By the 55 th anniversary of the popular children's magazine "Fun" Tretyakov Gallery opens an exhibition of the best pictures from the collection edition

Today, 14 December, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Krimsky Val, 10, hall № 80-82) held a press screening (14.00) and Opening Day (16.00) Exhibition "Fun».

• Happy Birthday!
  sketch illustrations for the magazine
  «Fun»
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• Cover of" Fun. " 1956, № 9
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By the 55 th anniversary of the popular children's magazine "Fun" Tretyakov Gallery opens an exhibition of the best pictures from the collection of publications. On most beloved magazine several generations of children can only speak in superlatives: the total circulation of the Jolly images "in all the years of the issue is about 5 billion copies, it printed nearly 3 million images and 100 thousand stories of his readers live in 40 countries.

Boris Fridkin Cover of" Happy Images. "1957, № 9 Source: Press Release THG

EUGENE MIGUNOV Cover of" Happy Images. "1963, № 10 Source: Press Release THG

magazine was first published in 1956, in the wake of Khrushchev's thaw. The idea of the creation belonged to a talented cartoonist" krokodilovtsu » Ivan Semenov . It was not just children, but also a unique cartoon humor magazine.

Ivan Semenov gift illustration for the magazine «Fun». № 6 Source: Press Release THG

VLADIMIR Suteev In kindergarten Illustration for magazine «Fun». № 6 Source: Press Release THG

Original "Fun" had a horizontal format, reminding student album for drawing. Most of the pages were filled with expressive drawings, stories, with brief remarks, placed in a "bubble" - a classic version of the comics. They created the best artists cartoonists, illustrators of children's literature, animators Semenov, V. Kanevsky , B. Suteev , A . Laptev , K. Rotov , V. Brewers , I. Kabakov , R. Varshamov, S. Tyunin, F. Yarbusova, A. Estis, E. Gorokhovskiy E. Milutka, E. Nazarov, S. Alimov, V. Gorbachev and others. The Birth of the Jolly pictures "supported by well-known children's writers and poets, which became its authors - S. Marshak, A. Barto, B. Zahoder, C . Mikhalkov. Later they were joined by a younger generation of writers, among them Eduard Uspensky, G. Oster, J. Sash, M. Usachev.

At the height of the Cold War under the auspices of the Komsomol appeared Journal-Soviet "sense. The challenge accepted norms looked like the protagonist of" Happy pictures "- Pencil, invented by I. Semenov. At a time when the very word" intellectual "evoked mixed reactions, leading character in the children's magazine was a charming man with a pencil instead of a nose, dressed the "bourgeois" takes blouse with a red bow around his neck. Everything in his appearance meant freedom of thought, openness, creativity. Following a pencil on the pages of the magazine there was a whole crew of Merry fellows: Samodelkin, Parsley, Dunno, long "Russified" Pinocchio and Chipollino, Thumbelina and the hero of the Czech anti-Fascist underground Hurvínek. The first art editor of the Jolly pictures » Vitaly Statsinskomu belonged to the idea of creating a regular column "The meetings of the Club of Merry fellows" - a hidden travesty of meetings and congresses that followed in the country one after another. Whether by strange coincidence, either because the officials of the ideology decided that the publication of drawings and minimal text, can not represent any danger, "Fun" were the only country in the mass media, have never been mandatory for the Soviet press censorship.

YURI UZBYAKOV First September Illustration for the magazine « Fun ». № 6 Source: Press Release THG

EDWARD Gorokhovskiy Summer sketch illustrations for the magazine «Fun» Source: Press Release THG

In 1977, led the journal began Ruben Varshamov - a famous illustrator. It was open to everything new, extraordinary, actively involved in the work in the journal of young artists and writers. Keeping the best traditions Jolly pictures ", he began to work actively on the design of the magazine changed the layout of covers," playing "with the format. Number of the Jolly pictures" splits into a huge sheet-game with pictures, inside the magazine appeared the original tab, the application. In 1978, in line with these pursuit of a famous artist Victor Pivovarov created a well-known logo of the magazine today.

united in its pages a first-class image and text, "Fun" is developing a child's personality contributed to the expansion of his horizons, and revives the tradition of family reading .

MICHAEL bit Cover of" Happy Images. "1978, № 3 Source: Press Release THG

EUGENE MILUTKA Going into the New Year's fairy tale. Cover of "Fun". 1983, № 12 Source: Press Release THG

exhibition shows about 280 images of artists - authors of "Merry images" that have cooperated with the publication from 1956 to 2000. This is the original magazine illustrations from the collection, numbering about 5,000 works. Most of the works never previously exhibited. Along with pictures of the classics of Soviet graphic - V. Kanev, V. Suteeva, I. Semenova, K. Rotova shows sheets now world-renowned artists in contemporary art - I. Kabakov, V. Pivovarova, E. Gorokhovsky. In the years of stagnation, they received the official status of graphic artists through collaboration with Detgiz and periodicals, including "Fun." Drawings for a magazine they were active artistic quest, experimenting with fonts, shape, space sheet ratio images and text. The results of these searches are translated into well-known works of artists easel.

Ilya Kabakov Kubik closed Illustration for the magazine «Fun." 1978, № 12 Source: Press Release THG

Viktor Pivovarov Long Bull Illustration for the magazine «Fun». 1984, № 8 Source: Press Release THG

first exhibited watercolor sheets Yarbusovoy F. (1980), educational multi-figure drawings of R. Varshamov games of the series, "Show them to me "and" Historical Adventures of Merry creatures, large-format originals of board games, reaching the two-meter size.

FRANCESCA YARBUSOVA Admission to the pioneers Source: Press Release THG

RUBEN Varshamov The Adventures of Merry fellows c Baron Munchausen. Ball in the palace of Catherine Illustration for the magazine «Fun», 1995, № 12 Source: Press Release THG

attract the attention of the audience and the work of one of the best cartoonists of the world S. Tyunina, including a comic "Merry Men at BAM "(1982), as well as drawing, executed in watercolor and ink, a prominent French cartoonist Jean Efelya" Santa Claus and sleigh "(1970).

SERGEI Tyunina Pencil in Paris Cover of "Fun". 1989, № 6 Source: press Release THG

One of the exhibition halls set aside for the play area for children. There will be children's drawing competition, theatrical performances involving dolls - the heroes of the Jolly pictures ", there will be interactive games.

exhibition will run until February 20, 2011.

Source : Press Release THG