Valentine Diffine Christi - Painting Exhibition
 

April 2, 2011 at the Moscow House of Journalists will host an exhibition of memory Moscow artist Diffine Christi Valentina Mikhailovna (1918-2010).

Pupil Gerasimov, bright representative of the Moscow School of Painting, Diffine Christi was formed as an artist back in the prewar years. On the creative period, she was strongly influenced by her husband, Eugene Vasilyevich Diffine whom the same Gerasimov described as the "main korovinista, continuing the traditions of the great Russian painter K. Korovin. Unfortunately, the early death of the evacuation in Samarkand interrupted his brilliant but short career. After lengthy searching, the 60-th years of last century Diffine Christy finds his own unique and well-recognized style: light, airy, as if dissolved in a fantastic mirage, and almost absorbing subject outlines.

The exhibition presents the work of this fruitful and vivid period of creativity of the artist, in such genres as landscape, still life and portrait.

The opening will take place on April 2, 2011 at 16.00 to the address:
Moscow, Nikita h.8 Boulevard in the Rose room of the Moscow House of Journalists.
Accreditation and additional information call: 89629091242.


                                                                                                 V. Yumatov.
                                   "Moscow Artist" № 39 dated September 28, 1979.


Early work of Valentina Mikhailovna Diffine Christi written, for its recognition, entirely under the influence of painting Eugene Diffine. She only has timidly started its way in the art, when the war broke out. Then there was the death of her husband during the evacuation of a small child, studying at the institute. In fact Affairs creative biography of Diffine Christi begins in the postwar period. By this time, include portraits, still lifes, where it seeks to create a complicated textural play. Free molding color, spatial effects, in short, is still quite in the mainstream of the picturesque perspective that has evolved over time, joint work with E. Diffine. Subsequently, problems have changed, but were still beautiful, and as all of her work is consistent and solid.

Might give the impression that for artists there is nothing but narrow professional interests. However, the meaning of the word "painting" is broader than "put the necessary paint to the right place - not only a" quick write ", but" quick write. " The word is used precisely in this, a double sense. It should also be emphasized that these two parties are bound by the agreement is not idyllic, dialectically contradictory equilibrium: maximum approaching the "living" loses sense "lively" and "life", seeking the latter, losing the concreteness of "live". In fact, still a complex and multifaceted, as between nature, kind and nature, paint is not just some modeling, and people.

In painting, W. Diffine Christi combines these two aspects, and most notably their intense interaction, which over time loses its character, work forties and fifties, pays great attention to fine art, the transfer of similarities. Under a thick layer of colored felt somewhat more academic, constructive drawing a coordinating space and shape the laws of three-dimensional depth. Tone painting in broad-free manner from side shoots down a specific form, summarizes them, but at the same time, too, is taken close to nature, so the flavor is largely based on the achromatic or complex mixtures - grayish, brown - color. This way, maybe not quite, but meets the realistic, as it was understood then. However, the choice of motive suggests that V. Diffine always was somewhere away from the beaten track, in which her paintings could get noisy response. And at that time and later she favored explanation of the chamber, down-home, whether it be landscape or portrait angle good friend, but understandably close. Because the total, despite the widespread "than large-scale, the more significant, perhaps as well known, also appear in the drop (sometimes even easier for him to appear in the drop than in a lump), it is only important that this drop was humanly meaningful. The meaning of seemingly minor, but always filled with a lyrical sense of motivation in the fact that they are natural, that is, no matter how fragmentary, they are still being felt as part of a united, undivided substance. No VM Diffine discovered the qualities of light, color, space, that serve as the main carrier in the painting, the best way to say this substance. But she understood them internally, I felt, more importantly, managed to get closer to their realization, in his best things created in the last ten - fifteen years.

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