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Angle Chupyatova ( 6 + )

October 25 - December 22, 2013

In the halls of the gallery "Our artists" will be shown first solo exhibition , which will bring together nearly 40 works of the three museums ( Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Museum of St. Petersburg ), and in twenty private collections. This exhibition can be considered as the opening of the author - a major Russian artist , update the proposal predecessors and tradition in a creative search for suggesting his artistic vision , his perspective .
Leonid Terent'evich Chupyatov was born in St. Petersburg in 1890. He studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, parallel attended private schools Tsionglinskiy , M.Bernshteyna , E.Zvantseva . However, only a familiarity with Kuzma Petrov - Vodkin and his method has helped him define his artistic path .
Chupyatov met with Petrov - Vodkin in the mid -1910s , when the master was working on new ideas about the relationship between color, light , form and space to pursue other artistic expression, when was born the theory of " spherical perspective ." Petrov- Vodkin appreciated the seriousness and thoughtfulness of the student , his interest in theoretical problems of art . Later , while studying under the guidance of a master at the Petrograd State Free Art Studios Arts Academy , formed individual style Chupyatova , develops its own vision of art. In 1926, the Commission on the court , he presented thirty paintings and abstract " way of genuine realism in painting", confirming their specificity. Questions put forward Chupyatovym , were central to the creation of many painters - on the picture plane , the laws of motion in nature and in the image of the properties of the eye and its culture , the methods of observation of objects on the plot.
The value of research conducted by the artist identified Petrov- Vodkin , "What is valuable for me - the extension of the angle of view that is gaining and giving a new point of thinking. Things Chupyatova are a great contribution to our art ... ". Angle took on Chupyatova recognition .

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In a sense, Leonid Chupyatov went further than his teacher. Identifying himself with the audience , which can move freely in the real world and look at things from different angles , the artist materializes on canvas dynamics of visual perception, " admits " the viewer into the picture. ( Works "Composition with red figure ", " Stairs ", " Self-portrait ", " Trampark "). "Painting only receive the correct and healthy life - he wrote in his treatise - when the basis for the development of her will be put in the first place , the law of motion , then the law of relative watching ... Painting completely independently and of course on the way of development reached the formulation and implementation of this law. "
Optically - formal tasks are present in all the still lifes and genre paintings of the artist and always spill over into the thematic , enhancing imagery , support the story . Experiment Chupyatova infinitely diverse, its specific perspective sometimes comes up at the point of equilibrium , creating maximum stress relations and composition of items . The artist explored and opportunities associated with the texture of the painting surface and application method. Thus , with the invention airbrush it in a number of works by using it instead of a brush .

Alexander Borovsky wrote that Chupyatova path - the path alone, and it is especially valuable individual choice against the worsening of the collective consciousness. In the context of a general shift towards social realism , as well as promoting atheism admire not only the continuation of its formal searches in 1930 ( of "Dream ," " Moon over the country " - both in 1936 ), but also a commitment to religious subjects , it is presented the exhibition of works by a series of brilliant 20 - 30s and the last , the most tragic year of life - 1941 .
Following the retreat of the iconography and , in interpreting canonical modernist images he created poignant and exciting faces of the Mother of God , angels, saints and Saviour, with the faith and the gift of a great artist , devout feeling and experiencing the era. The apotheosis of the series was the " Protection of the Mother of God of the besieged city" (1941). Academician DS Likhachev, appreciated artist worried about this picture , he wrote , that it should not divide . She's not gone, today it can see everything.
In the collecting world artist Leonid Chupyatov - one of the most desirable , despite the highly fragmented understanding of it . The exhibition should bring everyone to the integral understanding of his artistic creativity.
The exhibition "Perspective Chupyatova " published scientific catalog . A number of archival material is published for the first time .