together with all and of itself
- 30.10.09 10:36 --
Velimir Moyst
This artist was fond of saying that instead of blood in his veins watercolor. About how the metaphor is not at odds with reality, can be judged on a personal exhibition "Watercolors state. Art Leo Bruni, which opened in the exhibition hall of "Chekhov's Cottage.
He became the heir and successor of several artistic dynasties: "Bruni, Briullov, Sokolova were my ancestors. He managed to turn to visit the academics, miriskusnikom, futurist, socialist realists. However, none of the incarnation is not decisive for his creativity. Lev Bruni all involved - and no that does not sink into his head, preferring to move on its own trajectory. Variability Role should not be misled: this figure - one of the most important in Russian art of the twentieth century. I achieved this status is not least thanks to the chamber genres - children's and family portraits, natural landscapes, book illustrations.
Samples of all listed and form the basis of the retrospective exhibition, hosted by the gallery "G.O.S.T.
The exhibition is dedicated to 115 anniversary of the author, and (not least) to leave a large monograph Andrew Sarabyanova "The Biography of the artist Lev Bruni. In this work not only sets out the curriculum vitae and played numerous pictures - probably the first creative way Leo Alexandrovich is not presented as a set of paradoxical turns of a career, but as a logical, due to domestic and external causes, evolution. Here are many living histories, documented family legends, excerpts from memoirs of contemporaries, and records of the main, perhaps, the commentator, the artist's life - his wife Nina Konstantinovny, daughter of the poet Balmont.
In a few words this long and fascinating history does not tell, so pay attention primarily to the exhibition.
It is assembled from private collections, but is dominated by works from the family archives. Numerous descendants of the clan Bruni has works no worse than those that are stored in museums. In any case, they can be adequately display the "general line", followed by the hero of the exhibition. This "silent poetry" is not so quiet, if you look: the serenity of the subjects lies the real author's drive. Lev Bruni did not spend long avant-garde, but those lessons never forgotten, though, and did not follow them literally.
Discarding ideology of changing the world, he moved deeper into the world familiar, as if all the familiar and even slightly overexposed - in order to re-make it interesting and important.
On this super-objective is to remember, looking at the portraits of the sleeping children, the types of Sudak, Zhizdra, Luga, Optina, the sketches of animals in a zoo or on illustrations for "Don Quixote". Do not deceive anyone idyllic veil: the artist is far from plants, for example, the German Biedermeier, designed to glorify the sentimental family comfort and beauty of nature. He has, rather, looked through the approval of some existential principles - such as family as a group of like-minded. Even the landscapes are internally conflicted, by harmonizing their serious efforts, visible only to the discerning eye.
Apparently, Bruni deliberately sacrificed many external effects, to demonstrate: the life - no sugar, of course, and not a carnival, but it was not nightmare. With it you can "cooperate", and find joy in it, to extract lessons from it. This nekazenny optimism born of a series of misfortunes and strokes of fate (see the monograph referred to), and was, perhaps, the principal, that the artist could and wanted to pass around
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