SRM, 9 September — end of October 2014
Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Millionnaya str., 5/1

In the marble Palace opened the exhibition "cinema poster from the collection of the Russian Museum". The exhibition allows us to trace the development of Russian film posters of the first third of the twentieth century, for example, more than 100 exhibits of the silent film era from the collection of timing. Pre-revolutionary poster became very characteristic, the most interesting specimen of popular art that expresses the tastes of a wide audience. Powerful the heyday of the genre was in the 1920-ies, when the movie poster to the efforts of artists of the Soviet avant-garde became the property of great art despite its initially applied prednaznacheniyu@

cinema poster reflected the major artistic trends of the era: a stylized primitivism prints, exquisite compositions of modernism and, finally, concise, conditional forms constructivism@

Artists carefully developed a variety of techniques of plastic expression, including a montage. The exhibition presents the work of the first Russian kinoplakata (G. Alekseev, M. Kalmanson, P. Zhitkov) and masters of the avant-garde (Lavinsky, brothers V. G. Stenberg, N. Prusakov, M. Wexler, and other).

Источник: rusmuseum.ru