Nikolai Ge in the Tretyakov Gallery

[Konstantin]

Nikolai Ge in the Tretyakov Gallery
TG (Krimsky Val), 19 October 2011 - February 5, 2012

Today at 16:00 at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Krimsky Val, 10, hall № 60-61) will take place on Opening Day, and tomorrow will be open for public exhibition, "What is truth? Nikolai Ge. By the 180th anniversary of the birth. "

The largest exhibition project, represents the work of one of the most significant, unique and emotional artists of the second half of XIX century - Nicholas Gay (1831-1894). The exhibition, which brings together more than 200 works, opens a new perspective on art of the painter, who sought in his art responses to the "eternal questions". Ge appears as the author of the textbook is not only famous historical paintings and portraits, but also innovative in its interpretation of the language and the plastic art of the Gospel cycle, a landscape painter, draftsman outstanding. continue to read here

Exhibition at the scandalous (?) Artist. Pictures collected from various museums and foundations of most of the Tretyakov Gallery are not in the main exhibition. Artist powerful painting a lot, show a large and well-deserved Tretyakov said that it was their "nail the season." Reflects all the stages of creativity is interesting and surprising.

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What a scandal ? Surely many of you know the rest remind you that for the classical image of biblical themes in the classical sense is not absolutely they have been strongly criticizing the church. But criticism was not only the clergy , with the innovation of artistic language and he got on the artistic community .
Let's start .
His romantic Italian period did not seem to me very interesting. A good quality painting of the 19th century , but no more.

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Continuation of the Romantic period.
Lasted 13 years and over a period Italian Last Supper, but in the next release.

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The exhibition has been prepared and perfectly framed.
A department of documents, letters and materials study of paintings.

The promised "Last Supper" from all angles.

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Wanderers are portraits of the period and the main picture of this period, "Peter I interrogating Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof"


Alas, on this today, the most interesting "Good time" lay out tomorrow.

[Konstantin]

What a scandal ? Surely many of you know the rest remind you that for the classical image of biblical themes in the classical sense is not absolutely they have been strongly criticizing the church. But criticism was not only the clergy , with the innovation of artistic language and he got on the artistic community .
Let's start .
His romantic Italian period did not seem to me very interesting. A good quality painting of the 19th century , but no more.

[Konstantin]

Continuation of the Romantic period.
Lasted 13 years and over a period Italian Last Supper, but in the next release.

[Konstantin]

The exhibition has been prepared and perfectly framed.
A department of documents, letters and materials study of paintings.

The promised "Last Supper" from all angles.

[Konstantin]

Wanderers are portraits of the period and the main picture of this period, "Peter I interrogating Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof"


Alas, on this today, the most interesting "Good time" lay out tomorrow.

[Kaffsky]

Сообщение от Konstantin

Nikolai Ge in the Tretyakov Gallery

 
Pictures collected from differentmuseums

This Work (1864 "Florence") came to the Tretyakov Gallery
 
of the permanent exhibition of the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art:

[Konstantin]

Yes, work is done on an exhibition very much.
The most interesting thing left for tomorrow - Passion cycle. As we discussed in our exhibition "Caution: Religion", I looked for someone else from artists condemned the church and for what. And came across the Ge

All the pictures, "Passion" Ghe, which was created in the late works - the 1880-90s, had a difficult fate. They were taken from the exhibitions, prohibited the Church. And painting, "What is truth?" (1890) by order of the Holy Synod, was charged with traveling exhibition a few weeks before its completion. Then she did not go the route of traveling exhibitions in Moscow and did not show up. First of all, shocked the image of Christ: he is totally at odds with the church, and the centuries-old artistic tradition of interpretation of Christ as a human being is perfect, beautiful externally and internally. Tortured, frail Christ, short, in some rags, standing in the shade - it was all mockery way the Son of God

I must admit the picture of this series is good - energy in the first place. See course you need to live, with no screen and a half. But looking at pictures, I suddenly felt an internal protest. I do not agree with this interpretation of the Gospel events and the image of Christ. At some point it became a stop to enjoy the painting (which is already high). Picture beyond the arts.

[Игорь Гурьев]

From the Musee d'Orsay brought a crucifix?

[Kaffsky]

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- Passion cycle.

«Crucifix" (permanent exposition of the Museum d'Orsay, Paris).

 End Master painting, completed after many previous cases in 1894,
 was his favorite work, to which he devoted ten years of creativity.

 He rewrote it 19 times.
 
A long time he could not even find a line in the Gospel, which could be thought of painting.
 First, God was alone, the robbers were not.
 Then they both began to blaspheme Christ.

 But once in the village next to the Pliska brother killed his brother.

 "I ran, - says Nikolay.
 - The murderer was in the house. Stood in the corner. For some reason, completely naked, stretched out,
 He trampled on the ground and kept his feet in a strange way - with his heels apart.
 However, he sobbed and repeated the same word: "Vodice, a little water ...."

 In this ugly man woke up the conscience.

 He remembered me and useful for my Rogue. "

 Then what went on swearing, Nikolai cut. Together with the strip of canvas. In order not to interfere.

And when in 1894 Gay brought the "Crucifixion" at the 22nd traveling exhibition, censorship forbade her to exhibit.
 But Nicholas knew the apartment, where the work first began to attend to the notes of the author,
 and in the future without these notes painters, doctors, government officials, critics, students ...

 Thus, despite the censorship, the picture I saw almost all of St. Petersburg.

 Leo Tolstoy, arrived in Moscow to see displayed at the private studio picture of his friend,
 long regarded it, and then embraced Gay.

 Two old man tears as children ...

 "The first time they saw that crucifixion - penalty, and a terrible punishment," - said Tolstoy.

 Only in the fall of 1903 have already been put to his son Kye "Crucifixion" on display in Geneva, where the picture was a huge success.

1.Crucifix, the Museum d'Orsay, Paris.
2. Christ and the thief, KNMRI, Kiev.
3. The head of the crucified Christ, KNMRI, Kiev.

[Konstantin]

So the "Crucifixion "
By far the most powerful painting in the exhibition.
From her long retreat. It's very interesting to watch the sketches for the painting , to trace the variation of design. The basic contradiction of my vision and interpretation of the Gospel events Ge that he ably portrayed the suffering of pain and fear of man. Tragedy and horror of the moment , underlined commonplace secondary characters. Where is God ? Where is the victory of the spiritual principle ?