Exhibitions. Museum. Pushkin in Moscow

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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is considered one of the largest and most important cultural and educational institutions in Moscow and the country. It houses an impressive collection of works of world art from ancient times to the present day.

About the Museum

The Pushkin Museum is located on Volkhonka Street, directly opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, located in the very center of the capital. Today it is a whole museum town. In addition to the Main Building, it includes the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th-20th centuries, the Department of Private Collections, the House of Graphics, the Museion Center for Aesthetic Education, the S. Richter Memorial Apartment on B. Bronnaya, the Art Museum. Tsvetaeva I. V. (founder of the museum) on the street. Chayanov and the former city estate in M. Znamensky lane.

At any time of the year, not only on weekends, but also on weekdays, the Museum is full of visitors. Pushkin on Volkhonka. Exhibitions especially attract visitors. In the days when imported masterpieces from the collections of the best museums are shown hereworld, you need to come to the opening and stand in line.

The permanent exhibition is also of great interest. It consists of an educational collection of plaster copies and casts from works of art of antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance (the originals are kept in the most famous museums in the world), as well as a collection of genuine masterpieces of sculpture, graphics, painting, numismatics, decorative and applied arts. It demonstrates European painting of the 13th-18th centuries, the art of Ancient Egypt, sculptural casts of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. The Egyptian Hall has one of the finest collections of authentic items such as sarcophagi, mummies, jewelry, figurines, masks, and more.

Exhibition activity

Exhibitions Museum. Pushkin Museum has been held almost since its opening, along with such well-known organizers of international events as the British Museum, the Louvre and others. Over the years, priceless creations by Titian ("Venus of Urbino"), Leonardo da Vinci ("La Gioconda"), Antonello de Messina ("Saint Sebastian"), Parmingianino ("Anthea") could be seen here.

To temporary exhibitions Museum. Pushkin invites regularly. They take place at several sites of the complex, namely in the Main Building, in the Department of Private Collections, in the Art Gallery, in the children's center "Museion".

The main activity of the Pushkin Museum is that it hosts diverse, covering themes of all available collections of the exhibition. Museum. Pushkin combines various exhibition genres, including: thematic, collection, publications,interpretation.

Of the most important events held at the museum in different years, the following exhibitions can be noted:

• "Painting, graphics, ceramics by P. Picasso" (1956).
• Treasures of Tutankhamun's Tomb (1973).
• “Moscow-Paris. 1900-1930" (1982).
• Etruscan World (1990, 2004).
• "Andy Warhol" (2001).
• “Chanel. According to the Laws of Art” and “Meeting with Modigliani” (2007).
• “Turner. 1775-1851" and "Alberto Giacometti" (2008).

In order to show many generations of our compatriots the great examples of artistic world art (both classical and avant-garde), as well as to promote the cultural rapprochement of peoples, the Museum holds exhibitions. Pushkin.

Important events in 2014

From June 26 to October 19, the Pushkin Museum hosts the exhibition "Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens …". The museum introduces guests to the world masterpieces of Flemish painters from the collections of major American and European museums. One of the best collections, which contains the works of the above artists and their contemporaries, belongs to the Prince of Liechtenstein. Visitors are presented with 55 works by prominent Flemings of the 17th century, including:

• Works by Rubens (19 paintings), created in different genres and in different years of creativity. These are portraits and works of large formats of mythological and religious subjects. Of particular interest is the famous painting "Marci Rhea Sylvia" and at the same time shown a sketch for it, as well as a tapestry,woven over it. It is impossible not to mention such masterpieces as "The Finding of the Baby Erichthonius" and "Portrait of Clara Serena".
• Ten paintings by Van Dyck - masters of the portrait. Among the presented works, made in different periods in Genoa and Antwerp, one of the best creations of the artist is "Portrait of Maria de Tassis".
• Four works of the early creative period of the Flemish painter Jacques Jordans.
• Paintings by the famous animal painter Frans Snyders, characterized by a dynamic style of writing.
• The creations of the sons of the great Pieter Brueghel Muzhitsky, for centuries, of particular value to collectors around the world. Among them - "Landscape with Tobias and an Angel" (Jan Brueghel the Elder) and "Census in Bethlehem" (Peter Brueghel the Younger).

The exhibition "William Hogarth: Analysis of Beauty" (from August 8 to September 7) is held in connection with the British Year of Culture in Russia. Presented are 68 engravings by the famous British engraver and painter, as well as sheets made by engravers from France based on famous paintings by Hogarth. In addition, there are illustrations for the artist's treatise "Analysis of Beauty", which gave the name of the exposition. The treatise is not scientific, it is a creative manifesto of the master, in which he helps answer the question of what is beautiful and what is ugly in art.

In the halls where the permanent exhibition is located, samples of modern art are successfully disguised next to ancient monuments. "Mimicry" - this is the name of the exhibition of the famous Belgian artist WimDelvoye, who presented more than 20 works in the genre of neo-baroque and pseudo-gothic sculpture. Made using the latest technology from marble, carved steel and other materials, ultra-modern, ironic works amaze with their high-quality workmanship and the ability to play with everyday objects in an unusual way.

First exhibition in the new building of the Department of Private Collections

This year (2014) celebrated its 20th anniversary of the Museum of Private Collections of the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. Exhibitions and permanent exhibitions present to visitors works of domestic and Western European art of the 15th-20th centuries, which came to the museum's fund from donors over the period from the 80th year of the last century to the present day. Here are completely different in structure and direction collections, including more than 7,000 creations of painting, drawing, applied art, art photography, sculpture.

From April 16 to September 15, the Department of Private Collections hosts an original exhibition called "Apartment-Museum". Works of art are presented, as well as household items of famous collectors, artists, architects. The guests will plunge into the atmosphere of the apartment of the collector I. Sanovich, the office of the draftsman Y. Chernikhov, who dreamed of the architecture of the future, the workshop of the Shtelenberg-Alfeevsky family, where more than one generation of artists spent their creative life. Here you can get acquainted with the study of the archive of the graphic artist of the twenties of the last century D. Tarkhov, which was presented by L. Tarkhov, andworks by artists of 1920-1940 exhibited by Moscow collector Roman Babichev.