"Portrait with history" - at the Gallery "The striker assembly" from March 6 to April 27

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The exhibition "Portrait with history" gather in "Gallery on Lenivka» c 6 March to 27 April 2013 paintings and graphics of the last three centuries, from portraits of the royal nobles to the image of our contemporaries.
The project is devoted to portraits c unusual model: the famous contemporary artist (and sometimes himself), his non-random acquaintance, or carrier strange fate. And it's the portraits have lived after its creation unusual life. And how inanimate image is sometimes included in the living world, reversing the tide.
Artists exhibitions: Alex Arapov, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky Alexander Drevin, Alex Isupov, Konstantin Korovin, Boris Kustodiev, Eugene Lancer, Alexander Moravia, Gregory Myasoedov, Leonid Pasternak, Ilya Repin and Nikolai Sinezubov, Konstantin Somov, Robert Falk, Alexander Yakovlev, and others.
Many of the characters, the characters are well known to the audience, such as Ilya Repin pose theater critic Nicholas Evreinov, Leo Tolstoy, written by Alexander Moravovym "from life" at Yasnaya Polyana, his wife and constant model Konstantin Korovin actress Nadezhda Komarovskaya and many, many others.
The exhibition "Portrait with history" is a story about how much to fit (perhaps deliberately) on the canvas or paper, how familiarity with the model changes the view of the portrait, and that the items also have their own destiny.

Curators: Elena Voronina, Mary Gadas. Works from private collections.

Gallery "striker assembly." St. Striker assembly, 6/7, 2nd entrance, 3rd floor. (Kropotkinskaya). Daily from 12.00 to 20.00 (except pn.i vskr.). Admission: 150 rubles. (For privileged categories - 50 rubles.)
Website: www.nalenivke.com

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Nicholas Evreinov in his book "Original of the portraitist" describes the moment when considering their portraits (including this one, Repin), he finds everywhere the signs of self-portraits: that Mayakovsky grimace on his face, the exalted refinement Sorin, the powerful become Repin in his posture « And suddenly I saw (yes, yes - clearly saw), that is, strictly sorting out without my portraits are not portraits of me that I am here only the material and accessories, trampoline track! that my face only the frame, and the frame, then squeezed one another, very different than I am, though familiar, are more or less familiar ... It was all ... self-portraits, if only in the art of portrait understood not as a photograph, drawing or decal, but peace picture ».
(Portrait is given in the previous post)

Alexander Moravov a portrait of Leo Tolstoy's only a year before his death. Here the graph does not plow, not posing like Repin or Archaeology, and he awkwardly perched at the round table in his office ... Countess, looking at the finished version in colors said « As you have noticed exactly the bourgeois atmosphere of his office » ... A year later, Leo Tolstoy runs out and die on the road, away from those forced by the rooms.
(Portrait is given in the previous post)

Boris Snezhkovsky Somov's portrait appeared in the house of the artist when he was preparing the illustrations story of Daphnis and Chloe. «... I found a Russian, a very good sitter and good, but too athletically-built for Daphnis, and persuaded him to 10 sessions. ... Three times already painted it and see how hard it will I cope ... And my sitter, Russian, 19 years old, was a very intelligent, educated and nice » ... The diaries and letters Luba young sitter remained "Daphnis," Since the early 30's. He is the male model Luba and his frequent companion in social life.

Portrait is shown below. Also on display will be another amazing female portrait by K.Somova (image will publish a little later)

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In the Gallery "The striker assembly" an exhibition "Portrait of the history." Soon lay out a small photo.
In the meantime, a few links to stories and the first reviews.


The story on the TV channel "Culture"
 Paintings and drawings by artists of the Silver Age in the exhibition "Portrait with a history"
http://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/79865

Artist and model. Stories captured on canvas, on display in Moscow
Destiny, written on the canvas. In the capital, the exhibition "Portrait of the history." The exhibition contain works of painters who depicted in his paintings of unusual models - celebrities, friends, artists or people in the country of destiny. Organizers say get the story of the portraits have lived after its creation unusual life, and how fiction is sometimes included in the real world, reversing the tide. They say "News of culture."
 Romantic XIX and critical XX - more than forty portraits, as the tiles are added to the images of the past two centuries. Writers and diplomats, the singer and actress refined - is only recognized masterpieces, and the glory of models sometimes do not yield to the famous artists themselves.
 

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«We were interested to find out this is related to the work when the work is the history of man, the story of his fate, - says curator Maria Gadas. - Because it is obvious that the attitude to work, when we know the history, it is changing, and we're trying to find the features of what we know about him: his fortune or misfortune is his. "
 "Every great artist, even if he paints flowers, always draws its own image" - said Jean Cocteau. This phrase echoes the French poet discovery which made the theater critic Nicholas Evreinov when you look at your profile, written by Repin.
 "This portrait of a distinctive history, in fact he went to the book" Master of the portraitist, "which was written by Nicholas Evreinov - says the curator Elena Voronina. - He believes that each portrait is very much on the artist who wrote it. He talks about how he sees himself and at the same time - Ilya Repin. "
 Boris Snezhkovsky appeared in the house Luba, when he was preparing to issue the publication "Daphnis and Chloe", and has since become a favorite model of the artist. There is also another work Luba-related illustration.
 "He was made an order on the free copy of the work of Pierre de Kazim La Bella Simonetta, and he was looking for a model, and the model was a girl, who posed for him several years before Alexander Levchenko," - says Maria Gadas.
In this exhibition priority - the Silver Age, but here and work, written in the second half of the twentieth, such as a sketch of Lyubov Orlova. These paintings can not boast such a rich biography, two hundred years as neighbors, but because their stories are just beginning.

[B]The Voice of Russia
The artist and model. Stories captured on canvas, on display in Moscow

In recent years, Moscow exhibition life is full of events: museum curators and gallery owners, curators and artists try to satisfy the most discerning art lovers. A few days ago in Moscow exhibition, which can surprise even the most jaded viewer.

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curators of "Portrait of the history of" managed to assemble a unique collection of works by famous Russian painters. It would seem that there is nothing unusual in this: many are now trying to show mostly upscale product. The exhibition "Portrait with history" to be not only aesthetically superior, but also conceptually interesting.
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"It was interesting to see how changes the perception of the portrait knowledge about who is depicted - says co-curator of the exhibition Maria Gadas. - Sometimes it interferes with, because we're trying to find in the work of art is something that we certainly know about the person though it may be, nothing like the artist is not trying to reflect ".

Kommersant Weekend
"Portrait with history"
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2133228

Proceedings
http://izvestia.ru/news/546236
In the gallery "On Lenivka" told personal stories

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Many artists painted loved ones - his wife, his sister and parents. Exhibition curator Maria Gadas told "Izvestia", that "detective" scenes with seductive mass feeding in the selection of works deliberately avoided, and it is focused on chamber music, family, humane stories.

- We are not interested in sensationalism, and private life, although there are well-known characters: Lyubov Orlova, Ida Rubinstein and others - said Maria Gadas.

By the way, a pencil drawing of a young Lyubov Orlova by Nikolai Sokolov is the inscription: "To my dear Grisha in memory of sweet Lyubochka", made by the author in 1975, after the death of the actress.
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