The Museum-Panorama "Borodino battle" an exhibition devoted to the anniversary of the Great Victory

The Museum-Panorama " Battle of Borodino "an exhibition" Faces of War ", dedicated to the anniversary of the Great Victory.

Museum for the first time so widely is its unique collection of front-line figure of more than 700 items. The collection reflects the continuity of the heroic feat of the people of our country in two World War II (1812 and 1941-1945). The exhibition features 113 works - made on the front of the drawings created on the basis of their posters, as well as military cartoons. Visitors will see works of great masters - V. Bogatkin , L. Golovanov, Zhukova , Kukryniksy , with more than 20 authors, most of whom were directly involved in hostilities.

Front artists have been with the Red Army from the Volga to Berlin, experienced the difficulties of military campaigns. They were equally familiar and weapons, and palette. Before the guests of the exhibition will be yellowed from time sheets. These modest works, characterized by its simplicity, gives vivid picture of life on the front, retain features in the war. Accumulated in a minute rest between battles, drawings affect the accuracy of perception, for which divine their inner significance. After all, while working on drawings of front-line artists, not based on stories of war veterans or their views about the war, but on what he saw, experienced, felt, and traveled personally. Like footage of a documentary, they reflect the annals of war - "severe autumn" at Moscow, Stalingrad was heroic, war in the enemy rear, the victorious offensive of the Red Army ... Front-line drawings are very diverse. Here, portrait sketches, images of combat scenes, the postwar landscape ...

special atmosphere in the exhibition hall is created because the works of artists are complemented by genuine items (awards, weapons, items of uniform) wartime . Visit the exhibition is accompanied by selected passages documentary newsreel.

exhibition is open until October 31, 2010.

Source: museum.ru