Theatre are among recipients as are regional venues like Bath's Holburne Museum.

The "creative learning spaces" would help children benefit from the "transforming power of our world class cultural organisations", she said ... more


Van Gogh paintings 'degraded by UV-driven reaction'

Scientists have identified why the bright yellows in some of Vincent van Gogh's paintings have turned brown.
A complex chemical reaction is behind the deterioration of the works ... more


Ai Weiwei's first retrospective in China Is canceled due to unexplained "Sensitive" political situation

There's trouble at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. First, it was announced that Guy Ullens is divesting himself of the institution that he founded, and in fact getting out of Chinese art entirely, after having faced various roadblocks to realizing his vision in the Chinese capital ... more


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