The exhibition displays 250 works of drawing and painting people's artist of the RSFSR May Miturich from the family collection and the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery

Today, Oct. 12, in the halls of the Art Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli (Prechistenka, 19) opens an exhibition of works of National Artist of the RSFSR May Miturich (1925-2008). The exhibition - graphic and pictorial works.

Creativity MP Miturich, wonderful graphics, a recognized master of children's books, is well known in this country and abroad. More than a hundred books, designed the huge numbers published and the reader is always in demand - they have become classics of the domestic graphic arts. Numerous local and international exhibitions have brought him the love and recognition of the viewer. Mural painting, executed in conjunction with B. Duvidovym , adorns the interiors of the Paleontological Museum in Moscow. His skill has received the highest praise of professionals. Works of M. Miturich are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, the largest Russian and foreign museums and private collections.

exhibition includes more than 250 graphic works and paintings from the collection of the family, as well as from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery. The viewer is given the rare opportunity to trace the creative evolution of the famous wizard, the process of gaining them a unique visual style and see the previously exhibited works from his artistic heritage.

successor to the great traditions of Russian culture, the covenants of the parents, well-known artists P. Miturich and Khlebnikov, May Miturich was devoted to asceticism, art, endlessly worked, traveled, never tired of studying, learning new techniques, forms and techniques of art in striving for excellence and universalism.

Exposition opens the earliest pictorial experiments of the artist - paintings, in which more significantly influenced by the work his father - Peter Miturich, picturesque sketches of the 1940's, written in the years when in front of the brigade of artists he walked the roads of war, ending it in Berlin. Here - a number of field sketches and watercolors from the vast series created by M. Miturich during numerous trips to the country, foreign travel. A separate section of the exhibition presents graphic portraits of artists, writers, critics, friends, family members, which the author created over a lifetime. Among them - the portraits of Chegodaeva, D. Kugultinova, V. Duvidova, P. Miturich, etc.

Its centerpiece is the book illustrations - the famous watercolors and lithographs of works by S. Marshak, K. Chukovsky, G. Snegireva, Rudyard Kipling, a collection of Mikhalkov, B. Zakhoder , A. Barto, Krylov fables, folk tales, "Odyssey" of Homer, which grew more than one generation of young readers and have become a vivid expression of his own visual language of the artist. Successor of the Leningrad school - traditions Lebedeva , B. Konashevych , E. Charushin , , May Miturich acquired its own name in this splendid constellation.

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No less significant part of the exhibition given to works of easel paintings and graphics created in 1990-2000. The viewer sees colorful collection of full-scale watercolors and ink drawings on Japanese paintings to the famous haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, the Japanese illustrations of fairy tales. Original oil paintings are portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, compositions based on the book illustrations. For the first time will be exhibited paintings on biblical themes by a master in recent years.

His works, filled with love for peace, a man full of admiration for nature, good humor, leave no one indifferent. Such a complete exposition of his work - a unique opportunity to meet with the world and the era of MP Miturich-Klebnikov.

The exhibition runs until November 14, 2010.

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