This evening in the prewar national art gallery “Galeyev Gallery” will open the exhibition of paintings and graphics Nikolai Ionin (1890-1948)

This evening in the prewar national art gallery «Galeyev Gallery» will open the exhibition of paintings and graphics Nikolai Ionin (1890-1948).

Heritage Nikolai Alexandrovich Ionin complements and enriches the overall picture of development «Leningrad School» 1920-40-ies. This could make sure two years ago in the past in the halls of the museum retrospective Russian artist. The exhibition presented works that are stored in a family gathering in the Russian Museum collection.

For Artists Leningrad common misfortune was the loss of years of blockade of their works: paintings on canvas, archives. (It is a bit of creative preservation of heritage in full, gives an indication of the evolution of the master, his ways in the art, landmark discoveries and milestones.) Heritage NA Ionin, unfortunately, no exception. However, survivors of service we can legitimately speak on behalf of another deserving scientific and audience interest.

Artist briefly survived the victory - he died in 1948, in time Zhdanovsky attack on the culture of artists, working on the state order - pictures «Fire in the Murmansk port». Multi-figure compositions, it is extremely difficult to perform, on memories of his son, gave him to work. Subjected to severe criticism at the Arts Council - it has cost the life of the author: Jonas, died of a heart attack. Today, we can understand the drama of the artist of choice: the freedom of creativity and the harsh reality of survival. Daily samopreodolenie for the sake of life circumstances could not be flawed. Only a few years earlier, in the evacuation in Kyrgyzstan (1942-1944), N. Ionin, seemed to have a joyful ease and Pegasus artistic creativity inherent in the true masters. The richness of the palette, subtle color harmony, a stranger to him svetonosnost Asian sky - all of it was like a reconditioned «your fingers» pianist. Memory of the exercises in the workshop of his mentor in the 1920's - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin .

lessons teachers could not affect the manner and beautifully-graphic culture Ionin. Come down to us samples of his art mid-1920's desire to emphasize the author to gain plastically conditional, but emotionally rich environment. Bright pure colors: raging kraplak, bottomless ultramarine, sunny yellow - Tools Ionin, he skillfully uses. Ionin close to his colleagues on the «Leningrad school»: party famous exhibitions of paintings of artists of all Petrograd (1923), active exponents of Artists Communities (1928-1932), the first landmark exhibition of Leningrad artists in the Russian Museum (1935). Exhibition artist biography is rather wide, it is - an integral part of art history, pre-war Leningrad. Close communication with A. Samokhvalova (a relative and friend Ionin) enabled the artist to become one of the pioneers in creating the image of Soviet women ( «Woman in red», 1925), a specific and unique character, age, subsequently rastirazhirovannogo as many «workers» and «sports».

Nicholas Jonas - One of the few Russian artists of 1920's, was behind the creation of the Soviet «icon Art Deco» (A. Borovski). At just opened in the Russian Museum exhibition «The painting, style, fashion» represented by two female portraits Ionin performed in this manner ( «Portrait E. N. Ionin (Samokhvalova)», mid-1920's). Scenic decorativeness, strictly realistic figure (School DN Kardovsky ), the overall shape Typological component (portraits VV Pakulina , AF Pakhomov , AI Rusakova of the same period) makes portraits Ionin particularly important element« Leningrad »culture.

first in the Moscow exhibition N. Ionin coincided with the inauguration of new books of prose, his son - a well-known writer and literary critic, Professor Herman Ionin, author of books about the works of G. Derzhavina, V. Mayakovsky, A. Block, D. Andreeva. The title of the book - «Apocalypse» - symbolic: The author presents the personal tragedy of the heroes of novels in the context of the fate of the country. The book is illustrated by the works of the writer's father - Nikolai Ionin.

The exhibition consists of works and archival material courtesy of the artist's family (St. Petersburg).

Exhibition in Galeyev Gallery (B. Kozihinsky ÐÅÒ., 19/6, p. 1) open to the public from July 29 until September 27, 2009 . Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 11.00-19.00, Saturday - Sunday: 12.00-18.00

Source: press release Galeyev-Galleries