Old
Masters, Impressionists and Moderns
French
Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
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TO READ MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
The following reviews appeared in
Glasstire, Houston
Chronicle, and The
New
York Times
Mr. Peter Marzio,
Director of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Madame Irina Antonova,
Director of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Russia give a tour
of the exhibit to President George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Bush on the opening
night.
President George
H.W. Bush and Madame Irina Antonova view the famous Van Gogh Panting
"The Prisoner"
President George
H.W. Bush and Mrs. Bush tour the exhibit on the opening night in Houston,
TX with FIAE's President Greg Guroff
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PAINTING
REVOLUTION:
Kandinsky,
Malevich, and the Russian Avant-Garde
Painting
Revolution was organized by the Foundation for International Arts and
Education, and was on tour in the U.S
April 2000- July 2001.
Participating
Museums:
Phoenix Art Museum,
Phoenix, Arizona
Chicago Cultural
Center, Chicago, Illinois
Portland Art Museum,
Portland, Oregon
Fredirick R. Weisman
Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bass Museum of
Art, Miami Beach, Florida
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The Foundation for International
Arts and Education was pleased to present Painting Revolution: Kandinsky,
Malevich, and the Russian Avant Garde, a unique exhibition of approximately
85 paintings from twelve provincial Russian museums and the State Russian
Museum in St. Petersburg. This project, presented in conjunction with
the State Russian Museum and ROSIZO of the Russian Ministry of Culture,
appeared in five American cities.
Although the artistic quality of the works is inarguably superb, it
is the story of how these works became a part of the collections of
the provincial museums in the remotest parts of Russia that magnifies
the importance of the exhibition. During the tumultuous period shortly
after the Russian Revolution, national efforts were made to distribute
works of art from the major urban centers to the countryside in an attempt
to bring culture to the Soviet masses. The Bolsheviks created a number
of regional cultural centers and then broke up some of the best modern
art collections of the early twenties to fill their new provincial centers.
Shortly after the paintings arrived in these cultural centers and the
museum directors realized their worth, they were ordered destroyed because
they threatened "communist ideals." However, art lovers don't
destroy art, they just tuck it away and it was only in the late 1980s
that the Russian museums began to discover and acknowledge that these
treasures had been confined to their depositories. One can only imagine
the extraordinary risks taken by ordinary people to preserve their country's
cultural risk in a period of extreme political oppression.
To learn more
about Painting Revolution, please read the review by G. Jurek Polanski
from ArtScope.net
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The Origins of
the Russian Avant-Garde
An exploration of the relationship of
Russian folk art to the Avant-Garde, in collaboration with the State
Russian Museum of St. Petersburg. The exhibition was produced by the
Walters Art Museum, with FIAE as advisers (February 14 - May 25 in the
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD)
