From 21 April to 18 May at the Central House of Artists open exhibition of the artist Alexander Konovalov

From 21 April to 18 May at the Central House of Artists (room number 2, antresolny floor) opened a personal exhibition of the artist Alexander Konovalov . The exhibition presents over 40 works, dating from the years 1910-mi.

Gallery «Vellum», part of which is to provide expertise on a variety of reasons, neglected or even unknown names of Russian artists, has already held exhibitions Alexander Konovalov in the autumn of last year's Antiquarian Salon. Now it's time to better provide public works great Russian artist - student MA Vrubel , I. Nivinskogo , Shechtel, whose.

We are perfectly aware of many of the names of the era of decadence, marked in Russian art flourishing symbolism. Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Benois , Victor Borisov-Musatov , Natalia Goncharova - in painting, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Sergey Nadson, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam - in poetry, Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff - in music; Vatslav Nizynski and Ida Rubinstein - in ballet. At the same time, there were wonderful artists that did not participate in the hectic exhibition activities, not part of the associations and groups, but no less interesting, to create works of art no less force than the eminent master. One of these artists is Alexander S. Konovalova.

She was born in Moscow in 1883. Under the influence of poetic sentiment and sufrazhistskih aspirations for independence, sixteen ladies Konovalova comes at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the course of stylization flowers. In MUZHVZ Konovalova studies in conjunction with P. Utkin , N. Milioti , Sapunova , P. Kuznetsov , received it two years earlier and created the famous «Blue rose». Konovalova of an association was not included, but, of course, Wednesday was common.

art historian, director of the gallery «Vellum» Love Agafonova both wrote about the roots of creativity artist: «First of all, a great impact on the creativity Konovalova, of course, had Michael Vrubel ... mythmaking, the cult surprising poise on the brink, and was shown sleep, that is different from the religious and domestic norms, affective horror or sadness, characteristic of Vrubel, simvolistskie generated images of the artists of the "Blue Rose", who considered it to their teacher. The principles of art consists in the treatment of intangible means, namely, the music, to the epic. Painting is not displaying the history and everyday culture, and something nadmirnym. Fantasy and dream birth fragile, ephemeral images and feelings - from the sacral to the ecstasy of erotic experience. To send this became unnecessary, and the prospect of deep, clear performance of the picturesque canons, the density of strokes. On the contrary, the vagueness prevail, giving easy Fleur figures, transparent image, the smoothness of fuzzy lines, like musical phrases - all of which may correlate with the proposed human fantasy artist emotions ».

is a natural respect for these principles and Konovalova. She not only learns from Vrubel, she participates as a journeyman in the implementation of its decorative panels, where a rough part of the orders. And after the departure of the great artist from the life of Alexander Konovalov continued to write, using the teacher's message. Her watercolors present a harmonious synthesis of the fantastic feelings and application performance, inherent Vrubel.

This is especially evident in the surviving sketches Konovalova to decorative painting. Her deep knowledge of Russian and European mythology, the poetry of passion symbolists have created intriguing images of cryptic, if ajar window into another world, with a mythological era affective delicacies.

Watercolors Konovalova frontier 1900-10-ies - the artistic reflection of life, subtle quotations era Russian Modernism. Long, like a cloud yarn, watercolor strokes ( «After explanations», «Ruslan and Lyudmila») are replaced by their pearl transparency ( «Das Rheingold», «Captive Snake»). By the end of 1910-Konovalov's commitment to originality resulting in frank poster paint compositions to compile the figures ( «Belem canvas»). Later, in 1930, have been subjected to «antiformalisticheskoy attack» officialdom, the artist becomes a hard realist ( «family», «Handling Cod»), but the thirst for mythmaking, the love of the fantastic and mysterious, and then does not leave her. Konovalova, living in Chukotka, where she threw a terrible reality of the Stalinist era, is drawn to the mystical traditions of Aboriginal people. It is not mistifitsiruya images only depicting shamans ( «ritual dance»), it illustrates the sacred life of the North.

Unfortunately, the particles of information that has been collected, can not talk in detail about Alexander Konovalov - amazing artist the first third of the twentieth century, the circumstances of her life and death. We just have her watercolors - wonderful works of art worthy to take place in cultural history.

Source: rusiskusstvo.ru