Russian Museum, 13 August – 13 October 2014
St. Petersburg, state Russian Museum, Benois wing

In the State Russian Museum opened the exhibition "family Portrait". The exhibition includes more than 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the collection of the Russian Museum, private collections and artists ' studios. Ways of development of a family portrait in Russian art can be traced from the earliest examples of this genre of painting and graphic arts of the eighteenth century, the portrait and thematic painting of the second half of XIX — early XX century, affecting different aspects of the life of a Russian family with its traditions, holidays and everyday sabotage@

Massive section devoted family portrait of the Soviet era, includes works by such masters as Н. I. Andronov , Ф. P. Bogorodskiy , Д. D. Zilina , Е. E. Moiseenko , А. A. Mylnikov , and others. A special place in the exposition is devoted to the motive, quite widespread in the domestic arts, the image of the artist in the circle of his family. Socio-critical aspect of the theme is revealed in the installation of contemporary St. Petersburg creative group "Sorcery artists".

Next to the picturesque and graphic works, the exhibition presents a photographic section which includes an archive of family photographs, as well as mediainstance created on the basis of photographs given to the Russian Museum residents Sanktpeterburg@

Источник: rusmuseum.ru