We opened the exhibition on the Crimean Val Alexander Deineka curious name. How to assure the organizers, the artist himself, it would probably have liked. Line "work, build and do not whine!" Spied one of the posters Deineki. And so now titled exposition, consisting of paintings, drawings, sculpture, graphic arts and mosaics of Alexander Deineki.
All this wealth was brought on the Crimean shaft of the picture gallery of the Kursk. Deineka, Perm State Art Gallery, Russian Museum and private collections. A few paintings literally removed from the walls inside the Tretyakov Gallery and renovated specially for the exhibition.
If you agree with the view that some artists do not just write, but to create images of his time, Alexander Deineka just one of them. Moscow, for example, simply required the artist to its architectural business cards. He participated in the design of the main building of Moscow State University on Lenin Hills, pavilions VDNH, the Moscow metro. Memories of the Soviet era to materialize on his canvases. And not only in Russia. West, thoroughly examining the domestic avant-garde, all with great attention refers to the Soviet Socialist Realism. And the first in this series - Alexander Deineka, successor of the avant-garde traditions in new soil.
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The Soviet artist created a series of images and symbols have targeted more than one generation (not in vain reproductions of works Deineki - frequent guests of school textbooks). The main motivations - sport, work, aviation. The main characters - the workers, football players, miners and countless airplanes. The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, there are the usual work: the young "future pilots" and examining frozen in the sky plane, or the defenders of Sevastopol, catching courageously facing death. And there is no metropolitan audience had seen the restored "The Cossacks" and brought from Kursk "Footballer", who represented Russia at the Venice Biennale two.
According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Alexander Deineka was a great optimist, who believed that life is worth only go forward and fight for their happiness. In general, work, build, and do not whine. Heroes Deineki literally breathe strength and confidence that whatever they do - down into the mine, went to battle, or participated in the relay. Painter equally zhizneutverzhdayusch depicting Parisian cafe (Dejneka traveled a lot and, incidentally, was familiar with European art) or lyrical still-lifes with dried flowers. And even the artist paints are incredible energy. Just look at his collective farm in poppy-red dress, riding a bicycle against a background of emerald-green forests.
FEDOR ASTAFYEV
18/03/2010
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Work, build, and not whine! "- A phrase from a famous poster of Alexander Deineki 1933 gave its name to a large exhibition of his paintings, drawings, sculptures, marking the 110 anniversary of the artist, which opened in the Crimean Val.
The largest of the modernist socialist realists, energetic by the magazines "Give," "Bezbozhnik barre" and creator of mosaics from a series of "Day of the Soviet Union" on station "Mayakovskaya, singer Stakhanovites and monumental athletic torsos and illustrator of children's books and sports fan, Alexander Deineka was the ideal bridge between the art of past centuries and the future. If Malevich declared: "... for me, comrade aviators, swim in the abyss, I installed the semaphores of Suprematism", then Dejneka populate this suprematic abyss very real characters. Worker from the truck, footballers, athletes, Komsomol and other fleeing heroes. They hover in the weightless space created by the artist. And soar not only people, shops and railway depot, and even rocks. On the canvas in 1932 with the expressive title "In the air" in the clouds and the plane flies, and it seems that even a rock. Earth is not visible at all. This "separation" from the laws of terrestrial gravity, as a powerful movement, running, flying - to the finish, goal, to the sun, appear as a symbol of liberation from the shackles of history. But it is also clear that all those flying for the ball players that have unfolded in the dash and march muscular girls resemble figures from the frescoes and paintings Deineko admired artists of the Renaissance. And flying them some very renaissance spirit. It is a strange connection - Supremacist, fractured space and powerful figures soaring, gravity and lightness - is fascinating to dizziness. No wonder this modernist among the most important for a teacher named Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky.
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Even more interesting that the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery allows you to discover how to "withdraw" the word Deineki in contemporary art. Well, about that of Deineka, as if from Gogol's "Overcoat", came out of our "sixties" with their "severe style" and the cult of simplicity and sincerity, we all know. But the current exhibition can be seen for the first time after years of restoration of the huge canvases: "The Cossacks" (1939-1940), "Battle of the Amazons" (1947), "Nikitka - the first Russian Squirter" (1940), "Bather" (1951). In these huge piece of cloth that resembles a little of flights awake the previous decade. Flight Nikitka - in fact, a mortal leap, and he, with outstretched wings, like the crucified. Rapture in battle, nevsamdelishnaya ferocity and beauty of these works - a straight road to cinematic blockbusters.
Generally cinematic works Deineki simply striking. Not only that, he draws figures of athletes, gymnasts in very complex ways. He likes to deploy movement in different phases. We can say - as a monumental frieze band, and you can - as a reel.
Today, his art is regarded not only as an example of the artist-socialist realists, but as a master of "alternative" modernism of the twentieth century. But one thing is clear: the alternatives offered by today's audience Deineka, much richer than we are accustomed to expect from the singer's bright future.
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