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Without Borders
Exhibition December 7, 2018 − February 24, 2019
Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition "Without Borders". Visitors to the exhibition will see the collection of national painting of the first half of the twentieth century belonging to the museum, in particular, the works of the 1920s – 1940s.
“Without Borders” is a difficult story about a living creative process in the period of the formation of a totalitarian state. After all, if the 1920s were a time of artistic diversity, the equal existence of various creative associations, then already in the 1930s all domestic and foreign artistic trends were transferred to the category of malicious. A single “grand style” was created — the obligatory and heroic social realism. Many artists have accepted new realities, but not all. Some of them quietly defended the right to their own artistic theme and plastic realization, despite subsequent persecutions. They were not accepted into the Union of Artists, removed from exhibitions, accused of "bourgeois" and did not even sell professional materials. However, it is their true and valuable “quiet” art that makes the picture of the artistic life of the 1920s-1940s brighter, deeper and more truthful.
Based on the materials of the official site Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts.
Title picture: Kuprin A.V. Corner of Bakhchisarai. 1934
Photo 4: Falk R.R. Portrait of Rachel L. Baumvol, poetess and writer. 1944-1947
Photo 5: Axelrod MM Girl with a doll. 1939
“Without Borders” is a difficult story about a living creative process in the period of the formation of a totalitarian state. After all, if the 1920s were a time of artistic diversity, the equal existence of various creative associations, then already in the 1930s all domestic and foreign artistic trends were transferred to the category of malicious. A single “grand style” was created — the obligatory and heroic social realism. Many artists have accepted new realities, but not all. Some of them quietly defended the right to their own artistic theme and plastic realization, despite subsequent persecutions. They were not accepted into the Union of Artists, removed from exhibitions, accused of "bourgeois" and did not even sell professional materials. However, it is their true and valuable “quiet” art that makes the picture of the artistic life of the 1920s-1940s brighter, deeper and more truthful.
Based on the materials of the official site Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts.
Title picture: Kuprin A.V. Corner of Bakhchisarai. 1934
Photo 4: Falk R.R. Portrait of Rachel L. Baumvol, poetess and writer. 1944-1947
Photo 5: Axelrod MM Girl with a doll. 1939
