Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Alexander Shevchenko

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24.03-16 05. in the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean (Halls 80-82) exhibition of paintings and graphics by Alexander Shevchenko.
Opening 23 March at 16:00, a press screening at 14:00. Alexander Shevchenko (1883-1948) - painter, teacher - belongs to a constellation of artists, whose work marked the zenith of Russian Art 1910-1930-ies. It works Shevchenko was presented to Stalin as an example of formalism. His anniversary show in April 1933 at the Museum of Fine Arts was suddenly and prematurely closed after 10 days after the opening day without explanation.

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AV Shevchenko received his artistic education at the Stroganov Art School (1898-1907, with a break), Paris (1905-1906) at the Academy R. Julien, and then in the studio E. Carriera. Exhibited in the Salon of Independents (1906). In 1907-1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, along with AV Kuprin, R. Falk, D. Burliuk, was particularly close with Larionov.
In 1910, after the first exhibition of "Jack of Diamonds" at the split left-wing artists and AV Shevchenko joined the group M. Larionov and Goncharova, in 1911 participated in organizing the exhibition "Donkey's Tail. But even then it was noted that AV Shevchenko, stands apart from the group that his works still felt in touch with old traditions and forms of Cubists, Futurists and radiant entered into the picture of a strictly academic building ". In 1913, AV Shevchenko took part in the exhibition "Target", popularized the art of primitives, issued a pamphlet "neo-primitivism. His theory. Its possible. His accomplishments, "Principles of Cubism and other movements in art of all time. He participated in important avant-garde exhibitions «№ 4", "Youth Union", etc. After the revolution, actively worked in the Commissariat of Fine Arts, taught at the 1-X State Free Art Workshops (GSHM), Higher Art, organized the Museum of Artistic Culture. In 1922 he joined the Company "Makovec, in 1926 organized a society" shop painters, from 1932 - Member of the Society of Moscow Artists (MKO).
When leftist artists denied easel art, AV Shevchenko was the defender of the principles stankovizma, defended the tradition of high scenic culture. In the first half of 1920, solving the problem of easel paintings, where everything is subordinated to strict compositional system, he was guided by the legacy of Paul Cézanne.
In the late 1920's - early 1930's the artist again appealed to the primitive, for art Pirosmani, was influenced by the neo-classical European trends, Picasso, Derain, de Chirico, and his work has developed a variant of Art Deco, has been very organic for his talents.
In the last decades of his life, Shevchenko has repeatedly been criticized for "formalism esthete" and exposure to Western European modernism, but he continued to paint, creating landscapes and genre in the spirit of the quiet art. In the late 1930's - 1940's he began to interest the problem of lighting - day and night, reflections of sunlight on trees and people's faces. Instead of conventional pictorial plane in the pictures appeared spatial environment, this softened crisp contours and volumes, the figures in his paintings are not conventionally composed environment, but in particular - surrounded by nature.
An extremely important component of creativity AV Shevchenko was the schedule. He got better in terms of development of graphic techniques of education at the Stroganov Art School, and not by chance from all the many schools, where he studied, the artist most admired precisely Art Institute. At some stages of the schedule becoming a leading example of an early, impressionistic and symbolist period (1906-1910). Significant phenomenon in the work of AV Shevchenko 1930 became his monotyping - a kind of graphic works, when the matrix of glass or metal applied to the image with oil paint, and then made a print on paper.