Yesterday in the Yekaterinburg Museum of Art opened an exhibition of drawings and watercolors of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg

yesterday in Yekaterinburg Museum of Art opened an exhibition of drawings and watercolors Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

MA Vrubel relates to key turn of XIX - XX centuries. He is known primarily as a painter, author of "Demons" - sitting, flying, prostrate, paintings of Pan "," Hero "," Swan Princess "," six-winged seraph. Its extensive graphical legacy is less familiar to the audience and displayed only in temporary exhibitions. Meanwhile, the glory of a brilliant painter and watercolorist virtuoso entrenched for Vrubel more with the academic bench. Engineering work in watercolor, pen, graphite pencil or Italian, charcoal, pastels were His Throne in equal measure. Anatomical Studi and watercolor costume class, performed in the period of study at the Academy of Fine Arts, portraits and self-portraits of the artist, and later graphic cycles "Insomnia", "Kampanuly", "Shells" (1904) - suggest the artist's ongoing dialogue with nature, his constant effort by all possible means to approach her comprehension, "to catch her beauty».

in the exposition contains a number of different years: sketches of the early period, in which the artist appears as a true disciple and follower of PP Chistyakov . A special place is bright female characters, with special preference, he certainly gave his beloved wife - NI Zabel Vrubel Made up something in the shape of sea princess, just a nice portrait sketches, where the beloved face each time sounds in differently.

MAVrubelja had a lot given by nature, very much he was able to realize, much remained to understand and people who came to the exhibition of works by great masters.

The exhibition runs until October 31, 2010.

Source: museum.ru