The Way to the East exhibition opens in the Tretyakov Gallery
The Tretyakov Gallery's "Way to the East" exhibition opened on April 17. She talks about how Russian artists discovered Central Asia and how their style of writing was transformed by what they saw.
The exhibition begins with Pavel Kuznetsov's painting "Mirage in the Steppe" (1912). This canvas is an overture to the whole project. The slightly simplified figures of people and camels next to the yurts look very small and insignificant against the background of a huge sky with diverging light bands. Visitors to the exhibition can only guess whether the artist really captured a natural phenomenon or whether this painting is a metaphor for the "magical East."
As part of the exhibition, you can also see a number of works by the artist Alexander Volkov, including a canvas called "The Pomegranate Teahouse" (1924). Depicting visitors to the tea house, the painter combined cubism and the traditions of icon painting, turning three men in turbans into almost a Trinity. The "signature" ruby red, the color of a pomegranate, gives special strength to the image.
The exhibition connects different civilizations and peoples. It shows that for all the gap between them, this union can — and has — produced amazing results.
Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article:
It's a delicate matter: The Tretyakov Gallery has embarked on a "Journey to the East"
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