The exhibition presents the works by famous Soviet artist Alexander Labas (1900-1983) who is one of the leading masters of the Society of Easel Painters. His creative oeuvre became a bright and an original phenomenon in fine arts of the 1920`s - beginning of the 1930`s. The exhibition includes 110 paintings and graphic works from the collection of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, The Federal State Cultural Establishment Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve, The Bahrusin State Museum of Theatrical Arts, The State Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, The State Perm Art Gallery, as well as from the private collections.
The main part of the exhibition is the artist’s works of the 1920`s-1930`s, where the original fundamental distinctive features of the Society of Easel Painters aesthetics are found. Among them there is a keen interest to plastic findings of Russian and foreign avant-garde of the beginning of the XX century and aspiration to embody the intense rhythm and dynamics of modern world in expressive form of art.
The exhibition also includes an electronic catalog that gives viewers an opportunity to get acquainted with the works created by Labas in the postwar decades. One of the main characters of the artist’s works is a technique such as cars and airplanes, trams and Moscow subway escalators.
Shifting of forms and their unusual foreshortening gave the artist an opportunity to recreate a dizzying sense of space seen from window of rapidly hurtling train or a cockpit. At the same time, in the images that are dedicated to the latest technical innovations or future conquest of space, the author found his own poetic manner, consonant to his perception of the world. This feature of the artist’s works is especially clearly revealed in his portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, marked by emotional spirituality and subtle sense of color.
Ilya Repin. To the 175th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth
3 october 2019—9 march 2020
The exhibition will feature more than 250 paintings and graphic works by Ilya Repin: recognized masterpieces by the master and his little-known works, as well as memorial items related to the life and work of the artist.
4 july—2 september 2019
The exhibition of the first avant-garde association of Russia will present about 200 items: paintings, graphics, scenographic projects, as well as posters and archival materials.
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
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