Personal exhibition of Rostislav Barto
ARTinvestment.RU   26 сентября 2016

In the Pushkin Museum on the Arbat, on 6 October the first in many years, a solo exhibition of paintings and graphics by Rostislav N. Barto (1902-1974)

Paintings, drawings and monotypes Rostislav Barto have an amazing ability to please the audience of different degree of readiness. The craftsmanship of his work convincingly speaks for itself. Barto long been appreciated by collectors, works of different decades are stored in many museums. But the man shows it was not for many years. Gallery "the Ark", who has frequently represented the work of Rostislav Barto as part of group exhibitions, was the initiator of the monographic Museum exhibition.

Contemporaries remembered Rostislav Barto as a bright artist's romantic nature. He was born in Moscow, since childhood, fond of music and fine arts. In 1920-е years studied at the graphic Department of the higher art of Ignaty Nivinsky, of kupreyanov, Nikolay, Vladimir Favorsky. Then moved to the painting Department in the class of Alexander Shevchenko, a meeting with whom became crucial for creativity Barto. They were United in their lot: a similar understanding of the role of art, positive attitude, perseverance in work. Addiction to recent French art, love to romance, a reverence for the East... Friendship with the teacher and continued after graduation.

His thesis "tea Harvest" (1929) Barto wrote under the guidance of Shevchenko, the materials brought from joint visits to the Caucasus. Fascination with the South and East not just then manifested in the works of Barto. By the beginning of 1930-х, already having been in the ranks of the "Guild of painters", he became a member of the creative Association "Genesis". For the pre-war decade, the young artist managed to visit Samarkand, Khiva, Ferghana, Bukhara — where with the beginning of the war, evacuating many Soviet artists. For them, the theme of the East will be partly forced, Barto turned to her willingly. In addition to the development of monotype, at that time, he wrote a lot and oil, was engaged in drawing. First solo exhibition was held in 1933.

War the artist met in Moscow. In the defense of the city he wrote a series of landscapes — but not the city, with rays cut through the sky searchlights or balloons, and suburban, with a modest explanation of nature. However, the disturbing mood of those days elusive felt in them: it conveys the restrained color palette gouache and watercolor drawings. In the late 1940-х Rostislav Barto decided to try my hand at lithography. The artist draws, works with oil paints, gouache and watercolour, a significant place in his works is a monotype. In 1956-м held another solo exhibition. In the postwar years, the artist continued to travel, a great number of works were brought to Moscow from creative travel to the Crimea, Armenia, Georgia, Transcarpathia.

In the early 1960-х the art of Rostislav Barto experienced a new rise. As evidenced by his contemporaries, in the last fifteen years of his life Rostislav Barto seemed to have found a second wind.

Source: press-релиз of the exhibition



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