From November 5, 2009 in the staterooms of the Scientific Research Museum of Russia Academy of Arts (University Embankment, 17. Tel: 323-64-96) in the month, an exhibition "Self-portrait and a portrait of the artist. XVIII-XXI century. "
Presented to it for more than a hundred paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures demonstrate not only the development of the genre's self-portrait, but also introduced to little-known public gallery of the beautiful portraits that are stored in a museum.
Self-portraits of outstanding Russian painters of the XIX century - PV Basin, head of the class portraiture AG Warnecke, IK Makarova, as well as those who have not received wide acceptance (FM Guveniusa, VI Shterenberg, MN Chivileva), allow a little glimpse into the inner world of young artists.
Skill and maturity of different portraits of artists - fellow workshop. Thus VARNEK wrote a talented engraver, NI Utkin, later to be famous throughout Europe and became a member of the Academies of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Antwerp, Dresden, author of picture gallery of outstanding contemporaries - the poets and writers. Portrait painter Alexander Ivanov (father of the famous Alexander Ivanov, author of The Coming of the Messiah ") in 1824 made a famous artist and a wonderful draftsman, IS Bugaevskaya and grateful. Excellent exquisite miniatures on bone, with which the viewer watches a young AI Melnikov - future venerable architect.
Unique is a great teamwork "Statement of nature in the workshop IE Repin Academy of Fine Arts' 1899-1903 gg. Who wrote the disciples Repin's studio to sketch BM Kustodiev. On the canvas depicted apart from Elijah Yefimovich, FA Malyavin, AP Ostroumov, IS Kulikov, Ivan Bilibin, etc. The interior of this same workshop, but in the late 1930's - the painting AP Zarubina - Workshop II Brodsky.
XX century is characterized by the works of EE Moiseenko, as well as the works of his disciple, VS Mikhailova, paintings of the sixties, GP Egoshina (one of the members of the group "11"), contemporary painter in St. Petersburg, AV Khachatryan, a portrait of the sculptor Levon Lazarev.
Sculpture before labor VA Beklemisheva, RR Bach, MG Manizer, AT Matveeva, MA Kerzina.
23 and 24 November 2009 against the backdrop of this large exhibition, representing not only the museum's funds, but also active in St. Petersburg artists, will be self-titled international scientific seminar.
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