Today, the State Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean shaft (Halls 21-22) opens exhibition «The theater in the works of artists of the 1920's - 30's», which presents visual works from the funds of the Tretyakov Gallery

from 24 December 2008 to March 10, 2009 in the State Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean shaft (Halls 21-22) will host exhibition «The theater in the works of artists of the 1920's - 30-ies. Drawing funds from the State Tretyakov Gallery ». Its mission - to gather in the space of two halls of the museum the most spectacular of the greatest masters of the first third of the twentieth century, in whose sphere of creative interests are and theater. The exhibition does not pretend to an exhaustive retrospective of Theater Arts 1920 - 1930's, but the few pieces of which it is, reveals the many aspects of the artistic process, reflecting not only the personal credo of the authors, translated into their theatrical works, but also and general trends.

Most famous exhibits of works created by artists «first-line», whose creative writing known accurately. Among them B. Kustodiev , N. Natalia Goncharova , M. Mikhail Larionov , A. Lentulov , A. Ekster , L. Popov , Lisitsky El . Already one of the listing shows how a wide range of directions in the art of the first third of the twentieth century - from the traditional approach to the stage to radical innovation.

Many of the performances included in the history of art precisely because of interesting solutions scenographer. Often, after a decade of theatrical sketches are unique documentary evidence of a production: the sets and costumes are rarely preserved. In some cases drawings art scene - the only trace of what the director, whose project was never realized.

style of Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova linked to the interest in folk art forms. Studied the deformation - an important plastic reception neoprimitivizma - Goncharova brought in to limit expression. «The challenge is not to wear a costume and transform an imaginary character, its type, the nature», - stated the artist. Her designs for the ballet «Bogatyrs», based on Russian folklore - not just spectacular decorative costumes, but the expression rate images, Ilya Муромца and other былинных characters.

On the design Aristarkh Lentulov opera «Les Contes d'Hoffmann» Igor Ilyinsky wrote: «The performance that is among the few events for which you can selflessly love theater. That play, in which impressions and aesthetic pleasure to receive as a whole, as a symphonic music ».

For the true masters of the avant-garde, not only the use of plastic devices, carried to the theater of the painting, but also an innovative approach to scenery in general. In the experiment George Yakulova - Performance «Zhirofle-Zhiroflya» - the foundation stage has become a mobile design - The system «kinetic machines». The main principle of theatrical performance Yakulov thought «the principle of constant motion, a kaleidoscope of shapes and colors». In the suit, he laid the idea of interpretation of the role, considering that just found a suit frees the actor from having to «hang out and walk on the stage».

Alexandra Exter in processing performance «Romeo and Juliet» sought plastic fusion style and innovation. According to the words of Abram Efros, «she wished that it was kubistichneyshy cubism in Baroque Baroque».

standard avant-garde theatrical experiment in Russia - the legendary spectacle «Victory over the sun». In setting , so Alexei Kruchenykh Michael Matyushin , he linked the latest achievements of painting, music and poetry. Re-opera «Victory over the Sun» set in 1920 in Vitebsk, a pupil of Malevich Vera Vera Ermolaeva , whose surgical solution to appeal to cubism and developed methods of the first version of the play. In the years 1920-1921 Lazar Lisitsky developed a draft set of opera «Victory over the Sun» as Electromechanic submission: actors replaced huge puppets that were to be moved on the stage with the help of electromechanical installation. Scenography been part of the process control puppets, as well as sound and light effects. The only evidence of the grandiose, but no innovative idea Lisitsky have albums of sketches.

An example of fruitful cooperation artist and producer, is equally focused on the experiment - working together Lyubov Popova and Vsevolod Meyerhold on performance «magnanimous cuckold». This symbiosis of constructivist aesthetic design and innovative techniques of directing. Utopian understanding of the role of theater as an «exemplary demonstration of the life and the people» Popova translated into installation - universal design for the «generous rogonostsa».

Many of the Russian avant-garde artists have seen the actual problem is not the design of specific performances, and in the universal decoration of theatrical space, based on techniques of plastic art direction, to which belonged. For example, a pupil of Malevich Kudryashov Ivan to design sketches of Orenburg theater to use the principles of Suprematism. The desire for total reform of the theater led to the interest of masters to the avant-garde architectural solution of the theater building. The draft Alexei Babichev and George Miller embodies the innovative principles of the organization of theatrical space.

parallel with the avant-garde theater arts in 1920 - the 1930's there was the traditional approach to scenography. This line is represented by the masters, not prone to extreme innovation, and the artists who began the creative activity at the turn of XIX and XX centuries, and remained faithful to their convictions. For example, Bob Kustodiev and Ivan Bilibin collaborated with the theater, traditional fictional techniques.

The exhibition is timed to open a new special section in the permanent exhibition «Art of XX century» - «The work of the artist's performance». On this site (room number 19) in replacement of exhibits will be shown that part of the collection of paintings and graphics, which linked to the theater and the arts, and above Set hardly exhibited. Tretyakov Gallery has a large collection of works created for the theater and cinema.

The first exhibit is devoted to replacement of Russian classics Scenography first half of the twentieth century Fyodorovsky . Complementing the exhibition «The theater in the works of artists 1920 - 1930's» individual plot, the only professional exhibition scene in the galaxy of artists, gallery shows the sketches of F. Fyodorovsky to play Bolshoi «Nürnberg maysterzingery». In works of the masters, which are located between the avant-garde and tradition, not a radical innovation, but their tradition is largely painted plastic techniques, creative thinking inherent in the early twentieth century.

Source: mkrf.ru