For the first time
the exhibition fully presents the unique phenomenon of art that is the creative oeuvre of students of the Institute of People
of the Russian North. It was founded in Leningrad
in 1930 on the base of the North Institute of Leningrad State University. The
exposition includes painting, sculpture, graphic and applied art works and photographs
of the 1920-1930s as well as the articles of Far North folk art from the
collections of the State Russian Museum,
Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic and Russian Ethnographic
Museum.
The art works by
the representatives of the small native nations of the Far North, Siberia and
the Far East are the outstanding manifestation
of the phenomenon of culture, based on the system of art mentality different
from the European ones. The aesthetics of the works by the artists from the
North appeals to the many-aged traditions of their national culture, but these
works are also in keeping with the philosophy of art of K. Petrov-Vodkin, M.
Matushin, P. Filonov and the other masters of the Leningrad Avant-Garde of the 1920
- beginning of the 1930s. Nowadays interrelationship of archaic, traditional
and contemporary treatments in art of students of the Institute of People
of the Russian North attracts an intent attention of specialists that is the evidence
of the actuality and significance of this phenomenon.
The exhibition is organized
with the support of OJSC
Severstal. 
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