Art competition

The third all-Russian competition for young figurative artists has reached its culmination, with hundreds of painters, sculptors and graphic artists from all the major Russian art schools and colleges competing for the right to be displayed in the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery. The competition jury, made up of leading researchers from the Tretyakov Gallery and the editorial board of “The Tretyakov Gallery” magazine and headed by the vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts Tair Salakhov, selected 47 works for a one-week show that was open to the general public.