6-I Society of Artists Exhibition "Genesis" in 1928
 

"Alarming on the horizon," Genesis ", - said at the opening day one of our art. "Ugly exhibition, scribble" - characterizes the other, and the anonymous reporter chronicles "Izvestia" tells us: "Genesis" has a number of major works ... "vydelyaeyutsya paintings: Rozanov" Funeral of October ", reminiscent of .... Surikov, Bogdanova, Sretenskogo and others "
   No matter how appealing the radicalism of evaluation, but the truth - a modest, it is - in the middle. We come to her relative.
   The first thing that catches your eye - is the lack of "generals": no Konchalovsky, nor Kuprina nor Osmyorkin, spent the night in "Genesis" is only one Burannyi night.
Almost all the exhibitors - of one school, one direction, and almost one teacher, this recent Vhutemasovtsy Konchalovsky and have worked with him one time, "authentic" Osmyorkin.
6-th exhibition, and "konchalovyata" were only more of "konchalovyatami ».......
(beginning of article Vasily Belyaev)
(Magazine "Life Art» № 11.1928.)

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(Continued) On the differentiation and growth of individual consciousness of the artist talk is not necessary. This creates a monotonous impression. What is essential in the manner bytevtsev? First, the transfer of all represented world of objects into the language of pictorial matter, the paint on the material, leaving depicted all illusions. Some kind of picturesque pantheism (as the understanding of peace and picturesque materialism (his interpretation). This is - postulated by Konchalovsky's coming from Cezanne. In Genesis it is another day "tomorrow." For the major in it - is the ability of a vehicle to express the way my mother . properties and surfaces. "Genesis" till this moment did not happen. The notion of material for the "Genesis" did not seem to exist: the body is written as fur and fabric, like an apple, a cloud, like a tree and the water like a stone. We can not do everything the same way picturesque.

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(End).
Not in the abstract, but in the totality of real properties, full-bodied expression of the subject - the next stage of art.
         Not wanting to be unfair to say that personally, each party still made a remarkable progress compared to previous exhibitions.
(Journal of Natural Iskusstva.1928 year.)

Information:
The exhibition was opened on January 29, 1928 in Moscow, in the premises of the Moscow State University (Mokhovaya, 11). Attended by 22 artists, 226 works exhibited. Sections of the exhibition: paintings, sculpture. Issued directory: "Catalog 6-th exhibition of paintings by the Society of Artists" Genesis ". 1 Moscow State University, Moscow, 1928.
Exhibitors: Avetov MN, Bogdanov S., Bukhara, SN, Veydeman KY, Zemenkov BS, Kolosov, AA, Kuznetsov, MA, Lebedev, A. Shuya A., Makarychev IP, Motovilov GI, Murashev DV, Mukhin SG, Nikiforov RS, Razhin N., Rozanov GP, Rudakov, VN, Samoilenko ED, Sretenskii GA, Stavrovskii AS, Stenypinskaya NS, Stenshinsky JS, Eiges VR