Be the Impressionists at the Hermitage

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When a straight line with the president director of Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Irina Antonova asked Vladimir Putin to recreate the State Museum of New Western Art.

The famous collection of French painting of the late XIX - early XX century, collected Moscow merchants Morozov and Shchukin, until 1948 formed a separate museum, and then was distributed by the decision of the Communist leadership between the Hermitage and the State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin. Opened in 1956, the third floor of the Hermitage exhibition devoted to the Impressionists - one of the main sights of St. Petersburg.

The presence of this collection in the Hermitage has had a tremendous impact on the development of art in Saint Petersburg the second half of the XX century.
Moving this collection would be a tragedy for the city.

In the past century Russia experienced a revolution, nationalization, war, change of capital. After 1945, the Soviet museums and libraries received a lot of "trophy" artifacts. Return to a state of almost fifty years ago is to begin the process of endless, unstoppable overflowing art treasures from city to city, from country to country.

It is known that most of the collections of provincial museums are formed on the basis of the vaults of the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. What prevents them back? The issue of restitution arises in respect of pre-revolutionary owners and collectors. Why not return the collection Shchukin and Morozov their descendants - let them decide their fate, give to the Orsay Museum and the Tate Gallery. Proposal Irina Antonova - a dangerous precedent, leading to chaos.

In Soviet times, cultural values ​​moved mostly not from Moscow to Leningrad and Leningrad and Moscow. In the new capital, sent the Academy of Sciences, archival collections, formed the three major storage, a large part of the collections of museums Guards regiment, a significant part of the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. Therefore, if established by order of the President of the Commission will decide transported to another part of the collections of Moscow Shchukin-Morozov, naturally it would consider returning to the banks of the Neva River that was given to Moscow.

For our city disappearance of original Renoir, Matisse and Picasso is equivalent to the transfer of the first capital of the Bronze Horseman, the Rostral columns and tombs of the emperors. It irreparable blow to the city's culture and historical memory of the people living in it.

Please suspend the work of the commission and do not consider the question posed by Ms. Antonova as obviously absurd.

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Began collecting signatures asking them not to pass Impressionist paintings from the collection of the Hermitage :
To:
Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky Rostislavovich

I ask you not to allow the transfer of the Morozov - Shchukin collection of the Hermitage in Moscow ...

same[/URL] can this petition and sign it.

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Began collecting signatures asking them not to pass Impressionist paintings from the collection of the Hermitage :
[QUOTE][FONT="Courier New"]To:
Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky Rostislavovich

I ask you not to allow the transfer of the Morozov - Shchukin collection of the Hermitage in Moscow ...
same[/URL] can this petition and sign it.

[Seriy]

In Russian with collections of Shchukin and Morozov treated very rudely . Collections are divided, exhibited in fragments, collectors do not put the bust in front of museums , and have been , made ​​of gold, as many museums have already earned their collections.
Collections should be merged, set entirely in a separate building.
Moreover, in Russia , thanks to the efforts of these collectors have a first-class collection of Picasso , it is sufficient to create a separate Picasso Museum and it would be a world-class museum .
Picasso's Russia is not a stranger , and his wife was Russian , and worked with Diaghilev , was a communist , and a lifetime retrospective of Russia was , and Tolstoy drew, and Stalin.
Now, for example , the Pushkin Museum exhibits not even such popular works of blue and pink period as " Acrobat with a friend in a cafe " or " Woman in a Hat . Sketch for 'wandering circus performers ."
 It's just kind of nedoumkovatost and squandering of national wealth .

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky ; 2601761 "

ask

I would like to understand who is asking for?
Opinions Antonova Piotrowski announced and justified - each in their own way

Here is the opinion of unknown martyrs

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky ; 2601761 "

For our city disappearance of original Renoir , Matisse and Picasso is equivalent to the transfer of the first capital of the Bronze Horseman , the Rostral columns and tombs of the emperors .

And with such a breathtaking argument - I do not understand !

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A Medina for pictures of Lenin can bring home the Revolution.
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How can already get these morons.
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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky ; 2602411"

As you 've already got these morons .

Exactly!

But I just wonder those citizens who "asked" that remember about the Bronze Horseman, rostral columns and other burial ... -
these citizens know now where the originals are stored and exhibited by Renoir , Matisse and Picasso ? Is every single day on the third floor walk to admire the originals go ?

I'm not talking about the history of the emergence of these and other scripts in which Russia is also a good idea to remember and respect

[Seriy]

Neudomkovatosti of people still do not understand two aspects-Morozov-Shchukin collection - it's not the Bronze Horseman. I do not know and have not read the full story, when, and where, in fact, these collections are exhibited in Russia? For example, I have just this year from the book of Matisse learned that before the war, Matisse was removed from Soviet museums and again he came here almost in the 60s. He believed that his paintings are destroyed, like Hitler "degenerate art" in German e muzeyah.T collections all the time somewhere moved, shared, hiding in parts. Including sold as "Night Cafe" by Van Gogh.
 The second aspect is money. I do not know exactly who earns millions on regular tours around the world the same "Girls on the Ball" by Picasso, but that schedevrami own world, but still nothing, very profitable, obviously. I have already written, including a blog Pushkin had forgotten when I saw this work in the museum, it is always somewhere on the road. And the number of Moscow, and Moscow does not. Moving these irreplaceable masterpieces should be performed only under the sole responsibility of the Minister of Culture. Now, who decides? shrouded in mystery. So do not fight for culture, fighting for money.

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Сообщение от Maroussia

I would like to understand who is asking for?
Opinions Antonova Piotrowski announced and justified - each in their own way
Here is the opinion of unknown martyrs

And with such a breathtaking argument - I do not understand !

Maroussia , director of the museum can not decide his fate . A collection - it is a museum.
Hermitage - is a phenomenon by which I can have an opinion while living in another country. Incidentally, I signed it.
I have often sign a petition against the abuse of Muslim or African women , against the destruction of forests in Brazil , against the killing of dolphins in Denmark , etc.
And I hope that when we will go about my country and my culture , normal people who live in other countries will not remain indifferent.

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Сообщение от Seriy

where, in fact, these collections are exhibited in Russia?

Museum of New Western Art, which offered to recreate IA
Antonova

(In Pushkin's even has a mock hanging of paintings)

By the way, this museum - another of the achievements of Russian avant-garde!