In the Church Museum of the Moscow diocese of the ROC in the Novodevichy Monastery, an exhibition of Russian artists-realists P. Ossovsky, VY Yukina, N. Modorova, NA Mokrova, VG Kokurina, VF Letyanina , A. Lobkovsky, etc.

Ecclesiastical Museum of the Moscow diocese ROC, April 3 - June 30, 2011

The first church museum Russia "Church Museum of the Moscow diocese ROC" (House of the Novodevichy Convent Sof'in) opened an exhibition of Russian artists-realists "Temples Holy Rus." It is devoted to the phenomenon of Russian painting, as a "spiritual landscape", and dated to the time of Lent and Easter.

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« Landscape holds a special place in the hierarchy of genres in Russia. Since its formation the national landscape was not only a picture of the attractive landscape, but express the amount aesthetic and ideological values ​​that distinguish the Russian consciousness. In a double as such an idea can be applied to the landscape, a composition which includes an image of the Orthodox churches. Several years ago, one of the leading local artists, MG Abakumov offered introduce a special notion of "spiritual landscape" , meaning by it not only images of places associated with the spiritual tradition, but the kind of painting, which involves identifying the underlying meanings that define the search and aspirations of our people.

NATALIA PANOVA Novodevichy Monastery. 2005 Oil on canvas. 80 x 60 Source: press release of the Development Fund for Education and the Arts

AND It is worth noting one of the specific features of national culture. This is the inseparability of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of work in the arts and wider - the unity of the ethical and spiritual. The initial connection of beauty and morality, morality and appreciation of the man that there is something that is better than you on all scales, set the direction of the whole cultural sector and the arts in particular ... »

Paintings fullest correspond to the time thinking about beauty, morality, and myself in this world. Communicating with the picture requires reflection, tranquility, unity both with the blanket, and an artist, designs and embodied the image of the motherland. And during Lent - a time of awareness of their place in life, overcoming, heroism, humility and atonement. Therefore, it was during Lent, it was in the Novodevichy Convent - a place that is so important for Moscow and all Russia in a historical, cultural and spiritual level, location, allows you to link past and present - held a picturesque exhibition of paintings by the "spiritual landscape", carefully selected from Collection Development Fund for Education and Arts.

PETER Ossowski Pskov Kremlin. 2008 Plywood, oil 121 x 90. Source: Press Release Development Fund for Education and the Arts

«presented at the exhibition of the collection of the Development Fund education and arts rich in names of mature, well-known, recognized artists whose works are dated from 1960. It was a difficult period in history of art. Something from the experience of previous decades, to remember and rediscover what is born, something is continuing its development. Therefore, the exhibition features seemingly contradictory trends ... »

In three wards Sof'in harmoniously and severe style pictures PP Ossovsky , AA Tutunova and emotional works of Vladimir painting school VA Potekhin , VY Yukina , H . Modorova N. , NA Mokrova , VG Kokurina , DA Choline, Alexander Smirnov , OG Izmailov, and ... plastic painting of Nizhny Novgorod AI Frolova , VF Letyanina , AA . Lobkovsky, Ivanivtsi MS Ageeva , luminous canvases Vologzhanina VN Strakhov ...», and many others.

NICHOLAS WET North motif. 1992 Oil on canvas. 39h49. Source: Press Release Development Fund for Education and the Arts

«The world of Russian art, the world of Russian culture , acquiring the spiritual space of Russia multidimensional. Everyone will find their place here, your voice. But to combine them into one accord of the memory of the past and belief in the future ».

exhibition" Temples of the Holy Russia "in the Church Museum of the Moscow diocese ROC (Sof'in Chamber Novodevichy Monastery) will be open for visitors from 3 April to 30 June 2011, daily from 09.00 am to 17.00 pm (admission until 16:45). Output: Tuesday.

Quotes taken from the review Doctor of Arts, VE Kalashnikov, "Landscapes in Russia. About the exhibition "Temples of the Holy Rus'" »

Source : Press Release Development Fund for Education and the Arts