Treasures of the Tretyakov go to Helsinki

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In the repository of the Tretyakov Gallery boils work - restoration, packing and preparation for transportation. At the exhibition in Helsinki sent 130 pieces of Russian art salon late XIX century.
In the minds of many of our viewers had the rather one-sided picture of the painting XIX century. Because it is difficult to understand these sources of asceticism Perov, Kramskoy, Marxism, if you do not imagine that there were their opponents, "- says the exhibition curator Tatiana Karpova.
One of the last unpackaged items - a portrait of the wife Tretyakov. In interior painting should not look harsh reality. Artists, academics consciously ignored the dark side of reality, and singing hymns to the aesthetic beauty - women, landscapes, oriental tales.
The phrase "prisoners of beauty" came from the same place - from the XIX century. Somehow or more ironic - "carefree artists" - the salon painters said itinerants. "There was a struggle, the struggle of these aesthetic trends. And, actually, it gave the artistic life of Russia, Europe, sharpness, diversity", - tells Tatyana Karpova.
XX century paintings hung on Briullov, Semiradsky and Makovsky labels "bourgeois", "philistinism". And not spared. Pictures gave away, resell it, hid in cellars. In the best case - in museum storage.
Payload lift - 10 thousand pounds. Within five days of painting from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery drained and drained in the fourth floor to the first.
Only breathable fabric. Mikalenta of one hundred percent cotton. Next nutrosil - with 50%content of viscose. Carton and two days in a climatic van. Temperature is strictly 19. The first city in Europe, which will see the "Prisoners of beauty", previously only exhibited in Russia - is Helsinki.
"We should not forget that Finland was until 1917 part of Russia. Cultural exchange between the countries was very intense. Besides, I have no doubt that in Helsinki, the exhibition will understand more because salon paintings of the period - the phenomenon of international, pan-European . So write everywhere, "- says Jeanne Gallen-Kallela-Siren, director of the Helsinki City Museum.
"Prisoners of Beauty" - only the second of five exhibitions to the Tretyakov Gallery is planning for five years to submit to the City Museum Helsinki.
(BBC News)