Alexei Sokolov and Irina Whitman at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

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Exhibition artists Alexei Sokolov and Irene Whitman ..
 Date: 18.11.2009 - 29.11.2009
Address: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka 25, 3rd Floor

When it comes to the generation of artists whose first exhibition came at the end of 1940 - early 1950's, before the eyes stand slozhnosochinennye paintings of great construction projects of the Soviet Union, a strong flowery painting and enthusiasm of youth, young authors who unwittingly pass on to their canvases. And indeed, the couple Alexei Sokolov and Irene Wittmann - artists sunny and joyful and their earliest painting - written back in the war years, studies of Samarkand and Moscow - already bears the promise of the future of coloristic art.

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Alexei Sokolov in the war was at the front, Irina Whitman - evacuated to Central Asia. After the war, they both start school in Leningrad, was transferred to the workshop AA Osmyorkin, which brilliantly finished: it is in 1948, and he - in 1950. If you embark on the calculations, it turns out that they lived together, and together engaged in painting 150 years!

In a surprising alliance between the two painters were all usual and unusual. Alexei Dmitrievich Sokolov (1912-2004) came from a family of Russian merchants and managers of factories in the province of Penza, Irina Whitman (b. 1916) - a kind of French aristocrats who have been in Russia since the French Revolution. Sokolov - master of subtle color palette, color breathing, fresh as the morning air. Whitman - a charming composer pictures with a lot of actors, whether beautiful or naked juicy fruit in still lifes. Heir peasant roots, admired the purity of light, and an aristocrat who enjoys subtle connection between the characters. Both - the countless members of the Soviet exhibitions of painting, the authors of the paintings that are in the collections of museums throughout the former Soviet Union.
This exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a general principle in two very different artists and the outcome of the joint creative work which has enriched both masters. The exhibition includes paintings by early 1930-1940-ies and pictures 1990-2000-x. They complement the photographs from the archives of the family Sokolova-Whitman. This exhibition - a tribute of respect and gratitude to two modest artists that influenced the work of several generations of painters Russia.

Russia Academy of Fine Arts Web site: http://www.rah.ru/content/ru/section..._activity.html

[Constantine Rupin]

Irina Whitman

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"Crawfish" 1974 x.temp., 81x66