Exhibition complex SHM
10 February — on April 11 2016
Moscow, Revolution square, 2/3

Leonid Shishkin Gallery in collaboration with the State historical Museum in February of 2016 is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the 135th-летию since the birth of the artist Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov (1881-1963), the first President of the USSR Academy of arts, laureate of four Stalin prizes.

As a student Arkhipova, Korovin, Serov, fan Repin, he left in the genres of still life and landscape are many good examples of Russian impressionism. However, many artist better known as one of the main founders of the Canon of Stalinist social realism. The exposition will include about 100 works from museums and private collections. This large-scale exhibition Alexander Gerasimov in Moscow was not in the last 50 years.

Alexander Gerasimov: "I have always loved to paint the flowers: roses and peonies, as seen in them limiting the concentration of vitality of nature and its charm. They're like-то by-особенному excited my creative imagination, teased huge opportunities rich colorful incarnations. When I had to see the fury and passion rose writes Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin, when I repeatedly admired the paintings of blooming peonies in the flower garden near Moscow Gulyaevka, I felt their duty to the art, the duty of the artist to reflect in their colors of these beautiful creatures of nature. Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin, of course, did it better than me! In his rose more tenderness, poetry, lightness. I, like stepniak, rose other: the power of abundance and earthly forces of fertility Chernozem".

Source: shishkin-gallery.ru