Exhibition of works of Oleg Borisovich Pavlov opens today at the State Tretyakov Gallery

Today, June 25, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Exhibition Hall in Tolmachev) the opening of the exhibition «Oleg Pavlov. Heir. Curator. Research ».

Oleg Oleg Pavlov - one of the oldest paintings in Moscow, the true keeper of the classical tradition, owned by to the ancient artistic dynasty, the great-grandson landscape AK Savrasov .

Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists Oleg Pavlov (b. 1921) continues the traditions of Russian realism underlying the Moscow School of Painting. In the Art Institute. VI Surikov he acted on the advice of IE Grabar , saw pictures of young Pavlova in children's art school . Among its principal teachers painter named Nikolai NM Chernysheva , SA Chuikov , BP Chernyshova , AM Grits . As a student years in creating the mosaics for the station «Komsomolskaya-Ring» capital's subway, he met with PD Korin, and later worked together with the VA Vataginym.

This year, Oleg Pavlov marks anniversary of its educational activities. Half a century he taught - in the printing and Surikov institutions, then the Holy Tychonof Humanities University. For many years he has paid particular attention to the theory of composition, he has developed an original series of lectures.

artist conveyed in museums heritage grandfather - a famous photographer, PP Pavlov, artistic chronicler of life in Moscow foreign XIX - XX centuries, as well as his wife's grandfather - N. Kurdyukova architect, the builder of a shelter for widows and orphans of Russian artists M. Tretyakova, 1912. Oleg Pavlov initiates the establishment of a museum in Moscow AK Savrasov.

One of the important landmarks in the paintings Pavlov elected and post-Impressionism - Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne. The French masters to him equally important mentors as domestic classics SV Gerasimov , PV Kuznetsov , VA Favorskiy , AA Plastov . Appreciates it KN Istomina , from which, through his pupil L. Kazenin by the subtle sense of color .

Retrospective Art Pavlova covers nearly eight decades of children's drawings to the works of recent years. The exhibition is divided into thematic units, reflecting a range of interests of the author, as well as numerous travel - in the Crimea, Armenia, the Arctic. Root Muscovite, he was still in his childhood, having lived for several years with his father in Central Asia, has opened for a romantic trip in the future were important for the artist creative impulses.

At the heart of one of the rooms - landscapes Altai written with different lighting ( «Belukha. Noon», «Belukha. Vecher», two - 1953). Complement the beautiful landscape sketches, zapechatlevshie locals ( «altayki Portrait», 1984). Admire the beauty of nature, Pavlov avoided externalities, but always strives to capture the characteristic of one or the other side features svetovozdushnoy environment. At the gradations of color are fine portraits of the representatives of the Moscow intelligentsia ( «Portrait of Academician IV Tananaeva», 1980), full-scale sketches, landscapes and interior study ( «Interior rooms Istomin in Crimea», 1969).

An important component of becoming an artist Pavlov considered copying the old masters, among them especially beloved master Andrei Rublev, Dionysius, and Theophanes the Greek. The exhibition includes copies of ancient murals ( «The expulsion from paradise» Mirozhskogo Monastery, 1964), with antique paintings and Byzantine mosaics of Crimea and Armenia ( «Demeter» crypt of Demeter in Kerch, 1968), together with the «free transcriptions» ancient works and sketches of church murals ( «Transfiguration» for Novospasski Monastery in Moscow, 2007).

More than 30 years, the artist seeks to introduce the broad practice of his invention - a method of painting termofosfatnoy not exposed to atmospheric influences. Pavlov developed inks suitable for easel painting and drawing, painting and polychrome sculpture patinirovki, but especially valuable for monumental art, ie allow the durability and stability of color on the outer walls and the facades of buildings. The effectiveness of its innovative methods of research to prove painted monasteries of Moscow, Orthodox chapel in Dachau (Germany). It created an image Pavlov «Vernicle» (1995) over the entrance to the cathedral Andronikova Spassky Monastery in Moscow. The exhibition, has absorbed about 80 paintings and graphics from the collection of the author and private collections in Moscow, provides examples of this unique technology.

The exhibition is open to the public from June 26 to July 12, 2009.

Source: a press release the State Tretyakov Gallery