"CITY. PERSON. DESTINY ... "exhibition of artists from St. Petersburg and Moscow in the CHA from July 5

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Thus, 9 out of St. Petersburg, 8 Muscovites, and Gabriel Lokshtedt from Munich. Academicians and Corresponding Member, folk and honored artists of the first postwar generation that breathed freedom of peaceful time in the period of apprenticeship and creative development.
What they have in common? The unity of views on the world art and culture. All of them are representatives of modern art, developing a traditional Moscow and St. Petersburg-Leningrad "school".
Here, he writes about one of the exhibitors, muralist, Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Kondurov (St. Petersburg). «Today, the school is experiencing a certain crisis. The rapidly evolving in the direction of current trends, art has lost many precious qualities, acquired over centuries of history, experience, brought from the past by our predecessors, was unclaimed. This deficit is already becoming visible in the world of art. The interaction of artists - is an attempt to understand his creative method, working closely with colleagues whose opinion you trust ».

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But since the other exponents, Ivan Lubennikov (Moscow) - painter and muralist, national artist of Russia , Academician of Russian Academy of Arts , - answered the question of the famous Moscow art critic William Meiland ( from the book " I.Lubennikov . Work in architecture. Painting" - should be say that the conversation is held much earlier than a book - in the already distant 1998 ): " ... many artists refuse to traditional materials (canvas , paint) , and from itself, as they say, " conservative art ". Do you have enough conventional means to express themselves in the modern world? There is a temptation to play in conceptual or in any fashion still playing? I.Lubennikov : If we look at art as a series of innovations and inventions , then the artists and inventors are right and all about what's new techniques and unusual materials . But I basically alien to the momentary . For me, traditional materials - the most reliable . "