Peredvizhniki and Impressionists. On the Way to the 20th Century
The exhibition 鈥淧eredvizhniki and Impressionists. On the Way to the 20th Century鈥� was prepared specifically for the 37th International Music and Arts Festival 鈥淒ecember Nights of Sviatoslav Richter鈥�. Irina Antonova, the Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, has traditionally been the curator of this project. The exhibition continues the museum鈥檚 longstanding display strategy based on interplay between Western and Russian art. The unified exhibition space presents outstanding art works by Russian peredvizhniki and European impressionists from the holdings of the largest museums of the Russian Federation, bringing together the two brightest phenomena in 19th century art. The artistic and stylistic approaches of peredvizhniki and impressionists are different in many respects, but unexpected points of convergence and similarities can be found.
The exhibition includes about 80 items, including pieces by masters of the 19th and 20th centuries, paintings and graphic works by French and Russian artists from the holdings of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and works by peredvizhniki from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and other museums.
A scientific research paper by the great art history scholar Nina A. Dmitriyeva (1917鈥�2003) provides the intellectual foundation for the project 鈥淧eredvizhniki and Impressionists. On the Way to the 20th Century.鈥� Her research approach was to explore Russian art within a global context, highlight its individual traits, and identify its place in the domain of the European traditions. The article 鈥淧eredvizhniki and Impressionists鈥� summed up her studies and reflections on the evolution of a generation of artists in France and Russia with differing philosophies and views of life who nevertheless were inspired to oppose academism and follow various paths to achieve similar goals.
In line with the author鈥檚 original idea, the curator group created a representation of the unified cultural process, showed the context of artistic life in Russia and in France in the late 19th century, and correlated two phenomena by bringing together the best art works representing each movement. The display allows comparisons of paintings by Edouard Manet and the canvases of Ilya Repin and Vladimir Makovsky, Alfred Sisley and Alexey Savrasov, Valentin Serov and Pablo Picasso, Nikolay Yaroshenko and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mikhail Vrubel and Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec.
The exhibition halls also present famous works of post-impressionists Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gaugin. These masters do not share the artistic methods of impressionists, but they were included in the program as contemporaries and the younger peers of the impressionists.
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The exhibition 鈥淧eredvizhniki and Impressionists. On the Way to the 20th Century鈥� was prepared specifically for the 37th International Music and Arts Festival 鈥淒ecember Nights of Sviatoslav Richter鈥�. Irina Antonova, the Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, has traditionally been the curator of this project. The exhibition continues the museum鈥檚 longstanding display strategy based on interplay between Western and Russian art. The unified exhibition space presents outstanding art works by Russian peredvizhniki and European impressionists from the holdings of the largest museums of the Russian Federation, bringing together the two brightest phenomena in 19th century art. The artistic and stylistic approaches of peredvizhniki and impressionists are different in many respects, but unexpected points of convergence and similarities can be found.
The exhibition includes about 80 items, including pieces by masters of the 19th and 20th centuries, paintings and graphic works by French and Russian artists from the holdings of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and works by peredvizhniki from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and other museums.
A scientific research paper by the great art history scholar Nina A. Dmitriyeva (1917鈥�2003) provides the intellectual foundation for the project 鈥淧eredvizhniki and Impressionists. On the Way to the 20th Century.鈥� Her research approach was to explore Russian art within a global context, highlight its individual traits, and identify its place in the domain of the European traditions. The article 鈥淧eredvizhniki and Impressionists鈥� summed up her studies and reflections on the evolution of a generation of artists in France and Russia with differing philosophies and views of life who nevertheless were inspired to oppose academism and follow various paths to achieve similar goals.
In line with the author鈥檚 original idea, the curator group created a representation of the unified cultural process, showed the context of artistic life in Russia and in France in the late 19th century, and correlated two phenomena by bringing together the best art works representing each movement. The display allows comparisons of paintings by Edouard Manet and the canvases of Ilya Repin and Vladimir Makovsky, Alfred Sisley and Alexey Savrasov, Valentin Serov and Pablo Picasso, Nikolay Yaroshenko and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mikhail Vrubel and Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec.
The exhibition halls also present famous works of post-impressionists Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gaugin. These masters do not share the artistic methods of impressionists, but they were included in the program as contemporaries and the younger peers of the impressionists.
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