Today, in the case of Benoit Russian Museum opens an exhibition which will be presented about 70 graphic works of famous Russian painter Mikhail Shvartsman

October 29, in the case of Benoit Russian Museum opens exhibition of works by famous Russian artist Mikhail Shvartsman . This is the second exhibition Shvartsman in the Russian Museum. At this time, will be presented about 70 works from the collection of the artist's widow.

Mikhail M. Shvartsman was born in Moscow on June 4th, 1926 in the family entrepreneur-nepmana. When the era ended nepa, Schwarzman had to constantly hide from prosecution authorities. In the end, repressed father and he died in the camp, and his mother were exiled to Siberia. Michael, orphaned, was sent to boarding school, where he went into the army and served in engineering troops.

After demobilization in 1950, Michael enrolled in the Higher Art and Industrial College (B. Stroganov), first at the department of metal, then painting. Already in the first courses of the future artist passion for Byzantine and ancient Russian art, frescos, icons. Becoming a certified designer, Schwartzman earned a living doing design books, design logos, poster paint, which has made great strides not only in the USSR but also abroad. Since 1966, Michael was the chief designer Matveevich Special Art and Design Bureau of Light Industry, even founded his own school, play a very important role in implementing the principles of graphic styling - symbolic, stylistic unification of industrial products.

In the late 1950's - 1960's, Mikhail Shvartsman occurs with many so-called non-artists, engaging with them in the artistic dialogue. At the Shvartsman at this time has a different way of thinking and his own easel style «another art», is not similar to any of at the time. It is about respect for human life and death: «A man in his life and creates an icon himself in the face of death, he leaves a trace of a icon in the tomb. This is a spiritual birth to death ». Shvartsman, first developed a system for images of people. They were conditionally rendered head - face - faces. In «likah» born «hierarchy». His paintings called «ieraturami», and its concept - «ieratizmom», making the term from ancient Greek hieros - «sacred». In the art of the ancient world and medieval ieratizmom called due to religious and ceremonial zastylost canonical requirements and the diversion of the images (the human figure in a strictly frontal pose, with a fixed gaze). Schwarzman called his new system «landmark» - «the language of the third millennium». On display images that give the presentation about the search for the artist and the preparatory work for paintings.

Schwarzman died in Moscow on 17 November 1997. Even after his death in 1997, the work of Michael M. entered the most significant, most private, non-art collections, including collections of the famous collector of Russian avant-garde painting of George Kostaki Americans Norton Dodge, whose collection now included in the museum Tsimmerli Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

«He imitated his quote and asked afraid of his opinion. He had many supporters, but he minded not found even among them. He has never and will not run off - the meaning of his life was painting. He was a man of manners abrupt, rarely change their traditional way of life, preferred working studio silence any kind of public activity »(from the album« Michael Schwartzman »: GRM. 2005).

Source: mkrf.ru