68 best paintings of the artists of the Wanderers from the Tretyakov Gallery will be shown at the exhibition in Shanghai

Solemn opening of the exhibition "Peredvizhniki. Masterpieces of Russian art from the Tretyakov Gallery "will be held in Shanghai today.

"The exhibition, consisting of several sections, presents 68 best pictures of the Wanderers to the public, and, which is very valuable, many of them were included in the exhibition from the permanent exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery and some from the museum's storage rooms," the press service of the Tretyakov Gallery said.

The first section begins with the works of artists of the 1860s, which preceded the creation of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions and its art preparing the history of peredvizhnichestva. This period is represented by the work of Illarion Pryanishnikov, Mikhail Klodt, Alexander Morozov, Konstantin Trutovsky, Vasily Pukirev.

"The artists of the" saints of the sixties, "as Anton Chekhov called it, fearlessly turned to the image of the life of ordinary people-the urban poor and the peasantry, hoping that by art they will help to correct hard life in Russia," said curator Galina Churak.

According to her, the exhibition in Shanghai will also include a number of works exhibited at the very first exhibition of the Wanderers. Among them: "May Night" by Ivan Kramskoy, "Portrait of the Historian N. I. Kostomarov" by Nikolai Ge, "Fishermen" by Vasily Perov, "Elk Island in Sokolniki" by Alexei Savrasov. "The first mobile exhibition, which opened in St. Petersburg in November 1871, became" the largest art news of St. Petersburg ", - said the curator.

She also said that the exhibition will include works of different genres: everyday painting, portrait, landscape and historical painting.

About the Wanderers

The Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions is the largest creative association of artists, created in 1870 and annually, from 1871 to 1923, which opened exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Moscow, between cities. The Association united the most talented, active and democratically minded artists of the second half of the nineteenth century, striving for free creativity, independent of official academic circles. With their consequence, the most vivid period in the history of the national fine arts of this time.