Tonight in the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Arts opens an exhibition devoted to works of Vladimir and Andrei Vetrogonskih

January 27 to 16 hours in the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Prechistenka, 21) opens an exhibition of the People's Artist of Russia, Full Member of Russian Academy of Arts Vladimir Vetrogonskogo (1923-2002), also known as the St. Petersburg painter and graphic Andrew Vetrogonskogo .

Vladimir Vetrogonsky - a great master of Russian fine art of XX century. The large-scale retrospective exhibition gives a complete picture of the artist's works, on the terms of his interests. Easel engraving, drawing, watercolor painting - master perfectly possessed different graphic techniques.

VA Vetrogonsky lived complex, bright, full of challenges and tests of life. During the war, he moved all the hardships of the Siege of Leningrad, he was called into the army, participated in the liberation of his native city. In 1946 entered the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with renowned artist and teacher AF Pakhomov , the representative of the Leningrad school graphic. The main theme of the young artist was a post-war reconstruction of the country, the image of peaceful labor. Color linocut, and lithography on an industrial theme, and now not lost its charm and immediate internal feelings.

In 1960, working on the cycle of image sheets «As native North-West», the artist each summer in a row, made a trip to Cherepovets Neve, through Lake Ladoga, in the old system, the Mariinsky, the Volga-Balt. Gradually, people now understand life and nature, philosophical and emotional comprehension of all that met on the road. Many works are devoted to seafarers and the river Volga-Baltic Fleet, and is not a coincidence that one of the ships named after the artist.

Vetrogonsky never thought nothing, does not set himself the task of the abstract, as portrayed what is in the living environment that meets their expectations and sense of well being. He was a realist, and never renounced his beliefs, always remained himself.

The artist traveled extensively throughout the world, creating a bright, expressive drawings, watercolors, on nature, architecture and lifestyles of people in different countries: Italy, France, Germany, India, Bangladesh, China.

1980-90-years in the works Vetrogonskogo new motives, his perception of life has become philosophical. Original landscapes, novels, music on mood, imbued with a sense of genuine admiration for nature.

Artworks Vetrogonskogo are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum and other museums in Russia and abroad. His work - an example of a virtuoso, brilliant skill, honesty and humanity in art.

Andrei Vladimirovich Vetrogonsky, a graduate of St. Petersburg State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repin, belongs to a generation of artists who started his creative path in the late 1970's.

The artist works in a variety of graphic and pictorial techniques. Favorite motifs and images of his work - St. Petersburg yards, northern village landscapes, portraits of friends, exquisite still lifes laconic. They expressed the whole range of feelings the artist associated with the direct perception of nature, with the change of seasons, with the rhythms of the modern city.

Andrew Vetrogonskogo works of recent years suggests the formation of self-creative manner. In his paintings and graphic landscapes and still lifes have a desire to combine the search for harmony of the universe with a direct sense of beauty of a particular motive. A series of urban landscapes, a stroll through the city, based on the unity of the storylines and endless variety of motifs beautifully-plastic characteristics.

Special inherent author distinguishes poetic tone portraits A. Vetrogonskogo. Portraying people close to him, the artist deliberately leaves of specifying the external features, shape sharpens decision making voltage color order.

Exhibition of Vladimir and Andrei Vetrogonskih works in the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Prechistenka, 21) until February 15.

Source: rah.ru