Collector Raymond Johnson

[Евгений]

Several interesting ideas about art .. (Cricket Guelphs and Ghibellines).
From the article: "Americans rehabilitate Socialist Realism"
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"..... Created in 2002 by Raymond Johnson's private collection, the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis - the largest collection of Russian art outside Russia: in his fund holds about 16 thousand exhibits - mostly of the Soviet period. The museum has already become famous by making joint projects with the Tretyakov Pathways Russian impressionism (GTG, 2003), "In the tradition of Russian Art" (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 2005). Exhibition in Washington during the summer of 70 thousand people attended .

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"Reflections" - it's 25 paintings by artists, worked for the state, and in their free time to write the social order "for themselves." This explains the high quality of work: "leave" the artists with all the passion is not indulged in ideological and plastic research. This also explains their presence in the collection of Ray Johnson - usually such work does not diverge to museums, and settled in the workshops. Such a workshop and visited by an American collector in the first half of the 90's. Artists parted with his canvases with gratitude to the Americans are not so much for the material (although at the time it was a matter of survival), but for moral support - her while they were not needed.

But for some fifteen years, it became clear that not all so good it was in non-conformism, as not so bad was socialist realism. And after 30 years, perhaps, the opposition official and unofficial art in the Soviet Union will be perceived as struggle Guelphs and Ghibellines. Anyway, one of the pages of the history of the domestic arts - Soviet and tear it can not: indecent, and the book to pieces. In our country there is always the drama of someone willing to repress or to rehabilitate. In this case, certificate of rehabilitation of social realism came from overseas. It's safe - to make sure everything is in place, we definitely need to see your reflection in the mirror of the West. I wonder what the U.S. Socialist Realism is demonstrated for the first time not as a cultural, ethnographic material, as well as art - the similarities between our two countries with regard to the addition of national school of painting, obviously. Artists were brought in almost medieval pattern: they got to school, perfected over the years in the continuing tradition, good living by performing public contracts. But the USSR was the reserve of painting - traditional artists have been preserved in our country to this day, while enjoying the freedom of their American counterparts to drop these thorny venture still in pre-war ........"
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Сообщение от Eugene

.... Collector Raymond Johnson: in my collection of many pictures Tkachev brothers ...

Сообщение от dedulya37

It looks like they where 375 pieces

That's how Russian art of losing ...
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Guelphs and Ghibellines - Wikipedia http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гвельфы