Exhibition of Paul Dmitrievich Shmarovav in the halls of the Art Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli

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Exhibition of works of Paul Dmitrievich Shmarova in the halls of the Art Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli is held within the Year of France in Russia. It is organized by Joelle Garcia, and Organización Association "Franco-Russian Dialogue" supported by the Russian Academy of Arts.
For the first time in Russia 90 works exhibited PD Shmarova (paintings, drawings, sketches) from the collection of well-known French collector Joel Garcia, and also belonged to the artist objects and arhivy.Ekspozitsiya provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the creative biography of the artist, to assess the influence on his work of French culture , which became in 1924 his second home.

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At the end of the last century, an opportunity to learn about the many Russian artists who emigrated from Russia in 1920, as the topic for many years was taboo. One of the most talented painters, whose name is now returning to their homeland, is Paul D. Shmarov.
P. Shmarov (real name - Paul Shmyrov) was born in 1874 in Voronezh in a peasant family. In 1893, Paul went to study in a free drawing school LG Solovyov, who focus on drawing and sketches in the open air. In 1894. He was admitted to the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In the workshop, led by I. Repin, he became acquainted with the future well-known artists - F. Malyavin, Kustodiev, A.Ostroumovoy-Lebedeva, etc.
In 1899, a graduate now at a historical theme, "Woe to the vanquished" P. Shmarov receives a gold medal, the official title of "artist" and overseas pensionerstvo (state scholarship to study abroad). The artist traveled to Vienna, Rome, Florence, Venice and Munich, where a few weeks together with Borisov-Musatov at school artist Anton Aschbe. In 1904, together with Kustodiev discovered Spain.
The artist exhibits his work on "Spring salon" Academy of Arts. From 1900 to 1910. He made a series of portraits of aristocrats, industrialists, prominent figures in science and culture, as well as portraits of Nicholas II and members of the imperial family, for which he was awarded the title of court painter. P. Shmarov wrote great genre and battle paintings, decorative panels, making drawings for newspapers, works for the theater, illustrated works of Nekrasov, Pushkin, the historian and archaeologist Zabelina. In his monumental canvas "The Battle of Borodino" successfully combined lush palette, the accuracy of the figure, composition and historical accuracy.


In 1916, P. Shmarova elected academician of the Academy of Arts. That same year, commissioned by the publisher Suvorina artist goes to the front, where do 30 paintings on military theme. His works are published in many publications. In 1917 he participated in the first exhibition of paintings, sketches and sketches of the Fund AIKuindzhi, and in 1919 - the first free all-Russian exhibition of works of art.
In early 1923, Shmarov leaving Russia to Rome, then at the end of 1924 settled in Paris. Focusing on order, painted portraits, among them - portraits Chaliapin and Serge Lifar, creates a lot of landscapes with the bather or a young peasant woman in Russian costume, steeped in nostalgia for their native land, as well as numerous still lifes.
The first solo exhibition was held in the gallery Charpentier in 1928, on which the Luxembourg Museum acquired his painting "Bathing". He participates in exhibitions of Russian art in Paris, as well as in the cities of Germany, Britain, Belgium, Holland, Argentina and Yugoslavia. By 1939 exhibits his paintings in the salons of French artists, works for the theater. Financial difficulties are often forced the artist to pay for housing patterns.
His wife - Olga Vinogradova, former wardrobe mistress of the Bolshoi Theater. For instance, she made the costume for the role of Chaliapin's Boris Godunov.

During the Second World War, they moved to Boulogne-Biyyankur, where both were active parishioners of the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas. In 1946, the Union of Soviet patriots organized a Paris exhibition in honor of the Victory ", which was attended by P. Shmarov. He was very homesick, but died without seeing her. Buried at the cemetery Pierre Grenier Boulogne-Biyyankure.
P. Shmarov left France a great artistic heritage that combines the Russian academic tradition with art deco. In 1955, his widow and friends held a retrospective exhibition at the gallery Charpentier. After the death of Olga's work remaining dispersed to different kollektsiyam.V exhibition program - screening of the documentary "Paul Shmarov" (directed by Nicolas Tihomiroff) 2010g.V September exposition of works of P. Shmarova opened in Voronezh Museum of Art INKramskoy - on home of the artist. It will be complemented by works from the collections of the museum itself.
Exhibition of works of Paul Dmitrievich Shmarova gives us a unique opportunity to come into contact with the work of this talented author and an idea of his multi talent.

The exhibition runs to 22 August 2010.

Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts. Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery. Moscow, Prechistenka, 19
 
http://www.rah.ru/content/ru/exhibit...-14-46-07.html

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I personally really like the work Shmarova. Here's a little tongue of nekazennym held a retrospective exhibition of the artist and what he is:

When some of the artist Paul Shmarova called "Russian Renoir, but life in a French expatriates had not brought him loud glory.
When young nugget from Voronezh, was among the students of the Imperial Academy of Arts, it was intended for a brilliant career. Repin himself, who taught in the institution painting, was generous in his praise Shmarova talent, however, praise becomes quite ambiguous: «Shmarov goes forward, in which illiterate stupid boy sitting a great artist. God grant that it is not crazy like some and not stop early in its development, which is very often the case with cultured natures. But what warmth, integrity, softness, flexibility in his sketches! How many impressions and grandeur in his designs! » No less insightful was Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, classmate and good friend Shmarova written as something in the letter that he « very easily falls into mannerism ».
That mannerism, even a virtuoso, was something of a leitmotif for the current retrospective exhibition.
Almost all of these works (there are about nine dozen) created in France, where Paul Shmarov left Russia since 1924. At home left much of what has been done before: a great part of his doemigrantskogo period we gain in our regional museums. For a long time they were kept in the storerooms (artistic heritage "uezzhantov" publicity was not accepted). Today this issue is different, but unconditional hits even "local" work Shmarova did not become .
Whether to underestimate the inertia, or pieces of music that the author really falls short of masterpiece ...
Introducing his Paris period suggests that the second more accurate. Although the collector Joel Garcia, who owns all that is shown in the exhibition, certainly does not think so. He has 40 years hunting out and buying up canvases and drawings of his favorite artist, eventually becoming a fan shaped. Creativity Paul Shmarova he promoted tirelessly - first at home in France, and now in Russia. From Moscow, an exhibition is planned to take in native Shmarova Voronezh, where the exhibition will complement the work of the local museum.
If he showed early in his career signs of genius, the more signs they did not get. It's strange now to know that at the time Paul Shmarov walked in the issuance of the Academy of Fine Arts of his fellow student Philipp Malyavin and instead went to a pensioner's trip to Europe. Echo of bygone rivalry sounded long: it will present meet the idyllic arrangement with the peasant women, who painted Shmarovym already in exile. Here is read something like a mental debate with Malyavin, but before malyavinskoy "peasant extravaganza" this opus far.
It did not outdo the other and classmate, Constantine Somova.Hotya somovskie motives arise here and there (especially in landscapes), and get much less convincing. In fairness we have to admit, however, that in France and most World of Art Somov not work too some inspiration - his emigre works look barely a parody of the earlier work. Even if it is for them today, the Russian nouveaux riches are paying millions more they do not get this ...
Maybe it runs into an alien environment and invincible yearning for the homeland, which prevented the full expression? Can not be excluded. The same Paul Shmarove known, for example, that he has since expressed regret at his departure from Russia.
And even in 1946, shortly before his death, presented to the "exile portrait of Stalin in the uniform of the generalissimo, thereby expressing admiration for the victory of his people over Germany.
Only in the Soviet Union is unlikely to be the artist lived more freely than in Paris. Yes, there he was experiencing significant financial hardship (sometimes even had to rent an apartment to pay their own pictures). Quickly forgotten its former glory a court portraitist, and in fact before the revolution in Shmarova customers were members of the royal family and ministers and aristocrats. Now it is increasingly switched to feature nudity (in the exposition there are numerous variations on bathers), the exquisite still lifes and bucolic landscapes. Produce what he had dreamed the average bourgeois. And yet here there was relative freedom of creativity. Nobody would have banned Paul Shmarovu experiment, to seek new incarnation, try unexpected moves - even on the table for themselves.
Nothing like this has happened. Repin predicted "great artist" and not hatched.
creative solutions Shmarov prefer proven master, connecting the Russian school of painting with the elements in the then fashionable Art Deco. This painting almost looks salon - with the only no small difference that in any work anyway glimmers author's potential. Alas, not realized in the sense that is meant Boris Pasternak: "In everything I want to get to the heart ..." Of course, the historical circumstances were against Paul Shmarova - so they always against someone else who claims on their own role in the history of art. This particular artist (a very talented, we repeat, - two opinions can not be) very little has managed to counter the circumstances. His work is beautiful, but nothing more.
Velimir Moist