10 unknown: love and men of the sixties at the Thaw exhibition

On Mondays the majority of the Moscow museums does not work with div, but it does not mean that at culture output: to touch to fine it is possible in any day of week. m24.ru edition 24-hour city information TV channel "Moskva 24" started the heading "10 unknown" in which tells about the most interesting works of art which can be seen in the capital, since Tuesday or even to go to them towards right now.

Pimenov Youri. Run through ulitsu

16 February in the Tretyakov gallery the Thaw exhibition, devoted to the Soviet art, a life and hopes of an era of the 1960th opened. In this unprecedented culturological project more than 500 exhibits from 23 museums and 11 private collections are collected.

Yury Pimenov. Wedding on tomorrow's ulitse

Each time, beginning the text or conversation on this exhibition, I wonder: whether I understand art of men of the sixties? May we condemn today artists of "Thaw" for frank pathetics of language, for admiration of the Soviet reality of an era? In fact, we could treat this art detached. As, say, to art of XVI or XIX century – after all passed 50 years. Could study its formalities. For example, to look who at whom studied and that in the pictures represented. On the other hand, we cannot do so just because passed only 50 years. Today's generation – generation of successors of that era, and we just should comprehend its importance, achievements, miscalculations and failures.

Pimenov Youri. The area tomorrow's dnya

Pimenov Youri was one of the artists who have represented 1960th as an era of hopes one second prior to bright future. Buildings, weddings, young scientists, cars – all this rushes towards to tomorrow. His pictures remind trailers that is not casual: Pimenov Youri worked both as the schedule illustrator, and as the theatrical decorator. His talent was recognized in Stalin times, the socialist realism of such sense was simple and clear to the leader. But in the 60th Pimenov Youri became one of art directors of the USSR. For it the Soviet reality, how many reality vital in all the manifestations was important not so much.

Popkov Victor. Builders Bratsk

"Builders of Brotherly hydroelectric power station" – one of the main works so-called "severe style" boundary of the 1950th – the 1960th years. This direction in painting preceded "Thaw" or even was its part.

Popkov Victor. Dvoye

"Severe style" differed from a socialist realism more rough forms and plots. If the first spoke about labor feats, the second – about happy post-war life in the peace soitsalistichesky country. Workers, builders, peasants, and subjects – hard physical work and "severity" of life became heroes of severe style often. Such lyrical motives and heroes in love were an exception.

Salakhov Tair. At Kaspiya

Salakhov Tair – one more representative of "severe realism". But along with such pictures ("At the Caspian Sea") at an exhibition its work with a bouquet of red flowers is presented, for example. According to the curator Svetlyakov Kirill, similar work in Soviet period was considered as the best gift:" on the one hand – flowers, and with another – a picture".

Salakhov Tair. At Kaspiya

Roginsky Mikhail. Floor. Metlakhskaya plitka

Along with the socialist realism singing of the Soviet daily occurrence, there was a direction sotsarta, over this reality the sneering. The artist Roginsky Mikhail was one of bright representatives of this direction. It represented not idyllic scenes of the Soviet life and not its severe life, and its avaricious reality – a tile, a home decoration, "poetry" of the Soviet kitchens.

Bulatov Eric. Razrez

Bulatov Eric became one of the few Soviet artists (along with Kabakov Ilya), whose works know today and very much appreciate around the world. And though Bulatov Eric, as well as Roginsky Mikhail, belonged to number of sotsartist, at the Ottpel exhibition it is possible to see its work absolutely other, abstract, sense.

Yankilevsky Vladimir. Kompozitsiya

One more example of the Soviet abstractionism of "the second wave". After vanguard the 1920th line of abstract art almost for 40 years interrupted. And in the 1960th years escaped on a surface with a new force. Even the name of work Yankilevsky Vladimir connects its "Composition" with painting Kandinsky Vasilii.

Vechtomov Nicholas. Red and chernoye

Vechtomov Nicholas was one more talented abstract artist of the time. About its painting said that its special advantage in "shrill color". In the Soviet art it meant that began to interest artists not only the contents, but also a form. And without binding to a subject basis.

Gavrilov Vladimir. Cafe. Autumn den

"Cafe. Autumn day" – a picture which connects the Soviet art with traditions of the French impressionism, and also from cafe on Gauguin and Renoir's cloths, only in interiors of the Soviet reality.

Kinyakina Catherina