the civilized world will reach a peak of domestic comfort, the look-minded people turned to the future, to the cosmos internal and real. Passion mystical traditions, rapidly spread in Russia at the turn of the XIX - XX centuries, touched and artists. In a colorful picture of artistic trends that emerged in the 1910-1920-ies., Stand out artists of the "Amaravella." The general idea, uniting artists of this community, they have been formulated in the manifesto: "Our creative and intuitive for the most part, focused on different aspects of the disclosure of the Cosmos - in human form in the landscape and in the mapping of abstract images of the inner world." Special influence on the attitudes of Roerich had Voloshin.
The spiritual content of painting as Voloshin, and artists' Amaravella "stemmed from their romantic world view, their passion of ancient and modern philosophy, eastern philosophy and theosophy. They accepted the idea dvoemiriya - along with the existence of the material world of the spiritual world, they were close pantheistic idea of ​​spirituality and divinity of nature and the cosmos, the idea of ​​a living, harmonious relationship between man and the universe, in a moral sense, they recognized the existence of light and darkness, good and evil, and they believed the spiritual ascent of man in many incarnations. An important factor in the spiritual transformation of the man they believed art.
Voloshin called his educational mission: "Buddhism, Catholicism, magic, occultism, theosophy ...". All this was seen through the prism of art. Often his watercolor landscapes, he signed a line of verse that gives an idea of ​​poetry portrayed, rather than transmitting real landscape as mood.
Artists' Amaravella "greatly expanded understanding of the cosmos. They presented many hide in the shadow edge of space and, above all, his poetry, his music, his fascinating mystery, and each did it their own way and using individual artistic means.
The exhibition displays the work of two representatives of the "Amaravella." In the works of the founder of PP Fateev fantastic face reflected the philosophical bias, paintings BA Smirnov-Rusetsky distinguishes spilled all over the ground and space real landscapes spiritual nature, mysticism.
In an article dated November 1917, Fateev wrote: "New music, poetry, philosophy, the last time the current art: Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, Indian yoga, Theosophists, recent science, everything is marked by what can be called a new cosmic consciousness. "
Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (after all his companions deceased) in 1990 said: "In recent years I have noticed how the viewer grows spiritually and more subtly and deeply understands the art of" Amaravella "that affected one of the most important ideas of humanism - the idea the great unity of the universe, it becomes more obvious to contemporaries. It is like a bridge had spread from the first spiritual quest and discoveries of the early twentieth century to the end of it, when the same quest reborn in a new, improved form of enriched massive shifts of science, social and philosophical thought. " Incredibly strong impression on the Smirnov-Rusetsky made acquaintance with Roerich. He is interested in the first place, philosophy, and discoveries NK Roerich's paintings. Subsequently Smirnov-led fund Rusetsky Roerich, and it becomes a matter of life.

Russian Space Art, as a specific area of ​​national thought, very often, look to the East. In the East, there was a different tradition in the understanding of rationality in action. It was dominated by the ideal of minimal interference with the flow of natural and social processes, was well-established understanding of the "Tao" as the unity of truth and morality. Eastern philosophy can not be compared to a certain set of dogmas or historical monuments, not transformative. On the contrary, the reference to the philosophy of India and China - is a reference to the original essence of the person. Man is not only to others, but sometimes to himself remains unsolved, mysterious depth and inscrutability of inner peace.