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Impressionism in Russia: The Dawn of the Avant-garde
Exhibition August 28, 2021 − January 9, 2022
The Barberini Museum is holding an exhibition "Impressionism in Russia: The Dawn of the Avant-garde".
The exhibition features more than 80 works which demonstrate the magnitude of the international visual language of artists in the 1900s and the role of Russian artists - from Ilya Repin to Kazimir Malevich - in the context of Western European contemporary art.
As a major artistic centre of European art, Paris attracted artists from the art academies of Moscow and St. Petersburg from the 1860s onwards.
By discovering French Impressionism, which portrayed contemporary life, Russian artists gradually departed from the strict academic tradition that had dominated Realist art. Interaction with French artists inspired artists such as Ilya Repin, Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov to create works that not only created an impression of the present moment, but also, to some extent, spoke out against the modern way of life. Electric lights, shop windows, as well as the architecture of the modern boulevards of Paris made an impression on the Russian masters, which in turn was used with a sense of great creative freedom.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Museo Barberini.
The exhibition features more than 80 works which demonstrate the magnitude of the international visual language of artists in the 1900s and the role of Russian artists - from Ilya Repin to Kazimir Malevich - in the context of Western European contemporary art.
As a major artistic centre of European art, Paris attracted artists from the art academies of Moscow and St. Petersburg from the 1860s onwards.
By discovering French Impressionism, which portrayed contemporary life, Russian artists gradually departed from the strict academic tradition that had dominated Realist art. Interaction with French artists inspired artists such as Ilya Repin, Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov to create works that not only created an impression of the present moment, but also, to some extent, spoke out against the modern way of life. Electric lights, shop windows, as well as the architecture of the modern boulevards of Paris made an impression on the Russian masters, which in turn was used with a sense of great creative freedom.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Museo Barberini.
Galleries at the exhibition
