Lydia Iovleva

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Lydia Iovleva
On Levitan's Landscapes and the Levitan Exhibition

Special issue. ISAAC LEVITAN

"Levitan's landscape" is a term firmly ingrained both in art scholarship and in the minds of many art lovers. A "Levitan landscape" is different from an "Ivan Shishkin landscape" or even landscapes by Alexei Savrasov or Vasily Polenov, although it is very close to the last ones. Usually, a "Levitan landscape" is a simple image of an almost always deserted natural environment - a creek, a narrow pathway, groves rolling on into the depth of the picture in a somewhat diagonal direction, or copses. It is set in different seasons, except (largely) winter - Levitan's pieces almost never feature images of snowy winter - and usually depicts a transitional season or summer; there are blue horizons and a high limitless sky with a distinct life of its own, beyond the mental grasp of human beings.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

LYDIA IOVLEVA
Mikhail Nesterov in Search of His Russia

№1 2013 (38)

A MAJOR EXHIBITION "MIKHAIL NESTEROV IN SEARCH OF HIS RUSSIA" OPENED ON APRIL 23 2013 AT THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY. LIKE TWO PREVIOUS LARGE EXHIBITIONS, ONE HIGHLIGHTING THE WORK OF ISAAC LEVITAN (2011), ANOTHER, THAT OF KONSTANTIN KOROVIN (2011-2012), THE NESTEROV SHOW IS DEDICATED TO THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARTIST'S BIRTH. THE CONCURRENCE OF SUCH ANNIVERSARIES CAUSES ONE TO MARVEL AT THE SHEER NUMBER OF EXTREMELY GIFTED PEOPLE BORN IN RUSSIA BETWEEN 1860 AND 1865: ISAAC LEVITAN (1860), KONSTANTIN KOROVIN (1861), MIKHAIL NESTEROV (1862), ALEXANDER GOLOVIN (1863) AND, AT THE TAIL END OF THIS "ALIGNMENT OF LUMINARIES", VALENTIN SEROV (1865) (SHOWS FOR THE LAST TWO ARTISTS ARE PLANNED FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS).

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Lydia Iovleva
Konstantin Korovin: His Paintings and Theatre Work
at the Tretyakov Gallery

№1 2012 (34)

November 23 (December 5, in the "New Style") 2011 was the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Russian painter of the late 19th-early 20th centuries Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin (1861-1939). In anticipation of this momentous anniversary, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg agreed to team up for a project in which each party organised a Korovin exhibition so that the two shows would share essential elements but vary in details: the two museums, the main keepers of the great artist's legacy, exchange his best works but each presents its own version of the exhibition and prepares its own publications to accompany it.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Lydia Iovleva
On Levitan’s Landscapes and the Levitan Exhibition

№3 2010 (28)

“Levitan's landscape” is a term firmly ingrained both in art scholarship and in the minds of many art lovers. A “Levitan landscape” is different from an “Ivan Shishkin landscape” or even landscapes by Alexei Savrasov or Vasily Polenov, although it is very close to the last ones. Usually, a “Levitan landscape” is a simple image of an almost always deserted natural environment – a creek, a narrow pathway, groves rolling on into the depth of the picture in a somewhat diagonal direction, or copses. It is set in different seasons, except (largely) winter – Levitan's pieces almost never feature images of snowy winter – and usually depicts a transitional season or summer; there are blue horizons and a high limitless sky with a distinct life of its own, beyond the mental grasp of human beings.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Lidia Iovleva
"The Incomparable Lado!” Lado Gudiashvili: The Parisian Period

№4 2009 (25)

On November 17 2009, large crowds greeted the opening of the Lado Gudiashvili exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Lavrushinsky Pereulok. Gudiashvili (1896-1980) was an outstanding 20th century Georgian artist; the current exhibition focuses on a short period of his creative life, the five years he spent in Paris from 1920 to 1925. These were Gudiashvili's formative artistic years, in which he established the creative identity he would retain for the rest of his life; the style he developed in Paris made his art especially original and attractive. Anyone who came to Tbilisi during the post-war years wanted to visit the enigmatic master's studio – and visitors always left enthralled by the warmth of this highly cultured, silver-haired artist who seemed to open his creative secrets exclusively for them.

ART COLLECTORS AND PATRONS

Lydia Iovleva
Ilya Ostroukhov – Moscow artist and collector

#2 2006 (11)

Ilya Semenovich Ostroukhov was a leading collector in the Moscow art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His collection, which later became the Icons and Paintings Museum, located in Ostroukhov's home on Trubnikovsky Pereulok near the Arbat, was referred to in a 1914 city-guide as one of Moscow's foremost attractions, and was frequented by art lovers, which gave considerable trouble, as well as pleasure, to its owner. Ostroukhov was by that time a well-known landscape artist, first actively involved in the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) movement, who later rebelled against and broke with that group, creating in 1903 together with fellow malcontents who had split from the movement the Union of Russian Artists, concentrated primarily on the Moscow tradition of painting.

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