If you haven’t already been to the exhibition “Impressionism in the Avant-Garde” in the Museum of Russian Impressionism, this weekend (until Tuesday) is your last chance to see it before it closes.
And even if you have seen it, consider visiting it again — as an artistic prologue, as it were, to the museum’s next exhibition: a major show of works by David Burliuk — called the “father of futurism” — that opens in October.
The current exhibition displays (демонстрирует) over 60 works from 14 museums and five private (личные) collections, and its list of artists reads like the Who’s Who of the Russian avant-garde: Vladimir Tatlin, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, David Burliuk, Kazimir Malevich, Robert Falk and many others.
Their works, though, are not the geometrical and abstract canvases from the peak of the Russian avant-garde, but “uncharacteristic” portraits and landscapes done early in their artistic careers or, in some cases, later in life. It turns out that these warm, impressionistic works only seem “uncharacteristic” — they were an integral (неотъемлемая) part of these artists’ creative development.
15 Leningradsky Prospekt, Bldg. 11. Metro Belorusskaya. Rusimp.su. The museum is open every day, and the show is on through Tuesday
