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- Exhibition “Truth and Beauty, Russian
Realistic painting from the collection of the Latvian
National Museum of Art” gives possibility to represent
80 paintings which depicted the typical trends of
Realist art in Russia and were produced by 70 artists.
Such kind of selection had been made because of the fact
that The Latvian National Museum of Art holds the most
extensive collection of Russian art in the Baltic States
focusing primarely on a diverse look at the development
of Realism between 1860 and the late 1950s.
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- The paintings of artists such as Ivan
Aivazovsky, Ivan Shishkin, Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov
and Alexey Savrasov are considered to be among the
highlights of Russian national art. These were artists
who held Russia’s environment in high regard, presenting
it with true respect, precision, piety and love. The
paintings show Russia in all of the seasons of the year,
complete with a diversity of mood and colour. They show
the people of Russia at work and play in rural areas and
cities. They present important historical events. All of
the artists wanted to show the problems and difficulties
of ordinary people as realistically as possible. They
focused particularly on everyday life and work,
presenting convincing psychological depictions of images
in genre paintings, portraits, and major historical
works.
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- The period between 1890 and 1920 was
one in which young artists intensively sought out new
resources for expresion. Artists such as Konstantin
Korovin, Boris Kustodiyev, Ilya Mashkov, Philip Malyavin
and Apollinary Vasnetsov, among others, had a realistic
view of the world, but they enriched it with stylistic
trends such as Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism,
Primitivism and others.
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- This exhibition also features works
produced by Alexandr Deineka, Pyotr Kotov and Viktor
Ivanov between the 1930s and 1950s. These are
outstanding examples of Socialist Realism. Thus the
exhibition makes it possible to trace the metamorphoses
of Realist painting from critical judgments about life
in the latter half of the 19th century to the idealistic
interpretation of public life in the first half of the
20th century.
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- The exhibition was shown to much
acclaim in Italy in late 2007 and early 2008. It was on
display at the Palazzo Loffredo gallery in Potenza, and
it atracted more than 20,000 visitors. This was the
first exhibition of its kind which the Latvian National
Museum of Art staged beyond Latvia’s borders. Now the
organisers of the exhibition wish to introduce it to the
Latvian audience as well.
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- Exhibition curators Irena Buţinska,
Ksenija Rudzîte in collaboration with Laura Gavioli (Italy)
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