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Soviet Impressionism
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June 2004, the Gelos Naslediye Gallery will feature Soviet Impressionism,
an exhibition that will give the educated audience an opportunity
to familiarise themselves with a vast and interesting part of the creative
life of this country in the 1950s to the 1980s. Landscapes, still lives
and portraits by talented painters Makarenkov, Schetchikov, Tolkunov,
Gremitskikh, Machkin, Vaneev, Sergeeva and other authors will please the
most experienced audience.
Today, when galleries abound in "bourgeois art", so comfortable, emotionally
positive, fabricated and conflict-free, the spontaneity and frankness
inherent in the works of the Soviet period sound especially up-to-date.
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The Gelos Naslediye Gallery features Russian painters of the 2nd half
of the 20th century whose works are notable for high-quality painting,
extraordinary style of each author and self-sufficient artistic importance.
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Landscape Painting of the 1970s: Other Unofficial Art
Between 22 April and 22 May 2004, Gelos Naslediye Gallery housed The
Landscape Painting of the 1970s: Other Unofficial Art, a new exhibition
uniting art heritage of several artists: A. Imkhanitsky, A. Mitryashkin,
A.Makarenkov, A. Schetchikov, N. Tolkunov, N. Melnikov and others.
Formerly, the generation of the "artists of the sixties" made
a name for themselves opposing official art. The recusants' heritage was
generally considered as an independent current in the 20th century art
life, many names became famous, many others were included in the catalogue
Other Art and thus occupied their place in the general art system.
Unofficial art de facto became official. It brought up a few dozens of
names, all the rest remained a mystery, took a back seat in the art empire.
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Today, the Gelos Naslediye Gallery presents the authors whose creative
work is little known to the general public. It appears really different
from the official art of the 1970s. Urban and rural landscapes by Imkhanitsky,
Mitryashkin, Makarenkov, Schetchikov and Melnikov hardly keep within the
traditions of the socialistic realism, although they can't be called anti-soviet,
unofficial, expressing social protest in the manner of the "man of
the sixties" either. Calm and all-sufficient, thoughtful and lyrical
art concurred with the period of socialistic realism and the beginnings
of the pop-art alike. This is the reference to the human inner life that
makes this art deeply contemporary and humanistic today. Stealing beauty,
poetry of homeliness, clear mist over a bridge over a circular railway,
fields of blooming clover, swimming boys and gay catchlights on the river
surface - all these images are dear and familiar to anybody from little
up. They appeal to values common to all mankind and appear more popular
than the remonstrant abstract or conceptual art of the 1970s.
We invite everybody to visit the exhibition and choose paintings
to suit your taste.
On 14 April, a new Gelos Naslediye Gallery's 100-meter hall roomed
a presentation of the exhibition of Leonid Petrovich Tikhomirov,
honoured artist of Russia, full member of the International Academy
Creative Work. Simultaneously, a specialised demonstration
of the collection of antique silver, which is coming back into "antique"
fashion, was held for honourable guests and mediamen invited. DETAILS...
Personal Exhibition of Leonid Petrovich Tikhomirov
at the Gelos Naslediye Gallery
Between 6 and 20 April, the Gelos Naslediye Gallery featured a personal
exhibition of honoured artist of Russia Leonid Petrovich Tikhomirov, full
member of the International Academy Creative Work. The artist,
in his landscapes, refers to the best traditions of the Russian realistic
painting of the mid-19th to the 20th century, longs for revealing the
very essence of a natural phenomenon. Today, his heritage enriches the
modern culture with an old-hat art comprehensible to everybody.
Tikhomirov's creative work is extremely stable. In the course of
years, he was consistent with the national tradition drawing inspiration
from both nature and art: peredvizhniks and painters from the Association
of Russian Artists. His landscapes and portraits are far-famed.
The Gelos Naslediye Gallery features paintings of different creative
periods, lyrical and pathetic 1950s, impressive and monumental 1960s,
spontaneous 1980s.
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Whole Collection of Works by L.P.Tikhomirov
The Gelos Naslediye Gallery announces the exhibition of
Galina Gerasimova The Flowers of My Life. The exhibition
held between 5 March and 5 April 2004 is a part of a new project
launched by Gelos Auction House to find and reveal the unknown heritage
of Russian painters of the 20th century. The Gelos Naslediye Gallery
presents a collection of works by painter Galina Alexandrovna Gerasimova,
(1918-1979), daughter of famous Soviet painter, member of the Academy
of Art, A.M. Gerasimov.
Today, lyrical, moving and truly female art of Galina Gerasimova has
been almost forgotten. During the Soviet period, her works were less socially
loaded and famous than paintings after her father, Alexander Mikhailovich
Gerasimov. He was one of the most renowned artists of the Stalin Era,
"the Kremlin's most favourite painter", author of works on which subjects
school compositions were always written, After the Rain. Wet Terrace
(1935), I. V. Stalin and E.A. Voroshilov Taking a Walk within the Kremlin
(1938).
During the Soviet period, Galina studied painting with her father's friends
from the Academy of Art, following in her landscapes and still lives the
best traditions of the Russian realism. In war-time, her works were displayed
in the show-cases of the Show-Room on the Kuznetsky Most Street alongside
with military posters "The TASS's Windows". She was written about in central
newspapers, copies of her still lives with flowers and fruits were published
in thousands on postcards, which maintain for many people the unforgettable
fragrance of their child's memories.
The Gelos Naslediye Gallery's collection features paintings of the
late 1960s to the 1970s, one of the most interesting periods of
the painter's creative life.
Galina Gerasimova's buyoant, naive and technicolor manner manifested
itself in full measure in her last creative years.
Her paintings, so shrilly sincere, breathe with rapture over the fleeting
beauty of the world. They express, in simple and unsophisticated forms,
the spontaneous emotional sensation of reality. The paintress could instinctively
feel the colour and made many intense tints sound harmoniously as to composition
of her works. In a way, her paintings resemble canvases after Henri Matisse,
who used pared-down drawing and 2D image to convey his impression directly.
Once, compositionally simple landscapes, roses in crystal vases,
luxurious lilac branches and gifts of autumn beautified the old
estate of Galina Gerasimova's father in the settlement of painters.
Today, paintings by the talented heiress convey an impression of
the stealing beauty of her life.
The exhibition will feature several works by her father, A. I. Gerasimov:
portrait of his daughter Galina in the garden, one of the variants
of lilac After the Rain. Wet Terrace and others.
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Collection of Works by G.A. Gerasimova
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Gelos Naslediye ['Heritage'] Gallery is a new branch of Gelos
Auction House's activity. For 15 years of successful work, the
Gelos has gained the necessary potential to conduct large-scale
research activities. We are in art business and know how unfair
life can be to the creative work of many artists. The Foundation's
experts aim at searching and finding talented artists and whole
groups of artists active in the mid-20th century. A wide-scale exhibition
activity supported by the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture,
the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Association
of Russian Artists and many other organisations interested in developing
and populirizing the Russian art has been outlined.
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