Exhibition «In my family» the Pushkin Museum in them. Alexander Pushkin
ARTinvestment.RU   15 мая 2008

The State Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin an exhibition «In the family», dedicated to the «Year» in Russia

The State Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin an exhibition «In the family», dedicated to the «Year» in Russia. On display are works that are stored in the Pushkin Museum, and the State Tretyakov Gallery.

age of the family is long, and age of mankind. The theme found its reflection in literature, beginning with the mythological, biblical, evangelical subjects, reflected in the fine art of the first rock paintings and the paintings of masters of the world's largest painting.

The exhibition begins with works by Dutch and Flemish masters of XVII century, they became among the first to portray the private life of his contemporaries. Family scenes occupy a significant place in the works of Dutch artists of the XVII century. Their pictures appeared dimensions home life, the key to happiness is a woman - the mistress and mother

The ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, and other educators have been reflected in the French painting of the time. In the works of Jean-Baptiste dreams, Nicola Lepise Bernard, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Marguerite Gérard, Etienne Aubry and Louis-Leopold Boilly emerging work on the family home. Favorite motifs in the works of Jean-Honore Fragonard and his students began to Marguerite Gerard images touching scenes of family life.

In the second half of XVIII century artists interested not only a family idyll, but also the dramatic moments in the life of the family. In these difficult times the family was the only pillar of support and the man in the struggle with the complex circumstances of life.

A series of six prints «Fashion marriage», written by Hogarth in 1745, became an artistic manifesto of several generations of British artists. Her story - the marriage contract: the rich merchant gives younger daughter married the son of gentility, but fairly poizderzhavshegosya graph Skvonderfilda (engl. «squander» - to waste, squander). Both parties believe the marriage bargain, and totally happy. «Free» the behavior of a young couple after the wedding entails illness and death of the spouses of the protagonist.

Russia in the XIX century family portrait more often served the function of which is now replaced by photography, and the task of transferring the similarity was to the fore. In this portrait artistry is often relegated to second place. But the best picture Venetsianov not limited to the image characteristic of folk types, national costumes. «First Steps» - the start of the canvas 1830-ies - is devoted to the crucial stage of human maturation. A reasonable family patterns is presented in «Portrait DP Voyejkova with her daughter VD Voyejkova and Englishwoman Miss Forty» mature period of creativity Basil Tropinin.

«Marital happiness» Konstantin Somov refers to a number of works groteskovoy manners, which are connected a realistic image, and irony in the contrast of high and low.

In the twentieth century in the world of painting a portrait of a family becomes a field of artistic experiment and a topic for philosophical reflection. In the picture of A. Tyshlera «Motherhood» (1932), as always in the works of this artist, subtly connected with reality and fantasy. The image of women with a child on the background of a generalized urban landscape becomes a symbol, a sign of motherhood.

The exposition of the exhibition includes the work of young artists working art studio in the center of the aesthetic education of children and youth «Museyon» Pushkin Museum with them. Alexander Pushkin.

The exhibition will run until 1 June 2008.

Source: www.museum.ru