The large-scale exhibition of "family portrait from the collection of the State Russian Museum" opened in Murmansk Art Museum

In the Murmansk Regional Art Museum opened an exhibition of "family portrait from the collection of the State Russian Museum".

On the exhibition features 48 paintings, drawings and decorative art XVIII, XIX and XX centuries by outstanding Russian artists.

As we know, families are different - big and small, rich and poor, young and mature, happy and not so.

On the paintings in the exhibition, you can see dozens of shades of family relationships, feelings and situations. With a century-old paintings of people look at us that as much as we loved and suffered, looking for harmony and happiness. These are portraits of very different families: here and the grand duchess with children, honeymooners and virgin soil. That old wives' birthday party, but in his village came to her mother's three sons-hero. The authors of the exhibition created a voluminous and colorful "family album", turning the pages of which, through the fate of the people we come in contact with the country's history.

Murmanchane witnessed a unique case when in an art museum at the same time an exhibition of two of the country's leading museums - the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum.

Director of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum Olga Evtyukova: "Our guests, Murmansk, inhabitants of the region, does have the opportunity to see the artists at various exhibitions at the exhibition." The formula of a flower "Toropov depicts his wife had just moved from the bride to the status of his young wife, and on this the exhibition is already displayed with the baby and it is clear that it is quite different and it's interesting, because personal development and personal development in the family -. always very interesting. "

Three centuries, a variety of genres and techniques - despite the relatively small size of the exhibition from the collection of the Russian Museum gives a complete picture of how the family portrait developed in the domestic fine arts. And the very theme of the family, according to the authors of the exhibition, close to everything.

Fruitful cooperation between the two museums has continued for a quarter century. The current exhibition has become a wonderful gift murmanchane the centenary of our city and the 25th anniversary of the Art Museum.