«With a deep sense of amazement ...»
ARTinvestment.RU   26 декабря 2008

State Darwin Museum presents an exhibition devoted to 125 anniversary of the artist and animal Basil Aleckseievich Vatagina

Last night at the State Darwin Museum opened an exhibition «With a deep sense of amazement ...», devoted to 125 anniversary of the artist and animal Basil Aleckseievich Vatagina .

celebration of the anniversary of VA Vatagina are both within the walls of the State Darwin Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val .

Artworks VA Vatagina are stored in many museums in Russia, but his main legacy is represented in the funds and the State Tretyakov Gallery, primarily Darwin Museum.

Exhibition «With a deep sense of amazement ...» affect the historic milestones of life Basil Aleckseievich Vatagina.

Vatagin childhood was familiar with the founder and first director of Darwin museum AF COTS. Together they engaged in a private studio of watercolor drawings Martinova, illustrator of many scientific publications and popular hunting and natural logs in Russia. The exhibition presents a portrait of the Martinova Vatagina made by students in memory of the first lessons of fine teachers.

In 1922, AF COTS invited VA Vatagina in the Darwin Museum to work on a future exhibition. Under the auspices of VA Vatagina Darwin in the walls of the museum, where he worked for more than 40 years, a Moscow animalisticheskaya school. Founder Darwin museum AF COTS always called VA Vatagina co-founder of the museum.

Vasily Alekseevich Vatagin was great workers - strikes a great number of works left behind him, only to Darwin Museum, more than 400 panel paintings and about 100 sculptures. AF COTS lovingly named fund works of fine art museum Darwin «Tretyakov in Biology», but without the participation of VA Vatagina this unique fund never got to such a bold comparison with the most respected in the world collection of Russian art.

VA Vatagin was not just an artist, he knew and loved nature, and his scientific illustrations have the artistic and liveliness, which were then available to it. He illustrated numerous experiments on Zoopsychology of the NN-Ladygin COTS. A special exhibition takes place at a series of VA Vatagina dedicated to the monkey. It started with them Vatagina collaboration with the museum, and they have been a main feature of talent artist: fixing elusive, fleeting movements, why Vatagin famous as the «master Moments».

From the «science» of things most important paintings, written in 1930-1950's to the Darwin Museum, the best of them are art panels in the Art Nouveau style and is decorated with exhibition halls of the museum and to this day.

Darwin Museum will acquaint visitors with the many paintings by the artist, carefully stored in the museum.

VA Vatagin traveled a lot and a lot of drawing from life. For the first time the court will be presented to the viewer avtolitografii India and graphic sketches of the unique open-air museum - the biosphere reserve Askania Nova.

Follow-up work for the museum's series «The Biology of animals and their adaptation to the habitat» (image beavers, seals, otters, penguins, flamingos, amphibians and fish) showed unusual gift of the artist to understand the lines and forms animalisticheskih images.

Powerful creative Vatagina evident not only in painting but also in the works of wood, marble, ivory, in the works of earthenware, in terracotta and majolica. The exhibition focuses its attention on the sculpture - calling Vatagina.

feature of the display of these art works in the Darwin Museum is to combine them with the full-scale exhibits - a unique association of GDM exhibit differs from many science museums in the world. At the exhibition, visitors can admire the birds of paradise and bushbok African antelope, the majestic jaguar, and funny slonenkom, compare the image on the parrots master paintings with natural cockatoo and macaw.

Paintings and sculptures made for the Darwin museum great biologist, scientist and artist of rare talent VA Vataginym, an important complement to the museum items - stuffed, biogruppam, collections of insects and shells. Thanks VA Vataginu have become more accessible and closer to challenging the truth of natural history.

exhibition at the State Darwin Museum is open from 25 December 2008 to 1 March 2009.

Source: mkrf.ru



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