Exhibition Bear Tales Automatic translate

From April 21 to June 19, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, as part of the Year of Ecology, will host the exhibition "Bear Tales", which will display objects of decorative and applied and folk art, representing the image of a bear in Russian culture. The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to environmental problems and one of the most famous animals of Russia - the brown bear.

In Russian traditional art, the image-symbol of the bear was most vividly reflected in both oral art - in fairy tales, epics, traditions, songs, rites; and in material culture - clay and wooden carved toys, popular prints, in art casting and engraving on metal, in miniature varnishes and enamels, in bone and stone carvings, in works of art made of glass and ceramics.

The exposition of the exhibition is built on the basis of thematic tales: Bear - the owner of the forest, Bear and saint, Bear and hunting, Bear fun, Bear in literature, Bear in a toy, Bear in heraldry and emblem, Bear in art. Each tale is illustrated by the corresponding exhibits from the collection of the Museum.

A man often met with the “master of the forest” a bear during a “silent hunt” - picking berries, mushrooms and herbs. Therefore, the exhibition presents not only sculptural images of bears, but also a lacquer miniature with scenes of collecting forest gifts and landscape views, as well as genuine “tools” of the collector - a motley, a car body, a robber (a scoop for picking berries). The tale is supplemented by album sheets with sketches of the forest by S. P. Gorbunova of the 1950s, painted trays of Nizhny Tagil and Krasnoyarsk.

The second tale, “The Bear and the Saint,” tells of a famous episode from the Life of St. Sergius of Radonezh, who shared bread with a hungry bear. The exhibition presents a wooden spoon with a carved image of St. Sergius and the bear by the famous miniature carver I. S. Khrustachev, who lived in Sergiev Posad in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, the visitor learns about the legend of the Vetluzh region “Why the bear began to be afraid of man.”

In the third tale, “The Bear and the Hunt”, a 1900 edition will be presented with illustrations by the artist Nikolai Samokish to Lev May’s poem “The Deliverer”. The plot of the poem is borrowed from a historical incident that occurred with Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich during a hunt in the Zvenigorod forests. It is known that the king was attacked by a bear and was miraculously saved by the Monk Savva Storozhevsky. You can also admire the sculpture according to the model of the sculptor N. I. Liberich “The Hunt for the Bear” (Kasli, 1949), the panel of the Zagorsky master V. I. Sokolov “The Attack of the Bear” (1932).

Fairy-tale characters from the section “The Bear in Literature” are represented, among other things, by exhibits of varnished miniatures. In 1933, the artist of the Mster lacquer miniature Alexander Kotyagin based on Leo Tolstoy’s fable “Two Comrades” painted the box “The Parable of the Two Men”, and the hero of N. Nekrasov’s comic poem “General Toptygin”, which ridicules the veneration of people, is depicted on the box of the same name in Kholuysky craft, painted by the artist Valentin Krotov in 1964.

The tale “Bear in a toy” is vividly illustrated by folk art crafts - the Bogorodskaya, Dymkovo, Kargopol, Filimonov, Khludnev toys. Masters often turned to the image of a bear, sculpted it from clay and cut it from wood.

The bear is also present in the coat of arms of the cities: Novgorod the Great, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Rybinsk, Khabarovsk, Cherepovets, and others. In the section “The Bear in Heraldry and Emblem” rare book editions of the Russian coat of arms of P. P. Winkler “Coats of arms of cities” and the historian- heraldist V. K. Lukomsky "On heraldic art in Russia." And of course, the tale of a bear in heraldry and emblem would not be complete without the official symbol of the Olympics-80 - Olympic bears made by the masters of Gzhel and Konakovo.

The last tale, “The Bear in Art”, represents the work of artists of different times: a glass vessel “The Bear” (Russia, XVIII century), a drawing of the bear painting on the tree of E. G. Telyakovsky, a vase “Two fighting bear cubs” carved from stone models of P. A. Balandin. Here it will be possible to get acquainted with the sketch of A. I. Denshin “Bear on a Tree” (1926). The artist is known for saving the craft of the Dymkovo toy at the beginning of the 20th century.

The exhibition is complemented by popular print sheets, fabric designs for the first half of the 20th century and rare books of the 19th century.

The sculpture "Olympic Bear". 1979 Author: Kokovikhin N.A. Konakovo Faience Factory named after M.I. Kalinin. Kalinin region., Konakovo district, Konakovo. Majolica, colored glaze, relief, painting.

Leaf "Bear on a tree", Vyatka. Author: Denshin Alexey Ivanovich. 1926. Paper, coloring, printing 21.5 x 23.

Kutepov I.N., Samokish N.S. The book "Deliverer: The Poem of May". Illustration of the artist Nikolai Samokish. St. Petersburg: Expedition of procurement of government securities. 1900 Samokish N.S. (Author of the picture) Cardboard, lederin, paper, color printing, gold printing, black-and-white printing

Sculpture "General Toptygin" Model-1956. Execution 1963. Author: Maksimov Nikolai Ivanovich Artist: Badaev N.N.

Tile "Guide with a bear"

Sculpture "Olympic Bear". 1979-1980s Production Association "Gzhel". Moscow region, Ramensky district, village Turygino. Porcelain painted underglaze cobalt