Today in the gallery "Ark" presents "Shevchenyata Shevchenko's delight to watch ...". Presents work Rostislav Barto, Catherine Grain, Basil Pochitalova, Boris Rybchenkova, Bucky Urmanche, Tatyana Shevchenko and other authors

Today, December 10, the gallery "Ark" (st. Nemchinov, 12) presents "Shevchenyata Shevchenko's delight to watch ...". Submitted work Rostislav Barto , Boris Golopolosova, Catherine Grain , Valeria Kaptereva, Basil Pochitalova , Boris Rybchenkova , Olga Sokolova, Paul Surikov, Baki Urmanche , Sergei Hamkina and Tatiana Shevchenko .

in the title of the exhibition made a quotation from a manuscript of the almanac "Bedlam" (1927), owned by artist Boris Rybchenkovu, party celebrated the group "Thirteen", a painter and draftsman. In 1921, he decided to become a disciple Alexander Shevchenko : a year earlier, January 1, 1920 formerly of Salon Izdebsky "show" Donkey's Tail "and" Target ", co-author of the manifesto" Tsvetodinamos and tectonic primitivism "Shevchenko was appointed professor of painting in the capital VHUTEMAS.

« Alexander possessed a remarkable gift of nothing impose on its students, does not interfere with their development - recalled Ribchenko. - AV Shevchenko did not look for us in his mirror image. Those who tried to imitate it, parties. Each of us has seen it first and foremost an artist, each directed in accordance with his talent and capabilities ... Generously and unobtrusively he cherished gifts to artistry in the craft of the painter and the stock of moral strength, without which neither the artist nor the person to be impossible ».

Rybchenkovu echoes Olga Sokolova:" The great thing about the teaching of Alexander Vasilyevich was that he did not impose the students themselves, while our neighbors, such as Robert Rafailovich Falk , , leaving small "falkovyata" or small "konchalovyata", and subsequently had them for a long time to find themselves . Shevchenko worked with everyone in his manner, that is found in the work of its inherent characteristics and in the context of these qualities led him to talk to him ».

Twelve years of dedicated Shevchenko pedagogical work in VHUTEMAS -- VHUTEINe, six consecutive years he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Painting, the five years he headed the department easel, a year - a decorative office, five years as Chairman of the substantive committee, two years - a member of the Board VKhUTEMAS. In addition, in 1920 Shevchenko took part in a panel of monumental art in creating INKhuK (Institute of Artistic Culture), as well as in the pilot commission painting-sculpture and architectural synthesis Rakhno (Russia Academy of Artistic Sciences).

A workshop Shevchenko have been dozens of students and the names of many of them - Peter Williams , for example, or Andrei Goncharov - now widely known, but their works are the "gold reserve" of national art mid-twentieth century. Suffice it to say that organized in 1926, Company "shop painters" consisted mainly of students of Alexander Vasilyevich. But it all ended, of course, bad. In the archives of the artist's family to save a draft of his letter addressed to the People's Commissar of Education Bubnov. Undeserved harassment, dismissal of colleagues, publicly accused of "corrupting influence" Shevchenko was forced to leave the institute. "I'm surprised to hear about my disorganizing influence on young people at a time when the work and activities of my former students everywhere are highly appreciated by the relevant public art institutions" - the artist wrote.

In plans of the State Tretyakov Gallery is the exhibition on the occasion of 125 anniversary of Aleksandr Shevchenko, "The Ark" also recalls the names of some of his followers. A comprehensive exhibition of works by all the pupils Maitre, perhaps, simply not possible: in addition to many years of work in VHUTEMAS artist taught at the Lenin Academy of Architecture, Central School of Industrial Art, later renamed the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (MIPIDI), Moscow Textile Institute.

In addition, he became the teacher for my daughter, Tatyana Alexandrovna Shevchenko - artist-painter, which has had a special influence on the formation of a creative program of gallery "The Ark". Rostislav Barto, Valery Kapterev, Olga Sokolova, and other masters of the "circle of Shevchenko and had never once been participants of exhibition projects gallery. The current exhibition is based on the Moscow private collections. The exhibition consists of works of different decades of the twentieth century: how to remember another follower Shevchenko, Vasyl Pochitalov, "his disciples all left in spirit devoted to art by artists».

The exhibition runs until January 24, 2010 .

Source: kovcheg-art.ru