Exhibition visit July, Moscow
“Impressionism in the Avant-Garde”
till 19st of September in the Museum of Russian Impressionism.
“Today there is no argument regarding the existence of English, German, Spanish, Scandinavian, or American Impressionism. Russian Impressionism remains the least well studied. ... Regardless of the fact, in the history of Russian art, one is unlikely to find an artist who remained true to Impressionism their whole life, the vast majority of Russian artist at the turn of the twentieth century were, in one way or another, attracted to this style. ...Without Impressionism, Russian contemporary painting would never have appeared.” quotation from the annotation to the exhibition.
Though I didn’t have enough time in Moscow, in this visit priority was contemporary exhibitions. LOL. This was not the most modern choice but I got a pure satisfaction out of colour, fresh and light environment of presented works. I clearly could admit the unique approach of Russian masters in impressionism. The way of mixing oil I believe is different from the European and American school of Art. Due to our climate most of the time weather doesn’t have a variety of colour so we trained from the early age to define all the hundred hues of grey). That is why artists from our cold country prefer to represent a tonal range with limited colours. It also can be a sort of melancholy of the Russian soul.
There was something, I’d never seen before, tactile panels for the visually impaired (which is very nice to our handicapped-unfriendly country) and fragrances. So I could touch the volume of the interior and could smell the forest or at least something which smells like a forest. I agree that in terms of additional opportunities this makes all things more vivid and interactive but how they would represent monochromes of Yves Klein with which volume-panels and with what smell? Is it again a nice story under the mask of kitsch? Is it a subject of plagiarism when someone integrating into the pictorial complete idea of the artwork and use it in a different way because Stanislav Zhukovsky for sure hasn’t had an idea about transferring smell because he was focused on impressionistic values of light and colour.
Otherwise, to have a chance to smell something like an autumn forest would be invaluable. The introduced smell reminded me rather a popular perfume from a Duty-Free.
Bibliography and references
· Ilya Mashkov (1922) After the Storm. Oil on canvas. Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow. 24 July 2018.
· Aleksei Morgunov (1913) Flowery Field. Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow. 24 July 2018.
· Mikhail Larionov (1906) Night. Tiraspol. Oil on canvas. Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow. 24 July 2018.
· Stanislav Zhukovsky (1910-1920) Interior of a Room. Oil on canvas. Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow. 24 July 2018.
· Olga Rozanova (Circa 1910) Flowers in the window. Oil on canvas. Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow. 24 July 2018.
· Stanislav Zhukovsky (1911) Autumn Forest. Oil on canvas. Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow. 24 July 2018.
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