The Moscow Chekhov's Cottage opened an exhibition avant-garde artist Lev Bruni
17:46, 29 October 2009
In Moscow opened an exhibition of the famous Petrograd avant-garde artists of the last century Lev Bruni. On the eve of the exhibition, which takes place in the so-called "Chekhov's Cottage, a presentation of a new book about the painter -" A Biography of the artist Lev Bruni.
The book, published especially for the 115 anniversary of his birth, contains about 500 color reproductions and photographs. A story about the creative ways the artist is based on documentary evidence from the family archive Bruni, as well as from the Department of Manuscripts of the Tretyakov Gallery and the oldest Russian archives and libraries, the press release.
In Russia, Lev Bruni, was known not only as a virtuoso watercolor painting, but also as a tireless inventor, as well as a host of legendary "Apartment number 5" - literary and artistic circle, which is visited by artists, and Chagall, Tatlin, poets, M., Balmont and Mayakovsky, composer Lurie et al
In addition, he played a party to such polar exhibit program as a "Shop" Tatlin and Makovets. " But for all its avant-garde graphic artist and architect, Bruni was the heir of the classical tradition - in his family had several generations watercolourists Sokolov and artists and architects Bruni. For the connection of such contradictory qualities of art historian Alexander Benois called Bruni "academic futurist.
The example of his biography can be traced almost all the crucial stage of development of Russian art of the past century. First - Academy, first Petersburg and then Paris. Then - infatuation "Charms of Mannerism," so naturally during the Silver Age. In addition, the artist deals with pleasure radical search for Cubism, experimenting with form and texture.
From the Revolution he went to Siberia, where, being "under Kolchak, openly express their anti-Bolshevik views. And then safely returned to Petrograd, and even some time working in the Department of Fine Arts Narcompros.
In the early 1920's Lev Bruni, with his family at the invitation Favorskogo moved to Moscow, where he headed the first graphic, and later monumental workshop VKhUTEMAS-VHUTEINa, which brought a galaxy of bright students.
As noted by critics, Bruni was able to penetrate the very essence of things, and so the circle of his subjects: childhood, motherhood, seascapes, nature - a circle of eternal existential fact deprived of pathos, but full of dignity and harmony. This should not reduce his work to a quiet "family" as well as innovative and experimental inherent temperament of the master himself, evident even in its rough outline. Thus, Bruni was one of the few artists who freely use the "dangerous" red paint without fear of the color activity violate the compositional balance or make any inaccuracy in the picture.
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