Today in the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum exhibition at the famous Russian artist Petr Konchalovsky. The exhibition presents about 120 paintings and drawings from the collections of museums and private collections organizers

Today, March 28, at the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum exhibition at the famous Russian artist (1876-1956). The exhibition presents about 120 paintings and drawings from the collections of museums, organizers and private collections. New Paintings from the Collection of the artist's family, rare archival materials, documents and personal belongings of the master.

special emphasis in the exhibition is on the 1910's, when Konchalovsky was a member of the famous of "The Knave of Diamonds" (1910-1917), whose main task was Updated easel painting based on a kind of synthesis of Plastic discoveries of French post-impressionism and the traditions of Russian folk art. Keen interest Konchalovsky creativity of artists such as Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Picasso, is reflected in a series he created in the 1910's, still lifes, landscapes and portraits. These works differ in degree of conventionality in the interpretation of full-scale motif, but always retain a sense of high scenic culture, inherent and later works Konchalovsky. Along with a powerful, expressive stylistics of post-impressionist paintings and the Cubists, another source of distinctive manner of painting that the artist is art Protorenessansa, with whom he consulted during his trip to Italy in early 1910-ies.

in post-revolutionary decade, the direction of creative search Konchalovsky was associated with consistent development of the heritage of the old masters and the traditions of Russian realistic painting of the XIX century. This is reflected in the created in 1920 "the Novgorod cycle, as well as portraits and still lifes before the war. A notable case in point self-portraits and portraits of family and friends of the artist, where the characteristics can be shaped to accentuate the sound as optimistic and tragic tone (the famous portrait of Meyerhold created shortly before the death of the great film director). The postwar works Konchalovsky showed that by the end of his life he maintained the independence of artistic positions, which generally coincided with the main trend of development of Soviet art 1920-50-ies, however, maintained continuity with a plastic conquests of the Russian avant-garde early twentieth century.

Exhibition jointly with Petr Konchalovsky Foundation and the State Tretyakov Gallery, with the support of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture of Russia.

exhibition will run until June 2010.

Source: rusmuseum.ru