Alexander Konovalov. Return. Watercolor Silver age
ARTinvestment.RU   21 сентября 2016

Today in the Gallery of arts Zurab Tsereteli opens the exhibition Alexander Konovalov from the collection of the gallery "vellum". The exhibition includes about 40 works of 1900-1910

We are well aware of the names of Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Benois, Vyacheslav Ivanov and Anna Akhmatova, Vaslav Nijinsky and IDA Rubinstein — heyday of symbolism in Russian art. At the same time aloof from associations and groups exist, the authors who created works of art no less power than their famous contemporaries. One of them — S. Alexander Konovalov (1889-1952).

Alexander Konovalov was born in Moscow in 1889. In 1903 the desire for independence and poetic sentiment has led fourteen-year-old lady at the Stroganov school. In 1906 the school was temporarily closed, and Konovalov with his friends went to Paris, where he stayed for about a year, when visiting the Studio colarossi painting in the halls of the Louvre and finding inspiration in a café in Montmartre.

"first and foremost, a huge influence on the work of Konovalov, of course, had Mikhail Vrubel... the Myth, the cult of the amazing teetered on the verge of waking and sleep", — situationbased Love Agafonov, Director of the gallery "vellum".

Wrobel not the only genius who left his mark in the chart Konovalov. She was close to the manor and dreams of Victor Borisov-Мусатова. She, like many of his contemporaries, poets and artists who used narrative, literary motifs in their works, drawing inspiration from the epic, the tale or the Gospel story. Watercolor Konovalova entire generation and the face of Russian symbolism.

the exhibition presents works of art Konovalov, written mostly at the turn of the 1900-1910-х. "Long, like threads of rain, watercolor brush strokes ("After explaining," Ruslan and Lyudmila") are replaced by their pearly transparency ("the Rhine Gold", "Captive Snake"). By the end of ten years of Konovalov's commitment to originality resulting in colorful poster candor compositions, to compile the figures ("the bleaching of the canvas")".

Complete retrospective of watercolors that S. Alexander created on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1934-1937 he worked at the business of Vsekohudozhnik. Artist and here he continued his myth-making, returning to the favorite motifs of the early twentieth century. Portraying the dance of shamans ("Ritual dance"), she's fascinated not only by the colors of the earth, but people living in this mysterious world.

the Circumstances of life Alexander Konovalov is still not fully understood. From the creative heritage of the master come down to us only watercolor — remarkable works of art worthy of a place in the history of culture. At the opening of the exhibition will first be shown a documentary film "worlds best Beach", a story about creativity and the fate of Alexander Konovalov (author: Love Agafonov).

Source: press-релиз of the exhibition



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