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Showcase books Yevgraf Vasilyevich Death "Canvas as a measure of eternity"
April 27 - May 2, 2010
Warning: Opening April 27 at 16.00
From April 27 to May 2, 2010 at the Moscow House of Artists at the Kuznetsk bridge, 11 will be painting exhibition dedicated to the release of a new book by a famous Moscow art critic, journalist and writer Yevgraf Vasilyevich death of his 80-year anniversary.
Eugraph Konchin, Graduate School of Journalism, Moscow State University, since 1961, working at the newspaper "Culture", weekly sanctioning Events artistic life, opening up new names. During this period he wrote some thirty books: artists, the preservation of historical and cultural monuments, museum of contemporary life, the salvation of artistic and historic values of Soviet museums during the Revolution, during the Civil War and World War II.

His new book-album "Canvas as a measure of eternity", consisting of 90 selected fine art articles on the works of artists who have shaped a beautiful layer of the XX century, and continued his form in the XXI century - a kind of chronicle of the acknowledged masters of painting and the names almost unknown to the general public .

"Not about every artist, he is taken to write. All that makes this man comes from the significance of his major qualities: honesty, kindness, ability to see in the artist's personal integrity, which today is not enough" - so in the preface to a new book by art historian E . The death wrote the national artist of Russia, member of the Russian Academy of Arts I. overgrown. He adds: "Eugraph V. Konchin, with whom I'm friends for almost 50 years, has a unique psychological creative flair. Usually critics cling labels to any stylistic direction: impressionism, realism, abstract art. He's got a broad understanding of the creative personality. He writes about artist trying to find the priorities in his natural abilities, not flowing over the tree. The main thing - to define the meaning of the master's. "

Presentation of the book Evgraf death held on the opening day, April 28, 2010, against the background of paintings by V. Popkov, Zurab Tsereteli, E. Bragovskogo, I. Sorokina, D. Zhilinsky, A. Tutunova, A. Surovtseva, V. Glukhova , V. Kalinin, O. Rybnikova, P. Nikonov, Yu Popkov, T. Osokina, I. Orlova, V. Kulakov, and many other great artists, of whom referred to in his collection.
Add to the exhibition of photographs by Yuri Popkov, united by the theme "Artists in the era of change. His portraits of painters, it has made in their workshops, organically fit into the overall exposure. In addition, the opening will be showing a slide show of photographs from the artist's life.

Nataliya Krylova.

[inega]

Par And thank you for the announcement of the exhibition. Pleasantly surprised. I invite all to the opening! I also take part in an exhibition of his modest persona and excitedly waiting for delivery of the directory.

Sincerely, artist Natalia Krylova.

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Eugraph V. Konchin was born in 1930 in the town of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, in the historic old Amur Cossacks. During the war he worked as a water on the farm and electrician in Khabarovsk. In 1945-1947 he studied at the School of Khabarovsk Jung, in 1947 - 1951 he studied at the Annunciation River College. In 1952 he joined the faculty of journalism of Moscow State University named after MV University. It was distributed in the Soviet Information Bureau. This year Eugraph Vasilyevich turns 80!
It should also be noted that for a series of articles devoted to the preservation of monuments of culture and art, Eugraph V., he was awarded the Union of Journalists of the USSR. For a book about Pushkin "Why is your wonderful pencil" received the 1999 Gold Medal of Pushkin. For a series of articles about the artists awarded a medal "worthy" of the Russian Academy of Arts. In the book "My Generation" the highest award of the Russian Academy of Arts - Gold Medal.

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He believes in the individuality of the artist

Eugraph V. Konchin, who was my friend for almost 50 years, has a unique psychological creative flair. Typically, art is tied to the author to some stylistic direction: impressionism, realism, abstract art. He's got a broad understanding of the creative personality. He writes about the artist, trying to find the priorities in his natural abilities, not flowing over the tree. The main thing is to define the meaning of the master's.
Not about every artist he is taken to write. All that makes this man comes from the significance of its main qualities: honesty, kindness, ability to see in the artist's personal integrity, which today is not enough. In their opuses our art critics do not have enough deep personal interest.
E. Konchin clearly understands that the art critic - a man of comprehensive knowledge. For me, such critics as Eugraph V. - art historians. They must determine the stages in the development of our society and seek a place of modern, artist described them in a series of past or present time. Art historian has the right to invent their own "bicycle". Maybe it will be a single wheel, or without a rudder, but it will be his "bicycle".
Eugraph death can not give a picture that you yourself do not close, because internally he understands that I am today in this space. Expanse of the landscape, the space issues of the day, the Russian land, rural Russia, which in one way or another, reflected in the artist. It is very important that he opened himself, opens the artist.
The sense of creativity and understanding Yevgraf Vasilyevich it as an art critic, is that he believes in the individuality of the artist in his personality. Today, in an age of destruction, he stands for creative work.
Modern creative personalities are in a difficult position, because something that they came, they were not satisfied, disappointing. And we the sixties, who believed then that we are artists, coming from the truth Tvardovskogo fact, today we see that all this remains in Thun. In the best case, all torn. Now comes "Glamour", crushing everything around. Failure to understand the meaning of art and its problems the younger generation of artists, committed to the so-called contemporary art, I can understand. To get experience, you must live the same complex life, what was our generation - a generation of children of war. This has affected our work because we are carried in itself all these complexities of life. Today, even following us creative people in confusion. They can not understand what is true, what sense in it and that there are social problems. The artist must solve these problems is not for anyone specifically, but for himself. In order to meet their own time. When I see that the formal methods overshadow social problems, I was disappointed. I close the words of Victor Popkov: "No one is responsible, as an artist for the moral world that surrounds him. If he moves away from the problems of society, he begins to serve not God but Satan. " This is clearly perceives and Eugraph V.. This understanding, as if the state of his own spiritual meaning, reacting to what happens in reality. And the reality is more destructive. He pulls out the artist's embrace of this situation with the fact that he had found a state of freedom, morality.
In the opening days of his did not immediately notice. He modestly goes away or comes to the exhibition, when it is free of spectators. When the Academy of Arts Medal was presented by E. demise of the Academy, he was feeling uneasy, said that he considered himself unworthy. But he, in fact, passed all his life with the artists. He knew our creativity with izmalstva. I believe that in the sense of moral encouragement, we are far, far Eugraph Vasilievich Doda. But this is his greatness. In the words of Pushkin: "The artist himself judge. He is spiritually rise above all that is happening now, based on the postulates of morality. Thus he has always supported us.
Unfortunately, the attitude of the artist to man, nature and society to understand only with age, having lived a great life. How much was made vain efforts and empty work!
Now people like E. Konchin becoming less and less. He does not feel that the inactivation of their moral inner peace. His spirituality is stronger, more noble, above all those around this person.
I. overgrown
People's Artist of Russia, Academician of Russian Academy of Arts

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Strange belated presentation of the "new" books. The book is interesting, a collection of interviews with contemporary Soviet and Russian artists, as well as articles written Efgrafom Vasilyevich death for the newspaper "Soviet Culture" - "Culture" for more than 30 years.
But the book a year, it was published in mid-2009 published "Painting-Info str. 1-ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 20, ISO. Sci. CX, tel. (495) 250-51-25, where it can buy.
The book is interesting, with illustrations. It will be interesting to see the picture in real.

PS is highly recommended to buy while you can. Circulation is not specified, but I doubt that more than 1000 copies.

PPS I especially recommend this book to get the APR-I. There is an article about Anatoly Zykov, "Pushkin - not a commercial issue" on page 100 (ie, interviews). A little about Clara Kalinicheva, p. 102. And the article about Victor Popkov, p. 230.

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This complimentary! I'll try to make a photo from the opening.

Sincerely, artist Natalia Krylova.