Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val a shift of funds exhibit graphics twentieth century “Poligraffak Vtutemasa - Vhuteina. Teachers and Students ”

Today, June 18, the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Halls 21-22) will open the exhibition of a replacement fund schedules twentieth century «Poligraffak Vtutemasa - Vhuteina. Teachers and students ».

exhibition is devoted to study of the legendary art university - Vhutemasu - Vhuteinu (1920-1930). For a decade he has managed to lower to a revolution in the training of artists in Soviet Russia. Opening the audience an interesting collection of art of 1920's related to the famous School of Polygraph Institute, more than half of the 120 exhibits gallery shows for the first time.

Reforms in Russia porevolyutsionnoy touched and art education. In 1918 the Stroganov Artistic and Industrial School was transformed into the first, and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture - the second Free State Art Studios (Svomas). Decree Sovnarkoma in 1920, they joined in Moscow Vhutemas (Higher Art Technical Studios). In 1926 it was reorganized, and up to 1930, has not yet been closed, there was already a Vhutein (Superior Institute of Art and Technology).

The new institution to develop innovative teaching methods based on formal analytical approach. After learning of formal disciplines (painting, sculpture, architecture, design) in the main office - the first stage, common to all vhutemasovtsev - students continue their studies at the eighth special faculties: «productive» and refers to the area of «pure art».

Poligraffak considered productive faculty. Several times he changed the title: Printed School (1920), graphic-printed (1921-1922), Art-Printing (1924-1926), Printing (1925-1930). Here, artists trained in the specialties: lithographic case, the metal plate (photomechanics and etching), typographic case. Since 1921 in the Faculty have been trained in five specialties: lithography, etching, woodcut, photomechanics and printing. The last three have been closely linked with work on a book.

authoritative figure at the institute was VA Favorskiy , who initially headed the department woodcut, and later became rector Vhutemasa. He was convinced that the «old» tradition of learning the techniques of graphics, inherited from the Stroganov School, has a distinctive culture of the material. Therefore, in the Faculty sought to introduce modern printing all the wealth of old graphic culture. Subsequently, many dogs Poligraffaka, such as AA Deineka and YI Pimenov , is fluent in both book, magazine or poster, and easel graphics.

It VA Favorskiy and NI Piskarev , who led ksilografsko -typographic Poligraffaka office, have the task of creating the art books in the new working conditions imposed in the walls of the university term «dummy books». In training, students were printing at the same time as the authors of the layout and illustrations, are protected as an individual thesis project book.

link works exhibit the greatest masters, taught in Vhutemase - Vhuteine, and the earliest experiments of their pets. By training and dissertations noticeable attraction of students to different stylistic directions, which belonged to teachers: VA Favorskiy, P. AND . Lvov , VD Falileev and other curators of the exhibition selected works of the masters, that serve as a guide for students, in particular lithography N. Kupreyanova , etchings I. Nivinskogo , drawings PV Mituricha .

The two museum rooms renovated stages of educational process. They can be seen in the case of assignments for composition, color and space-spatial nature of the decision, made LA Zholtkevich, N. AND . Lapshin , EM Gurevich. As a student lists all the technology, which worked vhutemasovtsy (for example, drawing or lithograph), reflected the special education subjects.

Over the years, artists and their heirs were given a lot of the Tretyakov Gallery, contributing to the formation of collections related to Poligraffakom. The long-term project «Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val opens its store» to show this collection, usually located in the funds.

As the number of works never before exhibited, - saved the entire dissertations AD Goncharov , EA Afanasyeva, ID Kuleshov , MM Akselrod and IA spinel, as well as separate lists of diploma BF Sukhanova , J. S. Telishevskogo and other graduates Poligraffaka. Diverse set of authors' works form a group that broadcasts an atmosphere of creative search and experiments in art a new type of institution. The story of Vhutemase - Vhuteine complement the archival photos and documents.

The exhibition is open to the public from 19 June to 18 Oct., 2009.

Source : a press release the State Tretyakov Gallery