Люди второго плана, или Маленький человек
В.Архипов. Арбузница | Н. Конышева. Кусково. 2003-2012 | В. Коцарева. Виски для дамы |
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В. Ермолаев.Драгуны 2012 х.м.50х40см | С. Белов. Стакан чая х.м. 64х120 | А. Беширов. Чаплин |
С. Волков. Расшибалка | Д. Ельцева. Гриб-хм-30х40-2008 |
Humble Folk
«Snow Rearguard»: «Humble Folk or Low Rankers» (Paintings, Graphic Works, and Animation) Exhibition Projectarranged by the Artists’ League focuses on everyday life and fate and fortunes of «non-heroes» – people from the crowd – which are explored in paintings by our artists. We are eager to present people that live offstage. Invisible, they may be a part of the crowd or instead stand out as effete. One of the first Russian painters to have used the «humble folk» theme was S.V. Ivanov with his «The Muscovites’ Campaign. The 16th century», (1903). The low rankers theme was also explored by Rene Magritte in his works showing a crowd of people with bowler hats on.Our contemporaries interpret the historical subject of «low rankers» differently. They include artists of the Russian-European18th century (Vitaliy Yermolayev) and current Russian authors (Aleksey Smirnov-Voskresensky). Aider Beshirov is an artist focusing on low rankers from Charlie Chaplin on out to images of castaways who live mainly at subway exits. Sergey Volkov’s characters gather at the subway too, but their children’s games for grown-ups are full of joy and subtle nostalgic irony.Valery Arkhipov presents scenes of provincial life. His grotesque characters make you smile. Shamil Nadrov places his characters into a medieval setting. They include anonymous knights and their dwarf-servants. In her art Natalia Parkhomenkouses portraits of kids of previous times to express an emotional and contradictory theme: evading youth beauty which she tries to make eternal. Dina Yeltseva perceives low rankers as children too. V. Yermolayev elaborates the theme depicting little girls of the 18th century.In his large-scale paintings Aleksandr Matreshin shows his creative and aesthetic preferences to the 19th century. Diverse as life itself, some of them are blue, and others – playful. The well-known Primitivism representative Natta Konysheva exhibits group portraits of her acquaintances. Sergey Belov presents modern workers against an endless winter landscape.Elegant sketch-like compositions by Valeria Kotsareva resemble 20th-century-creations narrating about relationships between men and women of the Prohibition epoch. Like the brilliant 19th-century-painter Pavel Fedotov, Leonid Pozhidayevoffers his versions of solitude and collisions from low rankers’ lives. The well-known animator Stanislaw Sokolov makes his graphic images three-dimensional presenting Hoffmann’sanimated characters which he creates after Mikhail Shemyakin’ssketches.Within this project we place emphasis on «the small person» with his difficult vital peripetias, perceived by it tragicly, and the audience – as the farce.