Useful information .. useful for the attribution of engravings.
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The first online museum of prints appeared in Russia. Presentation of the project, which was organized by the RSL and Company Meat House Borodin, was held yesterday in the main library building in Russia.
In the virtual museum etchings you can see the best works of art made from the RSL, as well as unique works, collected by "Borodin's Meat House" over the past few years and its constituent fund of printmaking.
The project is dedicated to Printsmuseum.ru printed graphics end XIX - first half of XX century.
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From the site of the museum.
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Internet-museum prints - is a unique project dedicated to printed graphics. His exhibit consists of works from the private collection "Meat House BORODIN, the initiator of creation of this museum, and some masterpieces from the collections of the Russian State Library. Created on the Internet, a virtual museum is a wonderful form of presentation of prints: "in real life" is almost impossible to collect as many works of art in one space, and technically this exhibition would have required an incredibly complex work to create the necessary exposure to printmaking terms.
The choice of the Russian-Soviet school of engraving the end XIX - first half of XX century as the first link of the virtual exhibition is not accidental. This period - the heyday of the engraving in general and Soviet prints in particular. As you know, at the turn of XIX and XX century engraving came out of the role of servant in relation to painting, has ceased to carry out reproduction of the problem and become a full, independent art form. It is this kind of art is the main focus of attention and study of our online museum. Its main sections are devoted to techniques of engraving. Here are the galleries etchings, woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs. In each chapter - a detailed account of the artistic and production "methods of these techniques. The most significant set of reproductions of Russian and Soviet artists - VV Mate, VD Falileeva, AP Ostroumova-Lebedeva, AP Shillingovsky, VN Masyutin, DI Mitrokhin, VA Tabor, N. Kupreyanova - provide a visual representation of the different types of prints and stages of development.
On our site you can find short biographies of artists, glossary of key terms and a bibliography. In comments to the images of the texts of the researchers, extracts from letters and memoirs of artists, their colleagues and friends. The site is designed for a wide range of users, it will be interesting to both specialists and those who rarely staying in the world of fine art. Indeed, this kind of art museum, which represents the vast pictorial material is rarely present in conventional displays, and an additional source of information on print graphics and artist-engraver. The search system allows you to find the interesting stuff - the technique, genre, author, historical period. All this gives grounds for believing that our "unrealistic museum is able to really enrich the knowledge and the spiritual world of its visitors. This is precisely his problem.
http://www.printsmuseum.ru/about