Isaac Levitan. The 150-th birthday
In the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Val opens anniversary exhibition of outstanding landscape painter Isaac Levitan. Presents about 300 paintings, sketches, pastels, watercolors and drawings from 17 Russian museums, private collections and two intern
Today, 14 October, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Krimsky Val, 10, hall № 60-61) opens the exhibition "Levitan. The 150-th birthday ».
Anniversary Exhibition of the outstanding landscape Isaac Levitan (1860-1900), master of the lyrical" mood landscapes ", created from simple, prosaic kinds of" iconic images "of Russian nature - One of the largest and most anticipated projects of the season.
Last monographic exhibition of the painter was at the Tretyakov Gallery 50 years ago. Increased generation of viewers who could not read a versatile artist. The current draft is the best, famous paintings textbook masters and a number of discoveries. Collected about 300 paintings, sketches, pastels, watercolors and drawings from 17 Russian museums and private collections in Moscow, as well as two international meetings: the National Art Museum of Belarus (Minsk) and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem). The exposition provides an opportunity to comprehend the enormous contribution of Isaac Levitan in the history of Russian landscape painting, to recognize the scale of the master.
Art of Isaac Levitan associated with realistic tradition of his predecessors, the masters of landscape AK Savrasov , I. Shishkin , AI Kuindzhi , VD Polenova . At the same time, his name is on a par with the names of the new generation of artists - VA Serov, KA Korovin, M. V. Nesterov. AN Benoit , determining the value of Isaac Levitan, wrote his famous "silent monastery (1890, TG):" Not only was it written before the monasteries in the pink morning or evening light? Is it a clear creeks, groves of birch? However, it was clear that there Levitan said the new word <...> and that henceforth he shall be among the first of all. " Even more emotional relationship to the artist of his contemporary FA Malyavina , who urged IE Grabar to throw paint landscapes as well as I. Levitan "all copied, and so wrote as neither you nor the other would not write." Discoveries of Isaac Levitan in landscape painting, not only had a great influence on his contemporaries and disciples, but were continued in almost all landscape painters of late XIX - early XX century, are already working in other systems of artistic thinking.
«Home Road. Formation. 1870-1880-s ». work" Autumn. The road in the village "(1870)," The first green. May "(1883)," Savvinskaya suburb near Zvenigorod (1884, all - THG), sketches, written during a trip to the Crimea in 1886, provide an opportunity to see the results of an apprenticeship I. Levitan at AK Savrasov and VD Polenov and understand how to passed becoming a painter. The section also includes iconic works by the artist - "Birch Forest" (1889, Tretyakov Gallery) and two versions of the painting "Overgrown Pond" (1887, RM and Museum-Reserve VDPolenov), demonstrating its open-air search and discovery.
important event in the life of nineteen Isaac Levitan was the acquisition of P. Tretyakov in 1880, the landscape, "Autumn Day. Sokolniki (1879, TG). Since then, the collector closely followed the works of masters and, according to MV Nesterov, a rare year that did not take any of them produced. Total P. Tretyakov was purchased more than 20 canvases, which became the basis of the best museum collections of works of I. Levitan.
«On the Volga. 1887-1890 ». Disclosure of talent II Levitan facilitated travel to the Volga. Since 1888 the first three years the artist lived in and traveled Pleso in the Volga city. This section includes works that earned I. Levitan fame among his contemporaries: "Evening on the Volga (1887-1888)," After the Rain. Ples "(1889)," Evening. Golden Pool (1889), "A fresh breeze. Volga "(1895, everything - TG). From chamber motifs II Levitan went on to create complex, generalized images of the Volga nature of work in a small format - to create large canvases.
«The search for large images. 1892-1894 ». Creativity II Levitan first half of 1890 is varied by motives, synthetic images, the richest arsenal of artistic means. One of the central sections of the exhibition includes recognized masterpieces, a monumental canvas "In Deep Waters" (1892), "Vladimirka" (1892), "Above the Eternal Peace" (1894, everything - TG). They reveal the Philosopher's warehouse and a dramatic inner world of the artist, his reflections on the transience of human existence in the face of eternity.
«beauty and joy of nature. 1890 ». The viewer sees the glorified I. Levitan, especially loved by the public "Golden Autumn" (1895), "quiet abode" (1890), "Evening Bells" (1892), filled with reassuring outlook painting "March" (1895, everything - THG).
In the center of the exhibition - a monumental canvas "Lake" (1899, RM), on which I. Levitan worked the last two years of life. Large format paintings and a synthesis of landscape character, which includes all the features central Russian landscape, have allowed the artist to create a synthetic image of the motherland. It is known that initially I. Levitan had intended to call this work "Rus».
«European experience. 1890 ». A small section of the exhibition devoted to works written on impressions from trips to Europe:" Near Bordighera in Northern Italy "(1890, TG) Canal in Venice" (1890, Museum-Reserve VD . Polenova), Lake Como (Italy) "(1894, RM).
« recent years. 1897-1900 ». search for fresh artistic decisions and a trial of strength in different styles and forms, incorporating elements of modernism and symbolism, evident in the paintings of" Silence "(1898, RM)," Twilight. Haystacks "(1899, TG)," The Tempest. Rain "(1899, Saratov Art Museum. ANRadischev)," Summer Night "(1900, TG).
opening of the exhibition will be a number of previously unknown or dropped out of the field view of the public and professionals works. These include the recently discovered and previously unpublished paintings and drawings from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. For the first time demonstrates the wide graphic heritage Isaac Levitan - printed graphics (lithography and etching), pencil, watercolor. The most spectacular and vibrant part of this section - pastel, very fragile part of a collection of works of Levitan, never left the gallery. It is shown in full and completed worksheets from the Russian Museum, Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts. MA Vrubel and private collections. Creativity Levitan-pastelista first performed as one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena in Russian art of the late XIX century.
exhibition is complemented by archival materials - letters, II Levitan P. Tretyakov, V. Polenov, VM Vasnetsov , JS Ostrouhov , as well as photos.
The exhibition was restored several well-known paintings, including the famous "Golden Autumn", which became a hallmark of the project. Employees of the Tretyakov Gallery produced edition, incorporating wider than an exhibition of the artist circle - all the paintings and sketches of the painter from the collection of THG and the first time in full, drawings and watercolors from her collection, as well as all the currently known pastels. It includes material from the archive of the artist, is considered lost and not published in the literature of I. Levitan, and called his paper is biased fan SP Diaghilev, written in 1900 in connection with the death of the painter. Also released a multimedia CD.
exhibition will run until March 20, 2011.
Source: press release THG
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