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Open again the subject (as if not a Pandora's box), since the emergence of new circumstances.

The Sword in the picture Glazunov not grown!

The main patron artist demonstrates the spirit of volnolyubiya and rebelliousness

 
By day the city cultural institutions prepare gifts - premieres, exhibitions. Gallery Glazunov, whose flagship status is defined by topographic location - kilometer from the Kremlin, too,

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congratulates the city - the entrance to the gallery in the City Day free, moreover, opened the fourth hall, closed on special measures after the June visit of Prime Minister Putin. Head of Government was dissatisfied with the size and thickness of the sword in the hand of Prince Oleg's painting of 1972 (oil on canvas, collection of the Tretyakov Gallery). Author paintings Ilya Glazunov has promised to correct. It took almost three months.

Already Volkhonka Street at the entrance to the gallery, meets lightbox - glass advertising showcase. Glazunov Gallery invites you to the permanent display of a fragment of the most criticized Putin pictures. Sword on it has not grown. Unheard in the vicinity of the Kremlin gene volnolyubiya displayed so brazenly - the best invitation. Come!

Painting "Prince Oleg and Igor" - on the third floor. With it, nothing happened, and that reasonable conservatism national fine art. Sword of Oleg's large-scale canvas 1988 "Eternal Russia", where Prince Oleg - one of the hundreds of characters, too, remains the same length, although there is an elongation absolutely would affect the overall composition. The kings and saints of the scrolls in the hands of mourning in Russia, poets, writers and public figures of various epochs heat candles, Trotsky and a royal crown in the hands of driving forward the horses, carrying Stalin in the impenetrable darkness, shining over the Kremlin two-headed eagle (it's in 1988), Leo Tolstoy with Masonic star on his chest surrounds a column of the saints, thinkers and collaborators. Skeletizirovanny unnamed people freezes in the icy snow-covered ground, over all is the glow of the fire - the result of careless handling of fire writers, poets and statesmen. This polemical painting, too, raised questions of the President and left untouched.

Rector of the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Glazunov - icon painter in the world and the law. Crept to the end of XVI century in the spirit of Russian iconography allegory (and a short slim sword - pure allegory of the state is weak) will be driven out of his own art. Old thin and short swords in the hands of statesmen, painted in the 70's and 80's, does not lengthen or peroxide on pruning. They - in the past, this page is bitter history. Swords, who painted under Putin, will be thick and large. According to staff the gallery, Ilya is working on sketches of the new version of the picture "Prince Oleg and Igor" (2010, oil on canvas, private collection?). Paroxysmal attack humiliation of the supreme power, secular and heavenly, who are full of apocalyptic paintings of Glazunov on Russia in recent decades, will be overcome in time, determined only inspiration. Meanwhile, one of the principal patron of artists, who formalized the interiors of the Kremlin and Russian embassies abroad, demonstrates the spirit of rebelliousness and volnolyubiya - Prince Oleg in all variants of the picture remains with the original short and thin with a sword. This is a sign of the weakening of self-censorship, while growing in artistic circles: the artist now has the right to secretly work on the state order. A public - constantly demonstrate its author's will. So who prepared a gift to the city is better?

So, Glazunov, it is not so simple. And then we broke the spear ...