A large retrospective of Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842-1910) was opened in Lavrushinsky. Presents more than 180 works from 23 museums and one private collection

the State Tretyakov gallery
6 Oct 2018 — 17 Feb 2019
Moscow, Lavrushinsky lane, 12

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842-1910) — one of the most prominent Russian artists of the XIX century. He made a breakthrough in art searches of his generation of painters, has created a special type of a romantic landscape, was able to find the original art for the realization of the beauty of nature.

the Art of Kuindzhi is closely linked to the traditions of the Wanderers. In his works, he fused the experience of the previous development of landscape painting, transformed Russian and European romanticism, the achievements of the French Barbizon school, the Impressionists and open a brand-new for that era decorative theatricality in easel paintings.

In the Tretyakov gallery an exhibition of outstanding landscape painter of the last was organized in 1992. She was represented by a part of the artistic heritage of the wizard, mostly finished works. In the current exhibition, alongside famous paintings, you can see numerous studies and sketches. It is in the process of their creation the painter experimented a lot, being in constant creative search. The first acquaintance with the preparatory work has occurred on two posthumous exhibitions organized by the Society Kuindzhi in 1913 in Saint-Петербурге and in 1914 in Moscow. The second meeting was held in 2007 at the exhibition organized by the State Russian Museum on the basis of the rich material received in 1930 from the Society Kuindzhi.

the Current project will represent a much expanded exhibition of more than 180 selected works. The exhibition includes paintings and works from the collection of the Tretyakov gallery and the Russian Museum, the works from 19 of the largest regional collections and also museums of the CIS countries — Azerbaijan, Belarus, and from one private collection.

the Exhibition sheds-новому discover the identity of Kuindzhi. The artist consciously used in his work the latest discoveries of physics and chemistry. Innovation Kuindzhi is due not only to the formal aspects of painting, but also with the understanding of the unity of world and man, which was very close to the next generation of masters of the early twentieth century. Courage treatment Kuindzhi with flowers and paint, which seemed to his contemporaries daring and often remained inexplicable, finds its continuation in the work of his students, including N. Roerich, A. Rylov, K. Bogayevsky, F. Ruszczyc, N. Krymov. Kuindzhi opened up rich prospects for future art — symbolism, expressionism, primitivism, Fauvism.

Source: press-релиз GTG