Exhibitions "Zinaida Serebryakova" in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts Automatic translate

In the exhibition hall of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts on October 30 at 4 pm the opening of the exhibition “Zinaida Serebryakova”, dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the world-famous artist, will take place.

At 15-00 a press conference will be held on the theme "Opening of the Cultural and Exhibition Center of the Russian Museum" in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts.

For the first time in the history of Kaluga, 30 paintings and graphic works by Z.E. Serebryakova from the collections of several museums of the country - the Russian Museum, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts and the Tula Regional Art Museum. The exhibition presents both the pre-revolutionary and foreign period of creativity of the remarkable artist. Particularly valuable exhibits include the well-known works of Serebryakova, which made up the glory of Russian art - “Bath”, “Peasants”, “House of Cards”, “Study of a Girl (Self-Portrait)”, “Ballet Lavatory (Swan Lake” ballet).

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova (1884-1967) was a brilliant master of painting of the 20th century, a participant in the World of Art association, one of the first Russian women to enter the history of world painting. She grew up in an art family of several generations of artists (her father is the sculptor E.A. Lansere, uncle is a painter, graphic artist, theater artist, art critic A.N.Benois, her brother is a famous Soviet monumental artist and graphic artist E.E. Lansere), Zinaida Serebryakova from childhood has absorbed the best humanistic traditions of Russian culture. Having not studied for a long time in private schools in St. Petersburg and Paris, she joined the exhibition life in Russia at the turn of the 1900-1910s and immediately won universal recognition. And it was not only a peculiar beauty, the classicism of the most picturesque manner of Serebryakova. She quite definitely expressed the charming feminine principle, the simplicity and credulity of her soul, a clear and calm view of the world.

In the future, the focus on classical subjects and motifs in her work was preserved. In her peasant scenes, Serebryakova relied on the tradition of A.G. Venetsianova - poet of rural life and peasant labor. Serebryakova willingly used the angles, complex turns of the figures, but she never dramatized the images, preserving peace, contemplative greatness, and monumentality.

Serebryakova’s creativity is very multifaceted. A beautiful draftsman and delicate painter, she worked in various genres. The exhibition presents her multi-figure compositions, portraits, landscapes, still lifes. Among the exhibits there are a number of excellent self-portraits of the artist, each time completely different in state, according to the pictorial problem, according to the thought embedded in them. Of great interest are works belonging to two significant series - “Moroccan” and “ballet”. Written with amazing pictorial mastery, they embody the author’s ideas about the harmony of human life and nature.

Zinaida Serebryakova is an exaltedly dreamy artist, calm, detached from the troubles of the time, facing a beautiful past and classical traditions. A man of a generous soul, Serebryakova left a significant creative legacy, marked by the poetry of life, lyrical feeling, and genuine nationality.

The exhibition will run from October 30 to December 14, 2014, from 10:00 to 18:00, on Thursday from 11:00 to 19:00. The day off is Monday. Inquiries by phone: 56-28-30.

Exhibition Hall of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts: ul. Lenin, 104.