Head against the wall. Painting and graphics B. A. Golopolosova 1920-1930-ies

The New Tretyakov Gallery holds the first personal museum exhibition of the artist Boris Alexandrovich Golopolosov (1900-1983) "Head against the wall".

The exhibition will exhibit works created between 1923 and 1937 and relating to the earliest, most vivid period of the artist's work. In addition to works from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, paintings and graphic sheets from the museums of Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Moscow private collections, including work, preserved in the family of the artist.
The exhibition will include about 40 paintings and more than 80 graphic works - original drawings in watercolor and gouache.
In addition to the author's works, unique archival documents stored in the artist's family will be published and presented for the first time, which will help to better understand the controversial situation in the Soviet art of the 1920s and 30s.

Boris Golopolosov’s painting style does not find analogies in the art of the 1920s. The artist is distinguished by brightness, expressiveness, tragic color expression: recognizable contrasting combinations with almost absent green.

In the late 1930s, the author’s work increasingly lost its brightness and dynamics, acquiring the features of surrealism and expressing fear and hopelessness (“The Man Beating against the Wall”, “At a Dead End”).
These and other works you can see on the artist's page in Arthive.