Exhibition of paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky will run until midnight Mail.Ru

Tretyakov gallery will extend the working time in the last days of the exhibition “Ivan Aivazovsky. The 200th anniversary of the birth”. 17, 18, 19 and 20 November halls on Krymsky Val will be open until midnight, and the last session will begin at 22:30-23:00.

admirers of the most famous Russian seascape painter there are still a few days to catch an exhibition and see 120 works of his brush. Sale online-tickets for additional evening sessions will start on 14 November at 12:00.

Ivan Aivazovsky opened for Russian art genre Marina — seascape — and turned it into an important phenomenon in the visual arts of the XIX century. In his lifetime, he participated in more than 120 exhibitions in Russia, Europe and America.

Tretyakov gallery showed the artist new deciding to change the attitude to his heritage and to discover new meanings in his works. The exhibition shows the artist not only sincere feelings, romantic emotions, but deep ideas and symbolic generalizations. Visitors to the Museum can learn Aivazovsky as an interlocutor by correspondence with the Catholicos of all Armenians, the visionary who foresaw the disasters of the next century.

six thousand written Aivazovsky paintings (by artist) for exhibition chose 120. In the Tretyakov gallery kept relatively modest collection from which the exhibition got 33 paintings and nine drawings. Most of the works kept in St. Petersburg: the Russian Museum, the Central Navy the Museum, in suburban palaces (Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Tsarskoe Selo), with the remainder in the regional museums of Russia and other countries.

the Architecture of the exhibition to match the nautical theme, we decided to “tacks”: the viewer follows a zig-zag courses from section to section. The exposition was built on themes and motifs. For example, the section “Sea Symphony” is the basic condition marine Aivazovsky — from calm to hurricane.

here you can Also see after the restoration of the big picture “on the coast of the Caucasus” (1885), which were not previously exhibited.

In the documentary section includes portraits of the artist’s family, photographs and archival materials. And at the entrance viewers are greeted by the video installation by modern artists of the group “Blue soup”, which creates the effect of presence in the waters of the Black sea.