Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI) in Moscow

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The Institute of Russian Realist Art (abbreviation - IRRI) is a museum complex opened since December 2011. The IRRI collection is based on paintings by Russian and Soviet masters of the 20th and 21st centuries - A. A. Plastova, S. V. Gerasimova, Yu. I. Pimenova, A. A. Deineki, V. E. Popkova, G. M. Korzheva, G. N. Gorelova, N. I. Andronova, N. F. Novikov, brothers Sergei and Alexei Tkachev, Viktor Ivanov, who cover various historical stages in the development of Russian society.

General description of the museum

The basis of the first exhibition and the museum fund as a whole is a private collection owned by Alexei Ananiev, a businessman, and containing many paintings painted in the realistic tradition. Its history began about 10 years ago. Today Ananiev's collectionincludes several thousand works. Presented in the first exhibition about 500 of them.

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art is located opposite the Novospassky Monastery, in Zamoskvorechye, in one of the old buildings of the cotton-printing factory. After the restoration and redevelopment of the walls of this building, built around the end of the 19th century, the museum premises, covering an area of 4500 m², were equipped with advanced engineering communications, as well as special equipment, which is designed to maintain a special mode of storage of various works of art in the museum. Today, the technical equipment of IRRI meets all international standards.

Master classes and lectures

The exposition of works from the IRRI collection has been available since December 2011 to a wide range of domestic and foreign visitors interested in the realistic school and its cultural tradition in Russia. Master classes and lectures for the whole family are held here every first Saturday of the month. There are group and individual excursion programs in English and Russian. Students of art universities, as well as students of various art lyceums, have the opportunity to visit the museum for free on certain days (for more information about the opening hours of this museum and exhibition complex, see the very bottom of the article).

Museum address and directions

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art is located near the metro station"Paveletskaya". From here you can take buses 106, 13, 632 or 158, or take the 13th minibus from Paveletsky railway station to the stop called "First Printing Factory", or take trams 38, 35 to the stop "Novospassky Most" and enter from side of Derbenevskaya street to "Novospassky yard", business center. From metro station "Proletarskaya" you can take trams 38 or 35 to the stop "Novospassky bridge". That is, there are several options for how to get into the Institute of Russian Realistic Art.

The address where IRRI is located is Derbenevskaya embankment, building 7, building 31.

This museum occupies all three floors of the building. Finding it is quite simple - there is a brick tower nearby, which is a boiler room pipe, the building of which is occupied by the Institute of Russian Realistic Art. When you walk into the museum among the red brick buildings of this former factory, you get the impression that you are somewhere in England at the end of the 19th century.

The halls of the museum today are filled with many paintings by famous artists: Sergei Gerasimov, Arkady Plastov, Alexander Deinek, Viktor Popkov, Vladimir Stozharov and others. In many works, both the national character and the Russian spirit are felt.

Museum highlights

The interior and the building itself, from the cloakroom and foyer to the exhibition halls, indicate that the technical equipment of this museum is indeed at the highest level, IRRI(Institute of Russian Realist Art) is a solid gallery of modern type.

And in terms of the quality and quantity of the collection of paintings by Russian, Soviet artists, it is second only to the Tretyakov Gallery. Alexei Ananiev, its organizer, caught the spirit of the times, not yet very noticeable, light, and made a bet, first of all, on realistic Russian art. Avant-gardism in today's forms, in its pseudo-innovation and aesthetic adventurism, often leads to a dead end. There was, of course, a grain of novelty in this art, but it did not germinate. And realism gives a lot. Russian art of this trend tells about life, depicts its time: types of people, their faces, working moments, life, landscape, houses, etc. And it also requires the ability to draw, professional skill.

Best work

The Institute of Russian Realist Art is a museum where you will see, for example, a very catchy and masterfully executed portrait by Alexander Osmerkin called "Ladies in a Black Beret" or Alexander Samokhvalov's "Portrait of a Pilot". The museum and exhibition complex provides an opportunity to look at the paintings of Vladimir Stozharov, the most famous of which are: "Unzha", "Muftyug. High Water", "Autumn. Cows graze". For example, Arkady Plastov's work "Pryasla" is just a fence, blue, snow … But for some reason, there is a desire to feel the fullness and warmth of an unpretentious collective farm life, to go behind these spinners. creationsViktora Popkova: "Under the Lilac", "Rest", "Evening Shadows" will also leave no one indifferent.

Soviet artists

In Soviet times, various works written by famous masters were bought by the Ministry of Culture, as well as museums. You will not find in the exposition, for example, such a work of pre-revolutionary times as the painting "Seeing Off" by Helium Korzhev, and the painting by Grabar "Chrysanthemums" was acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery. But even less well-known paintings by masters of such a high level are of professional, museum and historical interest. The exposition of works is represented by such authors of the Soviet school of painting as Gritsai, Zhilinsky, Salakhov, Ossovsky, Stozharov, Ivanov, Kugach, Nemensky, Sokolov-Skalya, Osmerkin, Romadin, Chuikov and many others. Their works demonstrate the high professional level that the painting of the Soviet period had.

Ideological work

Art is part of the ideology. The country lived a heroic, complex life. This is reflected in the IRRI exposition in due measure and rightfully. Gorelov's paintings "Flowers to Stalin" and "Farewell to Gorky" convey the feeling of life of the USSR at that time. This topic is developed by the work of Denisovsky "Portrait of Marshal Budyonny", Brodsky - "Spring Landscape" and "Academic Dacha" and others. This collection is truly huge - we have indicated only some of the paintings.

Small works

Of course, not only the most successfulcreations of famous authors. The signature of the famous artist does not yet speak of either the value or the artistic value of the work. Fortunately, there are few such not entirely successful creations in the IRRI exposition. Even small paintings, almost sketches, confirm the undoubted skill of the authors. For example, these are the works of the artist Reshetnikov, as well as the portrait "Collective Farmer" by Tsiplakov and the "Novospassky Monastery" by Dementyev. The last picture is only 30 x 25 cm in size. Here we also note Kupriyanov Mikhail Vasilievich - his paintings "Moscow. Winter 1946" and "Moscow. 1947", a picturesque and unusually fresh "Portrait of an Artist", made by Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov.

"The Unfinished Conversation" is a rare example of a significant experience conveyed in a still life. This work is now in the Tretyakov Gallery. The Institute of Russian Realistic Art in Moscow also gives us the opportunity to recall the work of this master of painting.

Artists of our time

Many artists of our time are beautifully represented. A very good picture from all points of view - "Before work. Men" Korkod Vladimir Nikolaevich. Fine examples of the landscape are the works of Izotov Mikhail Nikolaevich "On the banks of the Klyazma", "Winter Day in Vladimir", "Vladimir. View of the Assumption Cathedral". Not catchy, but very poignant picture - "Victory Day" by Anton Vyacheslavovich Stekolshchikov.

Works by Vadim Vladimirovich Dementiev "Vorobevsky forest","October. Andreevka", "Village" are an example of painting by artists of the Moscow school. We also note the picture of Vladimir Viktorovich Yanaka "Widow", Yegor Nikolaevich Zaitsev "Christmas Tree". There are many talented artists in our country, about whom very little is known to the general public. These authors have great work. Great joy - when they finally reach the audience. The ingenious works of the artist Pirosmani are known to a wide range. But even in Russian villages, in these rickety huts, we can see simple, painted on plywood, but very touching masterpieces, which are often not inferior to them. Unfortunately, it is not known about them, but meanwhile they contain the spiritual we alth of the Russian peasant. Similarly, a number of little-known realist artists have works that not many have seen. In IRRI you will find some of them. The general impression of this exposition is a feeling of hard and great work done, very necessary and useful.

Opening hours and ticket prices

Museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11 am to 8 pm. On Thursday, the schedule is slightly shifted - from 12 to 21. Half an hour before the museum closes, the box office closes. Monday is a day off.

Tickets cost 150 rubles for adults, 50 rubles for schoolchildren and students. Free admission - last Saturday and first Tuesday of every month.