The exhibition features works by famous masters of Russian avant-garde, nonconformists and artists of the late twentieth century

MMSI, July 23 - August 19, 2012
Moscow, Gogol Boulevard, 10

In the Moscow Museum of Modern Art this week opened an exhibition of "Twentieth Century: Music».

recent years, Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents exhibitions on a regular basis in the style of contemporary art, so it might seem that part of the collection, representing previous stages in the development of art, disappeared forever in the vaults of the Museum. Due to numerous requests from visitors renewed demonstration of products, rich historical context, which reflected the twentieth century, with the diversity of trends and directions, with the controversial move of his artistic events.

NICO PIROSMANI sign the" Company go. " 1910 Metal, Oil Source: mmoma.ru

Boris Grigoriev woman. From the series «Intimite». 1916-1917 Oil on canvas Source: mmoma.ru

The exhibition presents the work of Russian avant-garde classical first quarter of the XX century, without which an understanding of creative processes century as a whole. The museum boasts a collection of works by the main representatives of this movement: Kazimir Malevich , Wassily Kandinsky , , Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov , Natalya Goncharova , , Petr Konchalovsky , Boris Grigoriev , Alexander Archipenko Alexander , Elijah Chashnik , Edward Krimmer , Vladimir Vladimir Dmitriev and others.

A separate room is devoted to Niko Pirosmani . Many avant-garde inspiration in the art of self-taught artists and exhibited their paintings alongside his. Pirosmani - the legendary and tragic personality. Throughout his life he lived at home in Georgia, however gained worldwide fame as a master of primitivist direction. Pirosmani is the author of works on the theme of animalism, portraits of contemporaries, national types. The artist has used a certain set of colors, which at first glance may seem stingy, but the brevity of this monumental gift to manifest integrity and a special way.

viewer also seem a curious section of the display of virtuoso sanguine Basil Shuhaeva , representing the neoclassical direction - the opposite of avant-garde in general, but paradoxically supplementing it. Shukhaiev lived a long, full of dramatic events of life. He made his career before the Revolution, traveled a lot. After a long stay abroad in the 1930s, he returned to Soviet Russia and was soon arrested. After ten years of exile in Magadan, Shukhaiev moved to Georgia, where he became a professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts and beloved teacher .

Mikhail Shvartsman Tokko. 1966 hardboard, oil Source: mmoma.ru

BORIS SUKHANOV first appointment. 1927 Watercolour Source: mmoma.ru

separate hall occupy the exhibition works by artists of the Russian diaspora. Today, the Russian audience with surprise discovers the art, until recently, hidden under a bushel. The uniqueness of the museum's collection is that in a relatively short period of time were collected by a first-rate works by artists of immigrants - Boris Boris Anisfeld , , Serge Sharshunov , , Vladimir Baranov-Rossini , Ivan Puni , Izdebsky .

At least a significant part of the collection is a body of works of painters and graphs 1930-40s - the generation of graduates of Higher Art - Vhuteine ​​- students Mashkov, Lentulov , Konchalovsky. Undeservedly forgotten names Leo Tolstoy Solovyov , Nikolai Tarasov , Raube-Gorchilinoy , Boris Sukhanov , Pauline Krayts , Boris Boris Petrovich Bulgakov . Their "quiet", full of dignity was lost in the wilds of the art of socialist realism triumphed. Today we are opening their new work.

CONSTANTINE Stargazer Cossacks Writing a Letter. 2005 oil on canvas, plastic Source: mmoma.ru

important section of the exhibition includes works by artists-nonconformists 1960-70s. The "second avant-garde," as they like to call it art, born of the official organ of the state of confrontation, in an atmosphere of daring exhibitions prohibited - for example, the famous "bulldozer", set up in 1974 in the open air Belyaevo. Among the artists of this circle stand face major epochs: Oscar , Vladimir Nemukhin , Eduard Steinberg , Michael Schwartzman , Dmitry Krasnopevtsev , Tselkov , Vladimir Yakovlev , Anatoly Zverev . Close to the unofficial master of arts adjoin so-called "left Moscow Union ': Hilary Golitsyn, Pavel Nikonov , Nikolai Andronov , Natalie Egorshin , Irina Starzhenetskaya, and others.

Finally, the outline of the history of twentieth century art complete the post-modern generation of artists, whose handwriting is ironic honed in Furman and squats Trekhprudny Lane. Their work has shocked the audience at the youth shows in the Arena and the Kuznetsky, fill newly created, post-perestroika Gallery of Modern Art. , Vladislav Mamyshev Monroe , Dubossary and Alexander Vinogradov , Konstantin Zvezdochetov , , George Litichevsky, , Sergei Mironenko , Paul Pepperstein and others like to return the controversial avant-garde atmosphere, thus closing a historic cycle. Difficult to understand how the artistic life of the last century, the viewer is invited.

Source : mmoma.ru