In the Gallery "The striker assembly" an exhibition "Portrait of the history." Soon lay out a small photo.
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Paintings and drawings by artists of the Silver Age in the exhibition "Portrait with a history"
http://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/79865
Artist and model. Stories captured on canvas, on display in Moscow
Destiny, written on the canvas. In the capital, the exhibition "Portrait of the history." The exhibition contain works of painters who depicted in his paintings of unusual models - celebrities, friends, artists or people in the country of destiny. Organizers say get the story of the portraits have lived after its creation unusual life, and how fiction is sometimes included in the real world, reversing the tide. They say "News of culture."
Romantic XIX and critical XX - more than forty portraits, as the tiles are added to the images of the past two centuries. Writers and diplomats, the singer and actress refined - is only recognized masterpieces, and the glory of models sometimes do not yield to the famous artists themselves.
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«We were interested to find out this is related to the work when the work is the history of man, the story of his fate, - says curator Maria Gadas. - Because it is obvious that the attitude to work, when we know the history, it is changing, and we're trying to find the features of what we know about him: his fortune or misfortune is his. "
"Every great artist, even if he paints flowers, always draws its own image" - said Jean Cocteau. This phrase echoes the French poet discovery which made the theater critic Nicholas Evreinov when you look at your profile, written by Repin.
"This portrait of a distinctive history, in fact he went to the book" Master of the portraitist, "which was written by Nicholas Evreinov - says the curator Elena Voronina. - He believes that each portrait is very much on the artist who wrote it. He talks about how he sees himself and at the same time - Ilya Repin. "
Boris Snezhkovsky appeared in the house Luba, when he was preparing to issue the publication "Daphnis and Chloe", and has since become a favorite model of the artist. There is also another work Luba-related illustration.
"He was made an order on the free copy of the work of Pierre de Kazim La Bella Simonetta, and he was looking for a model, and the model was a girl, who posed for him several years before Alexander Levchenko," - says Maria Gadas.
In this exhibition priority - the Silver Age, but here and work, written in the second half of the twentieth, such as a sketch of Lyubov Orlova. These paintings can not boast such a rich biography, two hundred years as neighbors, but because their stories are just beginning.
[B]The Voice of Russia
The artist and model. Stories captured on canvas, on display in Moscow
In recent years, Moscow exhibition life is full of events: museum curators and gallery owners, curators and artists try to satisfy the most discerning art lovers. A few days ago in Moscow exhibition, which can surprise even the most jaded viewer.
Kommersant Weekend
"Portrait with history"
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2133228
Proceedings
http://izvestia.ru/news/546236
In the gallery "On Lenivka" told personal stories
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Many artists painted loved ones - his wife, his sister and parents. Exhibition curator Maria Gadas told "Izvestia", that "detective" scenes with seductive mass feeding in the selection of works deliberately avoided, and it is focused on chamber music, family, humane stories.
- We are not interested in sensationalism, and private life, although there are well-known characters: Lyubov Orlova, Ida Rubinstein and others - said Maria Gadas.
By the way, a pencil drawing of a young Lyubov Orlova by Nikolai Sokolov is the inscription: "To my dear Grisha in memory of sweet Lyubochka", made by the author in 1975, after the death of the actress.
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