Gallery "Vellum" is CHA exhibition "What a darling these tales! .."

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Russian fairy tales in the works of artists books . Exhibition Gallery "Vellum" CHA from 27 November to 16 December 2013g.Otkrytie 27 November at 18.00. CHA ( Krymsky Val , 10 ) , Hall 3 .


Gallery "Vellum" timed to the Fair of Intellectual Literature non /fiction special project " What a darling these tales ! .. " Dedicated book graphics - such its direction , as illustrations of fairy tales . It is considered that it is the publication of folk tales , as well as verses and poems by Pushkin, illustrated and decorated V.Vasnetsov , E.Polenovoy , S.Malyutinym , gave impetus to the development of book art in Russia.
Russian artists, including members of the so -called "grand style" - V.Vasnetsov , Repin , V. Serov , M.Nesterov , N.Rerih , and later in the Soviet era - P.Korin , A.Bubnov , A.Gerasimov and many others - often " paid tribute " illustrating Russian epic. And no wonder : it is precisely literary artistic images of Russian painting has always distinguished the national art school. Direct reference to read, use of topical aesthetic and visual language of the desire to convey the feeling of poetry or biblical parables or fairy tales - the most common technique in Russian artistic culture .
At the exhibition " What a darling these tales ! .. " Can be seen illustrations to Pushkin's " The Tale of Tsar Saltan " ( 1906g. ) itself , perhaps, the famous Russian " storyteller " Ivan Bilibin . Experts rightly called it " picturesque counterpart " Afanasiev and Propp and say that he made " all future generations perceive native mythology of his eyes ." Figures based on Russian folk tales, Alexander Konovalov made ​​in the 1920s , are fine examples of powerful expressive style, close Petrov-Vodkin and early Deineka . In contrast, Figure Anatoly Kaplan "Boy at the table " ( 1947) refers the viewer to the departed Russian manor , fabulously literary life.
In the 20th century, artists often went from the free creativity in publishing, where there was no such rigid control and pressure of ideological dogmas . A separate section of the exhibition devoted to the works of a book by Alexander Bubnov - artist , whose name is closely associated in the memory of posterity with patriotic epic canvas "Morning on the Kulikovo Field " written on motives of Russian ballads in the midst of a great war . And in peacetime Bubnov constantly turned to the themes of fairy tales , to the Russian epic. Known for its grand cycle to "Song of Wise Oleg ". The exhibition will also be shown to other illustrations of Pushkin 's poem - "Boris Godunov" (1960 ) .