We are starting our project

We are launching the project "Crimea as a historical source of inspiration for Russian artists."

The beauty of the landscapes, the sea, the mountains, and the lush palette of forests have always attracted people of art to Crimea.
The peninsula became a source of inspiration for them, attracting them with its beauty and magnificent natural landscapes.
Since the end of the XVIII century, with the conquest of Crimea by the Russian Empire, artists have come here in search of natural and ethnographic exoticism and beauty.
No matter what genre the master wrote, no matter what visual techniques he used, the unique atmosphere of the peninsula, its rare views and unique landscape are felt in each work.
Each of the painters working in Crimea finds something personal in it, creating paintings that become a kind of connecting link connecting the viewer with the Crimean landscape through time and space. Even if the viewer has never been to the peninsula, these works are able to awaken strong feelings and experiences, to reveal the innate love of man for nature.
The culture and art of Crimea developed under the influence of the cultural traditions of many peoples who inhabited this territory at different times, therefore, all the best human achievements in architecture and creativity were concentrated on the Crimean land.
Almost all graduates of the Imperial Academy of Arts and other educational Russian art institutions visited Crimea and left in their legacy works dedicated to this place: I. Aivazovsky, I. Shishkin, I. Levitan, A. Kuindzhi, M. Voloshin,
P. Konchalovsky, who laid the foundations of traditional Crimean painting, which was further developed by such Soviet artists as F. Zakharov, V. Bernadsky, P. Stolyarenko, V. Tsvetkova, and others. The section of plein-air painting that was mastered by Russian artists at the beginning of the 20th century has remained an unshakable stronghold of plein-air painting for Crimean artists today.

But Crimean painting is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that has absorbed many trends and trends of the modern school of painting. The impressionistic trend in Crimean painting coexists with trends and trends based on the tradition of classical painting or trends that develop avant-garde trends in modern painting in Crimea. And the purpose of this project is to show a wide audience the diversity of the Crimean painting school at the Moscow exhibition site, which brought together artists of the Crimean school of painting of different generations, trends and trends, whose masters somehow draw inspiration from the Crimean land, in its richness and uniqueness, in the diversity of the landscape and landscape motifs.