Creativity DK Mochalskogo, reflecting the country during a pivotal era of the Great Patriotic War and the "thaw", allows to consider the phenomenon of the Soviet art of the late 1940-1960-ies. The context of the exhibition is wider than the story of the recognized classics of socialist realism.
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The first museum retrospective of the famous painter and graphic mid-twentieth century, timed to 100 anniversary of his birth. Dmitry Mochalsky (1908-1988) - People's Artist of the USSR, member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, State Prize Winner of the RSFSR Repin - was at the epicenter of many historical events. He spent his childhood in the capital in the family of a soldier, in 1930 for "non-proletarian" origins of the future artist was expelled from the institute, but later restored. At an early age he had a chance to observe the revolutionary events in Petrograd, in his mature years - to become a witness and participant in the Great Patriotic War. In an effort to capture his era truly, sincerely believing in the social and spiritual ideals, the painter went to where the most important events unfolded, whether the release of Berlin, or the development of virgin lands. In 1961 Mochalsky, the only party member among the secretaries of the Union of Artists of the USSR, headed by its Moscow branch. One of the organizers of the exhibition of the legendary 30-year anniversary MOSKh, he first took on the wrath of Nikita Khrushchev, who was accompanied in the Manege.
Painter were characterized by fidelity to nature and the ability to make important, discarding unnecessary details, an approach to art, he took from his teachers, and later handed over many students. While a student artist absorbed and organically combined traditions of Moscow and St. Petersburg /Leningrad school. After School Memory 1905 (Moscow, 1929), in parallel with whom attended classes D. Kardovsky in the studio KP Chemko, he graduated from the Academy of Arts (Leningrad, 1936) in the first post-revolutionary release. Among his teachers were outstanding masters - AD Goncharov, N. Radlov, VA Tabor, K.S.Petrov-Vodkin. Principles of Russian plenerizma with special attention to the genre, which he handed AI Savinov, formed the basis of individual style DK Mochalskogo.
Continuing poetic line Russian plein air painting, the artist depicted the beauty of everyday life contemporaries. It is through this Mochalsky remained in the memory of spectators romantic period of "thaw". Master fundamentally avoided false pathos and pompous interpretations adopted in the official Stalinist art. For the natural and special ease inherent in his paintings, was a stubborn preliminary work. The bright palette, virtuoso drawing skill to arrange the composition and color accents, the interest in color and light and medium complement the central theme - the continuous search for the true hero's life. That was a painter for a simple man, impressed in the moments of labor and rest.
More than half a century Mochalsky gave the Moscow Art Institute. VISurikova, where he was invited in 1937 from Leningrad IE Grabar "to strengthen the school picture. Professor Surikovsky Institute (since 1950), the head of the department of painting, he died at the workplace. Deliberately focusing on personal style, the master actually trained an entire generation of artists of the sixties. Among his many current students of the classics: N. Andronov, OV Bulgakov, E. Zverkov, BN Nemensky, P. Ossowski, M. Savitsky, VF Stazharau, AP and SP Tkachev, etc.
Heritage DK Mochalskogo is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, many museums in Russia and the CIS, in a number of private collections.
Anniversary Retrospective included around 100 paintings and drawings from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the International Confederation of Unions of Artists and the author's family. Well known are stored in the Tretyakov Gallery paintings "Victory. Berlin. May 9, 1945 (1947), "Return from the demonstration (They saw Stalin)" (1949). In a single cycle formed canvases devoted to the virgin lands, among them: "The extended explanation" (1954), "Chamber tractor," "Girlfriends," "New settlers (from the tent into a new house)" (all - 1957), "Day off" (1967), "Trinity" (1975, all - TG). In the graphics section interesting portrait sketches and travel sketches made in the USSR, Western Europe, Vietnam, as well as sketches and paintings by the artist's notebooks.