Alexander Kedrin

[Люси]

In the summer of 1959, I was in Moscow at the U.S. exhibition in the park "Sokolniki". I first saw Jackson Pollock, Yves Tanguy , Arshile Gorky and De Kuininga . The exhibition not only shocked me , but interested . I decided that the climate is warming in the USSR , and the Impressionists now no one is in an uproar.
At the time I moved to 5th year Republican Art School named Benkov . Our teacher of art history Irina Ignatieff oriented us on Russian Peredvizhniki . About French as "new" painting she responded with profound contempt : "From these Gauguin Van bourgeoisie Soviet artist should stay away ."
Exposition hall at the Tashkent House of Cinema suggested Malik Kayumov - Uzbekfilm director and old friend of mine . All participants were about 20 . Venia Akudin Sasha Abdusalyamov Volodya Burmakin Sultan Burhanov , Marik Konik , Sasha and Yura Kedrin Jungvald - Khil'kevich . It's been 52 years old, but I remember very well and "Portrait of the red-haired boy" Jura Khilkevich written by Van Gogh , and " Cezanne " still lifes Akudina and Konica , and his work - "Portrait of Father ", written by palette knife " by Maurice de Vlaminck ," and landscape " by Matisse ." In general - the usual amateurish student experiences.