Tonight at the State exhibition hall "Manege" exhibition at graduate and student work students of Arts in St. Petersburg. They talk about one of the most romantic periods of the life of our country - the era of thaw

State exhibition hall "Manege", December 20, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Moscow, St George's Lane., 3 /3

Tonight State exhibition hall "Manege" presents "The Soviet neo-realism," which brought in an exposition about 100 graduate and student work students of Arts in St. Petersburg. They talk about one of the most romantic periods of the life of our country - the era thaw

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This exhibition - part of a large-scale project on the St. Petersburg academic art school. Long skhoronennye in funds student works - paintings, architecture, graphics - presents a panorama of academic life from 1953 to 1968, from the death of Stalin to the Prague Spring.

ALEXANDER SKOLOZUBOV Female portrait. 1958 paper, lithography. A: 47 × 62, and 39 × 51 Head - VA Vetrogonsky Metodfond faculty schedules

Bair GOMBOZHAV Dual staging. 1967 canvas. 100 × 125 Head - IA Silver Metodfond Faculty of Painting

One of the most significant events of life then was the fall of the Iron Curtain, which, of course, he fell in one day, but significantly brought new life with a sensual woman, infinitely elegant and stylish car music. We may have not realized themselves as part of Europe, but feel the spirit of free creativity.

Petersburg Academic School, with the apparent isolation, hierarchy and almost monastic way of life, constantly undergoing internal changes while maintaining This focus on the classic examples of traditionalism and proclaiming the only possible method of fundamental art education. The most drastic change in the Academy being accomplished at the end of XIX century - then here to open a personal workshops, one of which was in 1894-m led Ilya Repin, convert academic landscape and changed the idea of ​​painting as such.

Elbrus Sakkala Dual staging. 1965 canvas. 132,5 × 101 Manager - EE Moiseenko Metodfond Faculty of Painting

OLEG Gadalov Geologists. 1963 canvas. 139 × 200,5 Head - M. Neprintsev BAT Mr. X

Post-Revolutionary volcanic period, the period of the New Economic Policy was marked by enthusiasm Deco. Following this, the secularization of art, striving to make it the driving mechanism of the communist ideology, to visualize the idea of ​​party-building and work, happiness and well-being for a long time identified the development of the school. This is reflected in the strengthening of the hierarchy of genres, and in the method of teaching disciplines. After Stalin's death and the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Academy has received from the authorities of the long and indigestible name and the Order of the Red Banner on a velvet banner, became a member of an important process of familiarizing the Soviet people to the European culture. It was not the vanguard, but certainly a highly professional team.

About one mind out of the question, it was the time of competition. Now it seems that Mylnikov and Moiseenko very close creative artists. But in reality they were opponents and their heated debates, many remember. Moiseenko was emotional, Mylnikov - rassudochen. Moiseenko was a student Osmerkin, Mylnikov - student Oreshnikova and Grabar. Johansson appeared rarely, preferring hospitable spicy Moscow snobbish self-sufficient Leningrad. Still taught Silver, Zaitsev, Neprintsev, Ugarov and many other very worthy artists and educators. In the theater workshop worked Michael P. Bobyshev, fed miriskusniki. And the graphics department - Alexei Fedorovich Pakhomov, one of the founders of the association "Circle" and founder of the Leningrad school of children's books. In general, children's book, children's publishing houses have been a haven for talented artists made it possible not to change the creative and life principles.

Oleg Savelyev Project studobschezhity town in the northern district of Leningrad. 1966 Indian ink. 99,7 × 98,7 Head - II Fomin BAT Arts

Sergei Shmakov The project planning and construction of the State University campus. 1962 Paper, ink, colored pencil, watercolor. 68 × 132,6 Head - II Fomin BAT Arts

Institute of Architecture taught Adolfovich Eugene Levinson, a connoisseur and lover of classical architectural forms, the author of the wonderful train station in Pushkin, and a number of constructivist and postkonstruktivistskih clubs and homes. Another was a teacher there Barutchev Armen K., one of the pillars of the Leningrad constructivism, was created in the 1920s, new social projects of buildings and homes. For him, as for Levinson declared appeal to functionalism meant a return to the days of his youth, when it is such an architecture is welcomed.

When you look at student work, we have created in the years keenly feel the time and realize that this is a mixture of the "Soviet" with "western" has a huge attraction, it is a unique cultural phenomenon and a very personal story.

Simon Michael

Source : Press Release CVM "Manezh»