English book in Russian style. Illustration of the 1920s - 2010s
ARTinvestment.RU   21 апреля 2014

The exhibition, organized by the gallery GROSart together with the State Pushkin Museum, presents 71 original graphic works of the author, who for nearly a hundred years of English literature illustrated

Showrooms State Pushkin Museum
April 24 - June 2, 2014
Moscow , Money lane, 55/32
( underground station "Smolensk »)

in the exhibition halls of the State Pushkin Museum in the Cash Lane opens the exhibition " English book, in Russian style . Illustration of the 1920s - 2010s . " The exhibition, organized by the gallery " GROSart " together with the State Pushkin Museum as part of the Year of Culture of Great Britain and Russia in 2014 , represents the first widely original graphic works by 71 website ( including little-known private collections ), which for nearly century English literature illustrated . They created book illustrations , gold fund component of domestic art books, complemented by a fairly rare phenomenon sculptural illustrations , as well as puppet and decorative compositions by subject .

VLADIMIR Tabor Illustration for Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet Prince of Denmark ." Translation of Boris Pasternak . 1940 . Frontispiece . Woodcut Source: Press release of the exhibition

Vladimir Lebedev Illustration to Rudyard Kipling " Elephant ." 1922 Lithograph Source: Press release of the exhibition

Between from the 1920 's to the early 2010s to design an exemplary works of Shakespeare, Swift, Smollett , Sterne, Burns , Byron, Keats, Scott , Dickens, Thackeray , Carroll , Kipling , Conan Doyle , Wilde , Shaw, Milne , Golding , Tolkien and other classics of English poetry and prose with passion accessed such luminaries Russian illustration as Vladimir Vladimir A. Tabor , Alex Kravchenko , Vladimir Lebedev , Lev Lev Bruni , Vladimir Konashevich , David Sternberg , Vatagin , Nikolai Alekseev and other authors who worked primarily to the mid-twentieth century , as well as their successors and disciples . Among the most recent in 1930 - 60s were active , Michael Peaks , Valentine Kurds , Mikhail Polyakov , Vladimir Milashevsky , Fedor Konstantinov , Eugene Golyahovsky , which comes to replace the then new generation of artists represented by Dmitry Bisti , Valery Valery S. Alfeevskogo , Boris Dehtereva , Victor Duvidova , May Miturich , Boris Diodorov , Yuri Vashenko , Victor Chizhikova , Anatoly Itkin , Nikolai Ustinov , Boris Vlasov and others .

DAVID Sternberg Machines . Illustration to Rudyard Kipling " 40 north , 50 west . " 1931 Woodcut Source : Press Release exhibition

Anatoly Itkin Illustration for HG Wells ' Invisible Man ." 1983 . Paper, ink Source: Press release of the exhibition

in this broad thematically organized art space naturally aligned not only temporary stages in the development of domestic illustration, but also stylistically traced through the line, such as those associated with traditional books realistic figurative " tone " image ( Vatagin , Dekhterev , Itkin ) , and going from Tabor in silhouette - mounting synthetically organized composition , and even with the proposed " miriskusnika "in the XIX-XX centuries romantically easy, fast and metaphorically drawing game ( Kurds , Milashevsky , Alfeevsky , Vashenko ).

VICTOR Siskin Illustration for the fairy tale Milne " Winnie-the- Pooh and all -all-all . " 1986 Paper, gouache Source: Press release of the exhibition

YURI VASHCHENKO Illustration to the novel Charles Dickens ' Pickwick Papers ." 2010 Paper, pencil, ink Source: Press release of the exhibition

Caught galaxy of younger artists (Alexander Koshkin, Anastasia Arkhipova Julia Gukova Andrei Bondarenko , Victoria , Denis Gordeev , etc.) illustrate the tendency of English writers in still reflects not only the specifics of the law-governed selection of literary works , the most preferred plastic for " lighting " at some point or another , but also transmits a known dynamics of artistic taste and style that generates abundant imagination and skill in solving the unique meeting point of Russian eyes and the English word .

Moreover, by featuring a diverse stylistic imagery and content, but solely on the quality of solid material , the exhibition clearly confirms the fact that the domestic illustration appears consistently one of the best sections of not only Russian , but and the world of twentieth century art and modernity .

Source : press Release gallery " GROSart »