Today in the Yaroslavl Art Museum opens the exhibition "Black on white"; exhibited masterpieces of Russian and Western European graphics XX century from the museum's own collection, as well as from private collections in Russia a

Today, October 3, in the Yaroslavl Art Museum opens the exhibition "Black on white"; exhibited masterpieces of Russian and Western European graphics XX century from the museum's own collection, as well as from private collections in Russia and France. It shows the 150 sheets of high-grade graphics by famous artists of the twentieth century, Russia and France, including Pierre Bonnard, Lev Bruni , Natalia Goncharova , Andre Derain, Wassily Kandinsky , Myuis Kissling , Jean-Emile Laburer, Andre Masson, Peter Miturich , Ernst Unknown , Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin , Alexander Rodchenko , Georges Rouault, Mikhail Sokolov , Leopold Survage , Basil Chekrygin , Mikhail Shemyakin .

Art - a process that erodes national and political boundaries. Is especially clearly shows a black and white graphics, whose language is concise and polysemous simultaneously. In any artist - graphic, painter, sculptor, Russian or French - is a black and white work in the form of the original design or the final product. Someone general recognizes only this color. Black and white graphics offers a wide range of expressive possibilities, depending on materials, techniques, methods, manners, styles, images, gives a food for the mind and heart that can meet the varying needs of the most demanding audience. Stylistically the image varies from abstraction, sign up to the full illusory. Harmony, elegance, expression, speculative formulas - the twentieth century is particularly rich in suggestions. In a combination of black and white is magic, philosophy, aesthetics, art, passion, logic.

The idea of the exhibition belongs to the Moscow gallery "2.36", for which the collection and publication of Russian and European charts is one of the main activities. The exhibition is under the patronage of the French cultural center in Moscow. Yaroslavl Art Museum is pleased to participate in this international project. The museum's collection provides an excellent opportunity to show black and white world of art. In the meeting of the Yaroslavl Art Museum 46 thousand works on paper. Two-thirds of them - black and white sheets. Some of them are organically integrated into the overall structure of the exhibition.

project, which resulted from the partnership of private and public galleries of the museum, allowed to submit a black and white graphics of the twentieth century in all its manifold manifestations. Even more complete characterization is given in the catalog accompanying the exhibition. The publication is encyclopedic reference includes information about authors, forms, techniques and expressive possibilities of this extremely interesting phenomenon of art.

The exhibition is open until November 15, 2009.

Source: artmuseum.yar.ru