"Oil as a measure of eternity"

[Пар-И]

Showcase books Yevgraf Vasilyevich Death "Canvas as a measure of eternity"
April 27 - May 2, 2010
Warning: Opening April 27 at 16.00
From April 27 to May 2, 2010 at the Moscow House of Artists at the Kuznetsk bridge, 11 will be painting exhibition dedicated to the release of a new book by a famous Moscow art critic, journalist and writer Yevgraf Vasilyevich death of his 80-year anniversary.
Eugraph Konchin, Graduate School of Journalism, Moscow State University, since 1961, working at the newspaper "Culture", weekly sanctioning Events artistic life, opening up new names. During this period he wrote some thirty books: artists, the preservation of historical and cultural monuments, museum of contemporary life, the salvation of artistic and historic values of Soviet museums during the Revolution, during the Civil War and World War II.

His new book-album "Canvas as a measure of eternity", consisting of 90 selected fine art articles on the works of artists who have shaped a beautiful layer of the XX century, and continued his form in the XXI century - a kind of chronicle of the acknowledged masters of painting and the names almost unknown to the general public .

"Not about every artist, he is taken to write. All that makes this man comes from the significance of his major qualities: honesty, kindness, ability to see in the artist's personal integrity, which today is not enough" - so in the preface to a new book by art historian E . The death wrote the national artist of Russia, member of the Russian Academy of Arts I. overgrown. He adds: "Eugraph V. Konchin, with whom I'm friends for almost 50 years, has a unique psychological creative flair. Usually critics cling labels to any stylistic direction: impressionism, realism, abstract art. He's got a broad understanding of the creative personality. He writes about artist trying to find the priorities in his natural abilities, not flowing over the tree. The main thing - to define the meaning of the master's. "

Presentation of the book Evgraf death held on the opening day, April 28, 2010, against the background of paintings by V. Popkov, Zurab Tsereteli, E. Bragovskogo, I. Sorokina, D. Zhilinsky, A. Tutunova, A. Surovtseva, V. Glukhova , V. Kalinin, O. Rybnikova, P. Nikonov, Yu Popkov, T. Osokina, I. Orlova, V. Kulakov, and many other great artists, of whom referred to in his collection.
Add to the exhibition of photographs by Yuri Popkov, united by the theme "Artists in the era of change. His portraits of painters, it has made in their workshops, organically fit into the overall exposure. In addition, the opening will be showing a slide show of photographs from the artist's life.

Nataliya Krylova.