In the State Tretyakov Gallery, in the Engineering building opened an exhibition of paintings known schedule, Kravchenko, who had never exhibited ...
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in the Engineering building of the Tretyakov Gallery opened an exhibition "Alex Kravchenko. Painting, Graphics, dedicated to 120 th anniversary of the wizard. The exhibition presents the artist's paintings, which he was renowned graphic illustrator, nobody showed.
The fact that Alexei Kravchenko (1889-1940) was a master of vivid and emotional, demonstrated by his well-known graphic works. He illustrated by Pushkin, Gogol and ETA Hoffmann, "Till Eulenspiegel", it seems, has always published with his images. Graphics school Kravchenko conventionally called emotional and romantic as opposed to the school Vladimir Favorsky, rational and philosophical. The famous Soviet critic James Tugendhold wrote about them: "If Tabor in his engravings of the sculpture, then Kravchenko first" painting ". And even if in black and white woodcuts, which bar cruel and contrasting, Alexei Kravchenko able to achieve its picturesqueness, his oil paintings to be picturesque "in the box.
Early works by Alexei Kravchenko, the exercises at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the pensioner's trips to Italy, the style more or less adjacent to the works miriskusnikov. This lilac-gray landscapes of the northern villages (one of them received a prize Levitan) and Italian terracotta types. World War I, to which he was called as a correspondent for the revolution, the service in the Saratov Museum of Art, where he was assigned the Commissar Lunacharsky, had no effect on the subjects and manner of works by Alexei Kravchenko. This artist was not avant-garde, but was also a realist, he does not seek to transform nature, but have not followed it blindly, just by selecting your style is not even a world view, he did not change his life.
It is for this - to paint on, and as he wants - since the early 1920's Alexei Kravchenko officially engaged only in the engraving. Scenic orders from the Soviet era, he did not take ( "Dnieper" remained etched only in the prints), paintings in the exhibition did not give. He wrote only for himself and his family - pink-mauve bathers on the background of greenery, flowers in vases, India, which visited the years of study. Alexey Kravchenko did not enter into conflict with the Soviet regime, was a member of all the provisions of artistic unions, received a trip to Paris, Italy, New York. There, of course, seen pictures of their Western contemporaries. "The Indian tale" 1920 - a "meeting" with Paul Gauguin, "Before the Mirror" in 1929 - with Henri Matisse, "The Kiss" in 1929 - with Marc Chagall, "Girls" in 1932 - with the Soviet Ost. But the impression from all the "isms" of modernism limited to one or two works, then Alex Kravchenko always come back to itself - the symbolist timeless girls and boats and bluish-lilac tones.
All paintings by Alexei Kravchenko kept his daughter Natalia; painting was first shown a decade after the death of the artist, the exhibition in 1973. So come, as the State Tretyakov Gallery opened in the exhibition, this painting did not show a long time - here focused works from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Gorky in Moscow, the artist's family and private owners.
04.09.2009, 08:17
Exhibition Alexei Kravchenko in GTG
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