The exposition is devoted to the field of "new classicism" that has spread to France, Italy and Germany between the two world wars. The works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film and fashion design

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
Vacationers gladiators. 1928-1929
, oil on Canvas. 157 x 198
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1 October at the Guggenheim Museum (new-Йорк) opened the exhibition "Chaos and classicism: art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936", the theme of which is the transformation of European culture in the period between the two world wars. This is the first such exhibition in the territory of the United States.

After the horrors and chaos of world war I European culture and art in search of eternal values returned to the classic style. Replaced the pre-war experiments came the themes of heroism and human rationality. One hundred and fifty works by over 80 artists — painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film and costumes — demonstrate the attempts of a return to order in its individual manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity of the Paris avant-garde, political theory of the revival of the Roman Empire under the rule of Mussolini, functional utopianism of international style architecture that originated in the Weimar High school construction and artistic design — "Bauhaus", and coming to the cold aesthetics of the emerging Nazism.

the exhibition presents works by outstanding masters of this period: Georges Braque (Georges Braques), Carlo Carr (Carlo Carrà), Giorgio de Chirico (Giorgio de Chirico), Otto Dix (Otto Dix), Fernand Leger (Fernand Léger), Aristide Mayol (Aristide Maillol), Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso), gio Ponti (Gio Ponti), Emil-Жака of Rulman (Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann) and August sander (August Sander). You can see works by artists lesser known outside their home countries: Bessie Julius (Julius Bissier), Casorati Felice (Felice Casorati), Achille Funi (Achille Funi), Marcel Gromer (Marcel Gromaire), Erbina Auguste (Auguste Herbin), Anton Hiller (Hiller Anton), Charle Henry (Heinrich Hoerle), Ubaldo Oppie (Ubaldo Oppi) and Milly Steger (Milly Steger). Many of the works, the exhibition, which was first demonstrated in the United States.

the First years after the end of world war I modernists declared the return of traditional aesthetics: "return order" in France, "the return of art" in Italy and "New objectivity" in Germany. Picasso became a leader of the new historicism and influenced the advancement of this classic aesthetic from 1918 to 1936.

Picasso, even though he was a Spaniard by birth, from 1904 onwards he lived permanently in France. His figurative paintings early 1920-х illustrate how well the Paris avant-garde has incorporated a new post-war aesthetic. "Chaos and classicism" presents several of his works, as well as other examples of this style, such as the canvases of mechanized figures and Leger painting "Commedia Dell'arte" Andre Derain (André Derain) and Gino Severini (Gino Severini). A prominent place in French art of the time takes the idea of Latin civilization by Jean Cocteau (the exhibition features excerpts from his 1930 film "Blood of a poet"). The architecture and design of Le Corbusier (Le Corbusier), as well as his purist paintings together with Ozanfanom amédée (Amédée Ozenfant), conduct a visual link with abstraction and synthetic cubism. Neo-греческая fashion Vienne Madeleine (Madeleine Vionnet) and the objects of Rulmana in the style of ar-деко translate obscure theoretical aspects of "imitation of the classical" in the language of functional objects.

the Publication "Return to craft" de Chirico in the magazine Valori Plastici about Renaissance painters fra Angelico (Fra Angelico) and Piero della Francesca (Piero della Francesca) played a huge role in the revival of classicism.

the exhibition also features paintings by Massimo Campigli (Massimo Campigli) and Giorgio Morandi. Architectural models and design objects, including the layout of the building Casa del Fascio Italian town of Como on the project Terragni Giuseppe (Giuseppe Terragni) and porcelain Ponti, demonstrate the influence of the neoclassical paradigm on Italian modernists. Classic sculpture has been widely developed in post-war Italy. Its examples can be seen at the exhibition.

Synthesis of classical forms and modern technology Mies van der Rohe became Central to the phenomenon, overpowered expressionism in interwar Germany. The exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, one can see elements of his German Pavilion in Barcelona (1929), including a naked sculpture "Morning" by George Kolbe. Also represented the modernist paintings of one of the renowned teachers of the Bauhaus Oskar Schlemmer (Oskar Schlemmer), addicted to art of the Renaissance, in particular works of Piero della Francesca. In Weimar Germany opposes expressionism movement "New reality" led the search for the aesthetic "purity". The works of Dix, Georg Scholz (Georg Scholz), Georg Shrimpf (Georg Schrimpf) and Shnarrenberger Wilhelm (Wilhelm Schnarrenberger reflect this rationalist approach along with the portraits of August sander. However, modernist aesthetics of Germany leads the audience to show the dramatic conclusions. While the Weimar Republic collapsed and Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the new classicism — Parisian myths, Italian role of the game and the German search for objectivity was gruesomely transformed into a doctrine of racial superiority of the Aryans.

the Exhibition "Chaos and classicism: art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936" at the Guggenheim Museum will run until January 9, 2011.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

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