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Vologda Picture Gallery
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Vologda holds a place of its own in the history of the North and its artistic culture. Splendid collections of works of art were collected in the churches and the monasteries, and then in the local museums. The Vologda Picture Gallery plays an important role in the cultural life of the city. Set up in 1952 it has about 30.000 exhibits of painting, graphic arts, sculpture and applied art.
The Gallery is situated in the centre of Vologda. Different cultural schools and tendencies are presented in the halls of the Vologda Picture Gallery.
The complex of the gallery’s exhibition halls includes the Shalamov Memorial House, the Memorial Studio of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Panteleev, the Museum and Creative Centre of the People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Korbakov.
The earliest realist works began to appear in the 18th century, as a reaction against the excesses of romantism and neoclassicism. But the great realist era was the mid-19th century, as artists became disillusioned with the salon system and the influence of academies. Many paintings belonging to the brush of the Russian talented and original artists of the late nineteenth century can be found in the Vologda Picture Gallery.
Official, full-dress portraits hold a special place in the eighteenth-century Russian art. Portrait painting merits special attention in the exposition of the Vologda Picture Gallery.
In the 1920s the works of the famous landscape painters and marine painters – Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan and some West European artists were delivered to the Vologda Picture Gallery from the State Museum Funds.
The works of the renowned landscape painters of the second half of the nineteenth century - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Alexei Savrasov, Isaac Levitan and Vasily Polenov - are also exhibited in the Vologda Picture Gallery.
The works of Vasily Vereshchagin and Ilya Repin were presented by the State Russian Museum, and the landscapes of Vasily Polenov and Ivan Bogdanov - by the State Tretyakov Gallery.
One of the halls of Shalamov's house is devoted to West European art. It includes works of art, graphic arts, sculptures and exhibits of applied art presenting different European schools of painting. It is interesting that most exhibits are connected with the Vologda Region. Early in the 20th century the works of the Dutch and Flemish painting, French and German pieces of furniture were delivered to Vologda from the mansions and estates located throughout the region.
West European graphics collection in the Vologda Picture Gallery is not large in its volume but includes works of art of famous European masters of engraving who worked in the 17th - 19th centuries in Italy, France, Germany and England. The main part of the collection is comprised of graphic works of artists who with their individuality and talent have contributed to the greatest achievements of the European graphic art - Sacci, Volpato, Morgen, Piranesi, Turner and others. Most engravings were presented to the gallery by Russian collectors.
Exposition of modern art of the 20th century is the biggest in the gallery.
The Soviet painting endured the controversial ambiguity of the culture of the 1930s which happened to combine cheerful optimism and suspicious alertness. Many works done at that time testified to the strong craving to trespass against the rigid boundaries set by the time and to find intricate compromises which would offer artists a glimpse of hope to preserve their individuality. Artists tried to preserve under the hard ideological yoke both the plastic culture and its spiritual core. The Vologda Picture Gallery keeps the collection of such experienced Soviet painters as N. Tyrsa, A.Labas, R.Barto and other renowned artists. Unique and remarkable are works of art and graphics by Robert Falk. Falk's constant desire to get to the essence of things makes his art profoundly philosophic.
Most works of the Soviet period were presented to the collection by the artists' relatives. The works of Nikolai Tyrsa who was taken out of blockade Leningrad in 1942 and buried in Vologda were given to the gallery by his daughters. N. Tyrsa was the inspirer of the experimental quest. His experiments allowed to employ techniques that bore external resemblance of watercolors; he thus contributed to the flourishing of pictorial drawing on the lithographic stone on which artists worked utilizing a whole arsenal of effects including brush, filling of ink, and splashing to produce lightsome and colorful surface.
Collaboration with the painters from Moscow, St.Petersburg and other Russian cities contributed greatly to the collection. For many Russian artists the North has become a source of inspiration. The Vologda Picture Gallery values the works of art devoted to the culture of our region.
Vologda landscape painters in the late 20th century represent its romantic line. An emotionally charged interpretation of nature, generalized forms, delicate colours, a classical composition, and a search for the pictorial are all characteristic features of their art. The landscapes of the Vologda painters are permeated with lyricism, they cherish the history of the region and remind us of the bygone times.
The memorial studio of Alexander Panteleev (1932-1990), Honoured Artist of Russia is affiliated with the Vologda Picture Gallery. A brick structure designed in the eclectic style in late 19th century has become the first museum to perpetuate the memory of the notable painter, our contemporary. Alexander Panteleev worked in this studio since 1981 creating canvases devoted to the Russian North and its culture. The artist travelled to Italy and Cuba searching for subjects and themes for his paintings. He was one of the first artists who represented ecological line.
The studio of Alexander Panteleev houses a collection of books and articles of applied art brought by the artist from his trips. Here one could see gifts presented to the artist by his friends and admirers. The memorial museum has become home to expositions of other Vologda - born painters,
The Vologda Picture Gallery hosted large-scale exhibitions, regional, interregional, all-Russian and international projects - "Russian North" (2003), "Potters of Russia" (2000, 2003, 2006.), "The Image of the Motherland" (2006), "Contemporary Folk Art of Russia. Traditions and Modernity" (2008), XXXVI World Congress of Exlibris (2016), All-Russian Congress of Exlibris (2004, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), an exhibition of Gianmaria Potenza’s graphic works (Venice, Italy, 2019), "Masterpieces of watercolors and graphics by Western European artists of XV - XX centuries" from the collection of A.Egorov (2021), an exhibition "Masterpieces of Gustave Doré" (2021) and others.
Address: 10, Kremlin Square, 160000, Vologda, Russia
Tel.: 8 (8172) 72-12-28
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