Photo: exposition fragment with Moonlit Night on the Dniepr by Arkhip Kuindzhi (1882) in the background, Tretyakov Gallery
The canvases by Nikolai Ge, Ivan Kramskoy, Ivan Aivazovsky and Arkhip Kuindzhi became exhibits of The Moon exposition, which opened in Grand Palais exhibition center in Paris. The Blue Landscape painting by Marc Chagall is placed on the poster. The exhibition is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the man’s first flight to the moon and shows how artists depicted the closest satellite of the Earth at different times, Russkiy Ochevidets reports.
Visitors of the Moon exhibition can see such paintings as Christ and the Disciples Going out into the Garden of Gethsemane by Nikolai Ge, The Mermaids by Kramskoy, Moonlit Night on the Bosphorus by Aivazovsky and Moonlit Night on the Dniepr by Arhip Kuindzhi. Paintings arrived in Paris from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. Each of them depicts the moon or moonlight, which become one of the main motifs of the canvases.
The authors of the exhibition placed a lot of information about the Moon, but at the same time decided to present it as a mystical object that attracted the attention of artists and thinkers for centuries. Responding to a question from French journalists about the reasons for the appearance of Russian art in such quantity at the exhibition, the exhibition curator Alexia Fabre explained that the canvases of Russian artists best suited to the subject of the exhibition. In addition, the authors of the exhibition wanted to acquaint the Western public with Russian artists better.
Russkiy Mir
