The exhibition will be presented more than 100 masterpieces of Armenian and Russian Art XVIII - XX centuries from the collections of the National Gallery of Armenia, the home-museum Saryan, Yervant Kochar Museum and the Museum of Russian Art (collection A

From September 14 to November 14, 2010 in the Main building Pushkin Museum. Pushkin will show "Two colors of the rainbow - two destinies reflection ...»

The exhibition will feature more than 100 masterpieces of Armenian and Russian Art XVIII - XX centuries from the collections of the National Gallery of Armenia, house-museum Saryan, Yervant Kochar Museum and the Museum of Russian Art (collection A. J. Abrahamian).

project is timed to 100 anniversary of Pushkin Museum. Pushkin and is part of the series "Under the canopy of amicable muses" (the art collections of the CIS countries). The exhibition program "In the Shadow of the Muses amicable", initiated a few years ago, the museum's director, IA Antonova, is of increasing importance in the context of radical political and economic changes occurring in the former Soviet Union. The aim of the project - to demonstrate publicly that the cultural space has no boundaries, and geopolitical changes can not stop people's desire to preserve the overall spiritual and historical memory.

Armenian Art exhibited in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin is not the first time. In 2004, the Year of Armenia in Russia, in a museum with a very successful exhibition "Relics of Holy Echmiadzin, presenting arts and crafts of medieval Armenia.

The exhibition" Two Colors rainbow - two destinies Reflection ... "includes the best works of Russian art from museums in Yerevan. Among the famous names is enough to mention B. Borovikovsky , Dmitry Levitsky , OA . Kiprensky , VISurikova , I. Levitan , In . Serov . Represented the leading masters of art associations beginning of XX century: Alexander Benois , MVDobuzhinsky , ZE Serebryakova («The world of art»), V. Borisov-Musatov , PV Kuznetsov («Blue Rose"). The exhibition includes works Vasily Kandinsky , Marc Chagall , NS Goncharova , II Mashkov , R. Falk .

Among the works of the Armenian school of painting - canvases MS Saryan , as well as great artists, OA and AM Ovnatanyanov, SA Nersesyan and many others. A significant event will be a meeting of the Moscow audience with the plastic arts of the sculptor E. Kochar. And of course, this exhibition can not do without seascapes IKAyvazovsky , which can be equally well count and the Russian and Armenian artists.

prepared for the exhibition 180-page catalog.

Curators: from the National Gallery of Armenia: IV R. Bagdamyan; from the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin: NB Avtonomova.

Source: museum.ru /gmii

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