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Itinerant Artists exhibition opened in Shanghai

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Itinerant Artists exhibition opened in Shanghai


14.12.2017

Flickr/MartinoExhibition of collections from the Tretyakov Gallery has started in China. Exposition representing works of painters of the 19th century Russian realist school called Peredvizhniks (Itinerant Artists) is located in Shanghai, TASS reports. The gala opening ceremony will be held on December 14.

Almost seventy paintings are among the exhibited items of the museum. Many of them are included into the permanent exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery. Apart from the paintings themselves, frames represent great artistic value too.

Exhibition is divided into several parts. The first hall displays paintings of artists of 60ies of the 19th century. They anticipated foundation of Partnership of Peredvizhniks exhibitions: works by Pryanishnikov, Klodt, Morozov, Pukirev and Trutovsky. They were the first artists to depict life of simple people, the poor of the city and peasants.

Shanghai residents will get acquainted with pictures from the first exhibition of Peredvizhniks, including The May Night by Kramskoy, portrait of Kostomarov by Ge, Fisherman by Petrov and others.
The second central hall consists of paintings by the greatest artists included into the Partnership of Peredvizhniks such as Myasoedov, Surikov, Repin, Vasnetsov, Polenov, Levitan.

The last exhibition hall of smaller size compared to the first two ones presents paintings of artists unrelated to Peredvizhniks. These artists were tightly related to the Art Academy of Russia, which did not have close relations with Peredvizhniks. People can contemplate works by Bakalovich, Bronnikov and Makovsky.

Organizers of the exhibition have explained that their works were included into the exhibition dedicated to Peredvizhniks for the first time. This was the way to show opposition of these two art directions.

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