Nude. Twentieth century Exhibition

The exhibition runs until March 8, 2010. Moscow gallery “House Nashokin”.

In Moscow gallery “House Nashokin” an exhibition of works by artists of the twentieth century, made in the genre of the nude. On display are paintings and sculptures of the best masters of the past century: Pyotr Konchalovsky , Zinaida Serebrya, Valentin Serov , Alexander Archipenko , Aristarchus Lentulova , Ilya Mashkova , Konstantin Juon , Boris Kustodiev , Nicholas Stipa , Mikhail Sokolov , Michael Matyushina , Alexander Labasa , Mikhail Larionov , Natalia Goncharova , Robert Falk , Alexander Drevin , Hope Udaltsova , Arthur Fonvizin , Alexander Tischler , Anatoly Zverev , Dmitry Krasnopevtsev , Oleg Tselkov , Vadim Sidura , Leonid Purygin , Vasily Sitnikov , Vladimir Veisberg , Boris Sveshnikov , Alexander Gerasimov , Alexander Deineka ,Andrei Vasnetsov , Igor Obrosova , Tatyana Nazarenko , Vladimir Lyubarova, Olga Bulgakova , Dashi Namdakov, Victor Korneev, Elena Surovtseva and many other authors. More than a hundred works. Thus, at this exhibition for the first time you can see paintings of representatives of virtually all directions in the Russian art of XX century made in the genre of nude.

Nude - not just a genre of painting, but also a symbol of world art. Nudity - the phenomenon of natural beauty and unity of man as a creation of nature and the universe. Nude creates a complex range of feelings, personifying the unexplained laws of the universe: the beauty - creative source that creates harmony.

Throughout history, mankind’s greatest artists of all ages have glorified the beauty of the naked body, using for this purpose all kinds of Graphic Arts. Of course, Russia, as part of world culture spawned a galaxy of outstanding artists working in the genre of the nude. Best Russian museums are decorated with works K. Bryullov , A. Ivanov , A. Venetsianov , G. Semiradsky , Makovsky and other masters of the XIX century.
But the greatest interest in this regard is the twentieth century, which became a turning point not only in the history of Russia, but also in her artistic life. All of the major artistic currents of the West (post-impressionism, symbolism, abstraction, cubism, etc.) embodied in the works of Russian masters of the past century, existing in parallel with the official Soviet painting, laying the foundation of modern art school.