Avant-garde. XX^th century

Art Center "Perinnye Riady" - October 3^rd 2011 - December 11^th 2011

Art Center "Perinnye Riady". St.Petersburg.

An exhibition has opened at the Art Center "Perinnye Riady". The bright, bold artists of the Russian Avant-garde, not recognizing the word "impossible", have toppled the plane of academic aesthetics, standing for their right to "paint the way I see it". The origin of the Avant-garde is Paris, France. Here the impressionists have created; here came to paint, young and poor, Picasso, Dali, Chagall, Kandinsky. The Avant-garde, like a fire, spread across the whole world, echoed in Malevich's "Black Square"; Kandinsky's abstract improvisations; Appel's brightly colored works; Miró's gay surrealism; Brak's collages and still-lifes; Buffet's gray-yellow angles; Pollock's abstract expressionism; Warhol's senseless and sensible soup jars; Magritt's mystical realism.

The Avant-garde artists ave created in different techniques, their ideas have often contradicted each other; so why are their works collected today in a single hall? The answer is simple. Each artist has followed their own path, but they have all become the authors of a priceless historical phenomenon - Avant-garde of the XX^th century.

The exhibition presents 51 works from private collections.

The information on this page is translated from the Art Center's announcement at the Afisha.ru webpage (Russian).

Location and Contact Information:

Art Center on the Nevsky Bouevard

Shopping Mall "Perinnye Riady"

Dumskaya Str.4, St.Petersburg

Tel: +7(812) 449-31-02

http://www.artcentrspb.ru/index.html

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