Russian Museum staged a contest selfie at the exhibition "My I"
ARTinvestment.RU   18 августа 2016

Exhibition of self-portraits from the collection of the Russian Museum has inspired many viewers to the original footage

Exhibition "My self. Self-portrait in the collection of the Russian Museum" presents more than 200 works from the collection of GRM. The best places for a selfie contest you can imagine. Who would not want to be photographed in front of famous artists from the early eighteenth century to the present day. Press-служба Museum reported about the immense popularity of the contest. It was decided to increase the number of prizes to celebrate all of decent work. Prizes were awarded in the nominations: "Similarity", "Dialogue with the picture," "audience award" and "Special look".

According to members of the jury, the contestants approached the creative process and did a lot of good, thoughtful images. It's not just the running, a dialogue with the artwork, roll. There was even made a rating of the most popular self-portraits with self-portraits of Karl Briullov or Zinaida Serebryakova in this list was a self-portrait of the artist Vasily Belashina.

"For the time when he worked — is the beginning of the tenth years of the twentieth century, — is a unique phenomenon. And probably he attracted the viewer in that it, too, could pagamenti poulybatsya, a little wryly to myself", — told a leading researcher of the Department of painting of second half XIX — beginning of the XXI century Alisa Lyubimova.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: rusmuseum.ru, tvkultura.ru, artinvestment.ru