This is the first special
exhibition devoted to the history of relief in Russian art of the 18th
- beginning of the 21centuries. The exposition that gives an opportunity to
trace back the history of main genres of relief and to reveal the peculiarities
of its plastic language will bring together its earliest examples - the works
by B-K.Rastrelli,
M.-A.Kollo, F.Shubin, J-D.Rashett. The history of relief of the 19th
century is presented on the example of works by F.Tolstoy, I.Vitaly and G.Zaleman.
Another line of development of relief of the 19th century that is
connected with the realistic trend is presented on example of the genre and
portrait sculptures by M.Antokolsky, J.Serjakov, P.Zabello, A.Opekushin. At the
beginning of the 20th century the relief n Russia got the thematic
and stylistic diversity (works by A.Ober, M.Dillon, A.Golubkina). The section
that is devoted to the relief of the 20th century presents the new
forms of agitation art that had been worked out after the October Revolution
(works by S.Lebedeva and N.Altman), with the unique phenomenon - the art of
students of the Leningrad Institute of the People of North (bas-reliefs by
Bekerov and Namunka) with the examples of decorative plastic of the 20th
century (I.Efimov) and reliefs devoted to the theme of he Great Patriotic War
(works by D.Jakerson of the war time and monumental works by V.Kaplyansky and
F.Malahin). The after-war time is presented by the two-sided reliefs by
L.Lanetz, and by experiments with unusual materials and forms (V.Govorkov,
E.Preis, L.Kazbekov). The special section is devoted to the numismatics as the
specific view of relief and to the avant-garde searches of V.Tatlin, V.Lebedev
and V.Izdebky, and also to the experiments of the artists who in late 20th
century worked in the sphere of collage. |
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