The exhibition includes works by Fyodor Semyonov-Amur, as well as Gregory Gromov, Pavel Ionov, Alexander Maximov, Ivan Smirnov, Igor Shelkovskoy

In the gallery "The Ark" (Moscow, Russia. Nemchinov, 12) an exhibition of "Nails hats up", which presents works by Fyodor Semyonov-Amur , as well as Gregory Gromov, Pavel Ionov, Alexander Maximov , Ivan Smirnov, Igor Shelkovskoy .

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Do not nail caps down .

FA Semenov-Amur. From the artist's notebooks

... They met a painting by Henri Matisse. At the turn of the "thaw" the Pushkin Museum, curled up shortly after the death of "the best friend of athletes' protracted four-year exhibition of gifts to Stalin from grateful citizens and foreign friends, slowly took out from the store and hung in the halls for everyone to see his treasures:" Haystack at Giverny "and" Boulevard des Capucines in Paris "by Claude Monet," Rendezvous "by Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh painting ... turn came to matissovskoy Blue vase with flowers on a blue tablecloth».

It is at This canvas, who had just returned to its original location in the walls of the Pushkin Museum, the young artists, students of Art College Memory of 1905 Igor Shelkovskiy turned man of fifty, in a dark suit and tie, as it later turned out, also an artist, Fedor Semenov-Amur. At that time the museum was open late, talking about art has continued on the street, on the way to the house of a new acquaintance, and was resumed after a few days: Fedor, then living with his wife Elizabeth Izmaylovnoy Eliseeva in a communal gladly invite new friends to look at their own work. Studio of Fedor, despite his long creative experience, still not there: he was "waiting for thirty years and was finally a room-foam, where the cleaners kept it until the bucket" - even in our days Shelkovskiy writes in his memoirs. The second encounter, the prolonged after midnight, marked the beginning of a long creative communication.

At the turn of the 1960 round of Semenov-Amur gradually formed a circle, if not outright students, all the same - his comrades in art . They sought to work his own way and found in Semenov-Amur bright and original master teacher - albeit not too often appears in official exhibitions of the Union of Artists, but a marked effect on the minds of colleagues and companions. Later this communication with conversations about art in general and specific work in particular has moved first to the artist Gregory Gromov's apartment on Solyanka, and then - under the roof of Shelkovskaya in Prosvirin lane. "Location of the workshop was an attractive collection of friends - says Shelkovskiy. - And we soon began to make a one-day exhibition and discussion. To this end, the walls were freed, and they hung up that everyone wanted to show others. The company was divided into two age groups: students Semenov-Amur were the older generation. Mutual criticism was merciless ».

Today, more on hearing the names of the" Youth Section "of these meetings - Dmitry Prigov , Boris Orlov , Rostislav Lebedev . However, we are interested in a creative way Gregory Gromov, Pavel Ionov, Alexander Maximov, Ivan Smirnov, Igor Shelkovsky. Circle of those who may be called his disciples and comrades Semenov-Amur, it describes a lithograph executed in 1979 by Alexander Maximov, acquainted with the Semenov-Amur during a joint operation in the Experimental lithographic workshop on the Upper Maslovka. This impression is called "On the birthday of the Moscow artist Ivan Smirnov ...", it captures most of the surrounding-listed Semenov-Amur artists. In addition, the image is provided with thorough copyright text. Maksimov, always inclined to mix words and images and enthusiastic genre "arrangements Russian popular prints, in particular, cites the most Semenov-Amur:" I am not a teacher, a prompter. The teacher leads a prompter prompts. Teacher kills, making do "for themselves, and prompter fixes».

Given that the identity of the Semenov-Amur attracted artists and individual identities, we can speak not only of their unanimity, but neslitnosti who set about their tasks. Moreover, that the impulses of creativity Maitre read in the drawings, lithographs and paintings by Alexander Maximov, in black and white graphics Gri-Gro (both from 1950 signs his work Gregory Gromov) and executed in oil on paper landscapes Ivan Smirnov. Survived a couple of pieces, literally achievement of mutual influence of artists: in the first place, this "interpretation" of landscape sketches, written by Smirnov in Ostankino in May 1963, at the same time made Semenov-Amur to its principles. A year later, "Portrait of the wife" was actually co-written by Smirnov and Semenov-Amur: "Fedor was at my dacha - Smirnov wrote on the back of the work - and I gave him my started underpainting. He did, in his own processed. It is noteworthy that this same portrait was of yet another "interpretation" - repeats the track, but to fundamentally change the color solutions paintings of Pavel Ionov. The problem of "sink in color, seeking coloristic harmony with minimal tonal gradations - the main theme of his art. Dialogue with the Semenov-Amur, the quotations from his sayings and advice there are many other surviving works of different authors. Paying tribute to the "prompter" in 1970, Smirnov executed in oil on paper, "A double portrait painters Picasso and Semenov-Amur».

«Ark" is not the first time refers to creativity is extremely original masters. In 2002 a solo exhibition of works of Semenov-Amur from Moscow private collections of his paintings and drawings appeared in "irrelevant Museum of Art" (2004), at the exhibitions "From Dusk Till Dawn, The Long Summer" (both - 2009).

worth recalling his biography. Fedor Vasilievich was born in 1902 in Blagoveshchensk-on-Amur (hence the nickname, and later), where his parents came to the break-out of the village Pokrovskoye Tomsk province and his mother worked as a laundress, his father was sawyers forest. School of Industrial Art Fedor began to attend along with their studies at secondary school. Since 1923, he worked as an illustrator in the regional newspapers' Amur truth "and" Young Guards ". In 1925 Fedor Semenov-Amur Amur was sent Gubernia Komsomol in Moscow, in Vhutemas. In 1925-1930 years he was - a student of graphic faculty Vkhutemas-Vhuteine, and his teachers - Vladimir Tabor , Peter Miturich , Nicholas Kupreyanov , Peter Lions . In 1933, after serving in the Red Army, Semenov-Amur joined to the graphical section of the Moscow Union of Artists. Since that time he began to participate in the metropolitan exhibitions. Despite the fact that the post-war years - a period of creative flowering of the artist, at this time his works have almost disappeared from the show, and all the works in 1946, has received a label formalism. Creating up to thousands of products a year, he almost never showed them at fairs and not sold, earning a living retouching photographs for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1960-1962, before his retirement, Semenov-Amur participated in the restoration of the panorama "Borodino battle". His first solo exhibition was held in Moscow in 1967 - according to the priorities of the "time of physicists and poets, headed by a Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences. The second and last solo exhibition in his lifetime was opened in the Small Hall of the Central House of Artists in 1976. Four years later, in July 1980, Fedor Semenov-Amur died.

Semenov-Amur left not only a great visual legacy, dispersed in museums and private collections, but also textual heritage still waiting for analysis and publication. Chubby notebooks filled in the genre of "a day without a line, include the artist's reflections on art, worldly and" professionally oriented "aphorisms - some of them have been reproduced in the catalog of his exhibition in Paris" Physical Characteristics "(1988), held through the efforts of Igor Shelkovskoy and organizers of this exhibition with pleasure as they reproduce. The main reason is the current exhibition - a request to the phenomenon of mutual influences and hears him master the environment and its commanding lead and at the same time - the breaking of plastic ideas Semenov-Amur in the art is so different from each other, original authors as Gregory Gromov, Aleksandr Maksimov, Pavel Ionov, Igor Shelkovskiy, Ivan Smirnov. Find work of some of them was not easy - especially if it was about the things the 1960's, the peak of their creative dialogue. However, the authors hope to show that the current exposure is not the last step in the study of their heritage. Once wrote Semenov-Amur, "the most difficult - to study undecideds».

exhibition is open until March 20, 2011.

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