Art Of The Day Weekly
#460 - from 16 February 2017 to 22 February 2017
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, Bolshevik, 1920. Oil on canvas. 101 x 140.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery Photo © State Tretyakov Gallery
From Moscow with love
LONDON - Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and Zinoviev, of course. As well as Chagall, Malevich and Kustodiev. This fall the one hundred years of the Russian Revolution, a real artistic melting pot, will be celebrated. From Rodchenko’s photographs to Tatlin’s constructions, including the tireless activity of the poster artists, this exhibition offers us a wide choice. Among the many surprises, there is Lenin’s coffin, painted by Petrov-Vodkin in 1924, a work that was almost disturbing at the time, as Lenin was thought to be eternal, and today it would be considered out of date – as the Orthodox religion once again fills in the needs of faith-. Consequently the Tretyakov gallery rarely shows it.
• Revolution. Russian Art 1917-1932 at the Royal Academy of Arts, from 11 February to 17 April 2017.