Exhibition of Baksta in Pushkinsky to what. Bakst gorgeous

30.06.2016 13:00

The "diamond club" decided to devote the next meeting with art and visited the Pushkin Museum at the exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of one of the brightest and original artists of the XX century Lion Baksta.

When a weekday is almost completed, when you are tired and developed from heat and work, go anywhere - akin to the feat, it is difficult to decide on which alone is difficult. But in a good company, for example, with the participants of the Club, - for the cute soul. Especially on Baksta in Pushkinsky, which, how to say, in itself an excellent option for a nice evening.

And now at about seven hours, when something scared on the street near the museum, crossed and rumbled (and where in the center of Moscow it doesn't rummage and does not rumbles?), "Diamond Club" with impeccable Keep Smiling gathered in the cool internal paradise of GMIA To plunge into the magic world of aesthetics of the silver century.

Before the excursion, we were told that I give membership in the "Friends of Pushkinsky". This is a free entrance to the museum without a queue at all exhibitions, lectures and all buildings, including Golitsyn's estate. Plus you can come to Pushkin's an hour before the opening and see everything you want, in silence and rest. It looks like some kind of magic deposit: you put a little money on the map, and then you get very generous interest.

"How much should I make on the card?" - We ask the curator of the Eleonora Tang program. "From 4000 rubles is a youth option. There is a 6000 card, there is more expensive - family and premium. " "Is it a month?" - We specify. "It's a year!" - Smiling Eleanor. The more expensive the map, of course, more interesting. For 25,000 rubles a year, curatorial individual excursions and previews will be waiting for you, the invitations to the veneeries, finishes and on the trips abroad. Recently, the premium composition of the "Friends of Pushkinsky" was in London and Paris, visiting the exhibition there, accompanied by the Museum staff. Turnkey trip costs about three thousand euros. And the Tretyakovka specifically for the "Friends of Pushkin" opened the doors to the exhibition Serov on his day off ... In general, booklets with information about all offers of the museum scattered in one moment.

The exhibition was Grandrochem, such in Russia is held for the first time. She was preparing for two more years, bringing exhibits literally from everywhere: from the center of Pompidou in Paris, Museums of Strasbourg and St. Petersburg, the London Museum of Victoria and Albert and many others. The Tretyakovka, for example, provided the portrait of Zinaida Hippius, a completely precious picture, with which, it seems, never parted.

By the way, the portrait of Hippiius made one of the strongest impressions on our company. Like the early portrait of Miscellaneous Gritsenko, then the bride of Baksta, and the portrait of the philosophical (which is called the portrait of Dorian Gray), and "dinner", which is, in fact, the portrait of the wife of Benoit, strangely flowable and flowing. These are iconic works in which Lero Bastca managed to catch the elusive, indelived by other means spirituality, the magic of beauty.

The famous image Hippius is a portrait of the Decadent Madonna, in which the devilish Eros and charm of the revolution of the Spirit. From the picture is looking to a poison, mocking and insightful clever, stretched out legs in the tight trite. Next to the hypius is completely not accidentally placed by the housing portrait of Andrei White. This woman was terribly annoyed by the poet, and therefore Bakst came up with such a caverzu: to make a portrait of a white "fused" grimaceous passion, he started a conversation about Hippius with the writer.

This evening, in Pushkinsky there was some incredible number of people, literally anchlag, so the "diamond club" brought the headphones with whom to listen to the guide was much more convenient. It was not necessary to stand almost closely, it was possible, following the most interesting story, approach the pictures and costumes.

Ballet, theatrical costumes Baksta are perhaps the most amazing and complex exhibits of the exhibition. Already at least because it is extremely difficult to preserve them. But, fortunately, the legendary costume made for the Great Nizhinsky reached us, which danced the ghost of Roses in the same name in 1912. The one from which the fans climbed the pink petals for memory. Even the places where these petals were broken.

Elena Ischeev: "I just returned from St. Petersburg from the Economic Forum and testify - everything went to cultural events there. For example, I discovered. In addition, my husband and I always complete the PMEF ballet - this time were in Mariyinka at "Giselle". Theater, of course, was full. Today, there is an excitement on Bakx, but the TV channels are silent, and the PR exhibition is only the forces of the Museum staff. And all the same the full halls, people themselves stretch to genuine beauty. I am familiar with ballet art, I am brought up on it, and I can not say that amazed, as if I got acquainted with the masterpieces of Baksta for the first time. Although I was interested to see a genuine suit of Nizhinsky, who in a hundred years heed to microscopic size. But this is a suit in which Nizhinsky danced on stage, it causes real trepidation. And I, of course, pleasantly surprised that so many members of our club - and now it is already a mixture, it is a female and men's story - everyone threw and came. Here is such a true gust, the desire to touch the culture, and makes Russia a great one. It is not propaganda and advertising, our leaders are not called here. Therefore, for me, today's discovery is not so much an exhibition, how much the number of its visitors and their inspired persons. "

Lyudmila Antonova, Lady with the very radiant smile of this evening, also received a lot of impressions from the exhibition: "It was the fantastic time of the most beautiful women and the most inspired men who were able to admire these women. The time when AR-Nouveau ended, Ar-Deco began, and our country was represented by the artists as Bakst. Therefore, for Russia a great gift that the organizers have collected almost everything that remains from his brilliant heritage. "

Here it is necessary to add that men of that time not only admired women, they decorated them. Bakst, for example, removed the bundle from the ballerina, replacing them on the tunics, scarves and loose thin shirts in which the female body is embodied erotica and beauty. The aesthetics of Dyagilevsky performances in the design of Bapti still has a tremendous impact on the culture, and then a hundred years ago, the artist simply turned all the ideas about the beautiful. Old dyeing European Theater was a sithon. The French press grumbled about the "these great Russians", especially "those that draw and dance" so that after them it became impossible to watch the usual theater.

Not only is the Bakst section of a woman, he first painted her body. Yes, yes, the first tattoo, more precisely, Body Art, is also Lion Bakst, he did it before futurists who are considered to be pioneers here. At the exhibition, we saw a wonderful favorite suit with a blue scarf for a batch of Nizhinsky. It is known that on the feet of the dancer, too, was not at all a trico, but a skillful painting on the body. An exposure for Bakx meant a lot, but this incredible theatrical sexuality was not unambiguously perceived by all. For example, Salome, which artist issued, was banned in St. Petersburg. Only the dance of the seven coiled was allowed, where the extravagant Idu Rubinstein was turned off like a cocoon until her completely naked painted body appeared.

Vladimir Bokhmat, Businessman: "I threw all things today to come to Pushkin, and discovered a completely new artist for myself. Of course, I heard the surname, but it was not associated with anything. Most of all I was struck by the painting "Ancient Horror". I seem to me so much prophetic! I think the artist somehow knew how to watch through the time and saw the troubles of the new era. Portrait Hippius, of course, very clins, not so, can, like Andrei White, but Bakst, of course, a bold man. Considering the time, hundreds of statures, I think: how hard it lived him. But all the geniuses are difficult. "

When art is not only beautiful, but also fashionable. In the Pushkin Museum, a large-scale exhibition of the works of Lion Baksta opened. It is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the famous artist. Art connoisseurs first of all recall his work for the "Russian seasons" of Sergei Dyagilev, and fashion designers are sketches for fabrics and accessories. As a leaving from the Belarusian Grodno could turn into a legislator of the European Fashion, the correspondent of the World TV channel Catherine Rogal learned.

"French Revolution" is a sustainable concept. But if the coups on the streets organized locals, then the revolution in the French theater could only arrange Russian. Bright and provocative costumes of Leon Baksta to the "Russian seasons" of Dyagileev turned the head of the European public. Having visited the performances, fans wanted to get the costumes invented by the artist, and were ready for everything for everyone.

"Bakst was the sexiest of all the artist, he allowed women not to stand, but to lie on the pillows, wearing harslers, translucent tunics, remove the corset. The erotic beginning, which is present in his sketches, could not help the women of Edwardian era brought up in Victorian Puritanism, "says Alexander Vasilyev's fashion historian.

Bakst, native of the Belarusian Grodno, from portraits and landscapes began. Then he was still called Leib Haim Rosenberg. Pseudonym Bakst is a shortened surname of Grandma Baxter - he took it later, for his first exhibition. It will take a lot of years before the guy from a poor Jewish family will feel at home and in St. Petersburg, and in Paris.

"In the West, he was in the zenith of glory, which rarely happens in such an artistic field. Bakst is well known in our country, including due to the fact that he entered the "World of Arts" Pleiad. It is no coincidence that our exhibition we see portraits of friends and companions of Baksta: Alexander Benouua, Sergey Dyagileva, Viktor Nouvel, Zinaida Hippius. All of them are representatives of our "silver century," - notes the curator of the exhibition Natalia Autonomov.

Bright paints, lush fabrics. It seems that you are not in the center of Moscow, but somewhere in the east. Bakst, who collected the motives for his work around the world, and the exhibition organizers collected his works. For example, "Portrait of the Countess Keller" brought from Zagaisk. It turned out that in a small town, where the only sight is the Kremlin, there is the work of the famous artist. Sketch of Cleopatra costume, which Bakst made specially for the dancer Ida Rubinstein, delivered from London.

"Not every exhibition requires such a detailed approach. Very much needed to collect different things, and then do so that they began to live with each other, "says the director of GMI them. A.S. Pushkin Marina Hasp.

Works for this exhibition shared 30 museum and private collections. But it was in the Pushkin Museum connecting the East and ancient Greece, the past and modern, each of the paintings, as if, was in its place.

Moscow, 7 Jun - RIA Novosti, Anna Gorbashova. The solemn discovery of a large-scale retrospective exhibition "Lion Bakst / Léon Bakst. To the 150th anniversary of the birth" on Monday, under the manshlag in the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin (GMIA) within the festival "Cherry Forest".

The first guests of the exhibition, which will open for visitors on June 8, were the director of the Tretyakovskaya Gallery of Zelfira Togulov, Svetitsa Christina Orbakayte, Alena Sviridova, Glavred Magazine L "Officient Russia Ksenia Sobchak, Actress Marina Zudina, Financister Mark Garber, TV presenter Irad Zeynalova and other famous cultural figures and show business.

In the "Italian courtyard" guests met the model in dresses from the capsular collection of the famous Italian fashion designer Antonio Marras, which were created according to the sketches of the Baksta specifically for the exhibition. Marras himself also attended the opening.

Beauty world created by Bakstom

"Our exhibition presents all aspects of bitter creativity - portraits, landscapes, theater costumes, beautiful fabrics created by his sketches. We tried that it was a story about the artist who created the world of beauty around him. You will see 250 works, including Extremely rare from the private collections and the largest museums of the world, "said the director of Pushkin Marina Horsk, opening the exhibition.

She noted that the curators stood a difficult task, and the exhibition was complex.

"I'm terrified that today we are so many today. We did not expect so many people," the horse was surprised.

The ideological inspirer of the Cherry Forest festival, the head of the Bosko company Mikhail Kosnirovich notified those present that the exposition would have to inspect, crashing into groups.

Excursions are ready to hold theatrical artist Pavel Kaplevich, director of Multimedia Art Museum Olga Sviblov, Fashion historian Alexander Vasilyev, who provided costumes for the exhibition created for Parisian fashion houses on the sketches of Baksta, and other guests are the experts of the artist's creativity.

"It is symbolic that on the birthday of Pushkin in the Pushkin Museum we discover the creativity of Baksta. We are enthusiastically, I forgot about traditional snacks, we came to a meeting with art," Cusnirovich called for attention to attention, because on the central staircase he had to perform Microphone.

One of the curators of the exhibition, British art historian John Bowlt joked that he personally believes in space signs, and such a sign was sent to him.

"I believe in space signs. It is known that Pushkin loved women's legs, and Bakst obviously did not like them when we finished preparing for the exhibition, I broke my leg at joy," said Bowlt.

Dyagilev seasons and portraits

Painter, portraitist, theater artist, master of books illustration, interior designer and high fashion designer 1910-Lion Bakst, famous in the West as Leon Bakst, is famous, first of all, with its impressive projects for the "Russian seasons" of Sergei Dyagilev in Paris and London.

Waking up into groups, guests went to inspect the exposition. Kaplevich immediately led to the work of Baptist "Awakening", which was never exhibited in Russia - from the Rothschild Family Foundation.

"Punk on the theme of the tales of" Sleeping Beauty "was ordered by Bastcast Rothschilds. As models, the members of the Rothschilds family posed," Kaplevich said. In total, British billionaires Bakst made seven fabulous panels.

The famous Russian historian Fashion Vasilyev presented at the exhibition more than 20 exhibits from his private collection: fashionable dresses and theatrical costumes of the 1910-1920s to the ballet masses "Tamara", "Shehherazada", "Sleeping Princess" and others created by the sketches of Baksta.

St. Petersburg Museum of the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A.Ya. Vaganova provided for the exposition the famous suit of Vaclav Nizhinsky from the ballet "Ghost Rose".

"Nezhinsky costume is the main erotica of the world," said Tapevich.

Another pearl of the exposition is a sketch of a costume for the beloved ballerina of the artist Ida Rubinstein for the ballet "Cleopatra".

The exposition also entered the machinery of the artist: "Portrait of Sergey Dyagileva with Nanny", self-portrait of the artist, portraits of the poets Andrei White and Zinaida Hippius, as well as decorative panels "Ancient Horror" and other works.

Stylish and smart exhibition

"It turned out a very artistic project, a stylish exhibition, intelligent, in which I was reflected everything that Bakst did - a brilliant section of the portrait and a huge number of things of little-known in Russia. You can apply the words of Dyagilev, which he somehow said Jana Kokteo:" Surprise me, "Share his impressions with the correspondent RIA Novosti Togulov.

In her opinion, in the exhibition present "exactly what you need to say today about this artist."

"It seems to me that the exhibition will enjoy great success, it is intriguing," the director of the Tretyakov Gallery summarized.

Works for the exposition were provided by the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music Arts, State Central Theater Museum named after A.A. Bakhrushina, Central Military Museum (St. Petersburg), Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve, Paris Center Pompidou, London Museum of Victoria and Albert, Family Foundation Rothschilds, Museum of Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, Museum of Israel, as well as private collectors from Moscow, Paris, London and Strasbourg - only 31 participants of the exhibition.

About two hundred and fifty pieces of painting, original and printed graphics, photos, archival documents, rare books, as well as scenic costumes and sketches for fabrics for the first time collected together at the exhibition "Lion Bakst /Léon Bakst.. By the 150th anniversary of birth. "

The exhibition is given due to the rich and diverse creativity of one of the most original and bright artists of the beginning of the twentieth century.

Lev Samoilovich Bakst, in the West known as Leon Bakst, is famous, first of all, with its impressive projects for Russian seasons S. Dyagileev in Paris and London. Its unusual and dynamic scenery and costumes ensured the success of such legendary productions as "Cleopatra", "Shehherazada", "Blue God" and "Sleeping Princess", and influenced the general idea of \u200b\u200bthe scenic design. Considering the ballet, opera and drama as synthetic artistic structures, in which color, sound, word and movement are equal partners, cooperating with such outstanding personalities - impresario, artists, musicians, dancers and writers - like Sergey Dyagilev, Vaclav Nizhinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Benoita, Claude Debussie, Ida Rubinstein, Isadora Duncan, Gabriel d'Annuncio, etc., Bakst radically changed the way of existence of an artist on stage, freeing the energy of his movement and creating an organic connection between the external and the auditorium.

Bakst became famous not only as a theater artist, but also as a painter, like a portraitist, as a master of book and magazine, interior designer and the creator of high fashion 1910s, close to fashionable houses Packen, Chanel and Poire. Bakst also developed the design of jewelry, bags, wigs and other fashion accessories, wrote articles about modern art, design and dance, read lectures in Russia, Europe and America about fashion and modern art, wrote full of intriguing details Avtobiographical novel, was fond of photography and at the end Life showed great interest in movies. Lovers in the old days and in Eastern Art, Lion Bakst united the extravagance of AR Nouveau with a sense of measure and common sense - this rare combination brought him world glory.

The exposition includes works from public and private Russian and Western meetings. Many of them are first demonstrated in Russia. Works presented at the exhibition in GMI them. A.S. Pushkin, cover a number of the most important for the artist themes: Landscapes, portraits, panels, trendy toilets and fabrics, and, of course, the theater to which the main part of the exposition is devoted. Among the theater works, it is impossible not to note the suits for Ida Rubinstein in the Salom Party for the "Dance of Seven Covered" (1908, GTG) and in the Cleopatra Party for the same name Ballet (1909, SPBGMTI; Dar of the International Charitable Foundation "Konstantinovsky" in 2013; from the collection Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Rostov); Sketches of the costumes of "Bread" (approx. 1911, SPBGMTI) and "Vakhanki" (1911, Pompidou Center, Paris) to the Narcissal Ballet; Sketch of a costume for Vaclav Nizhinsky in the party of Faun to the ballet "Afternoon rest of Favna" (1912, private collection, Paris); Sketch of the suit "Youth, accompanying Orpheus in the temple" to the ballet "Orpheus" (1914, GMI. A.S. Pushkin); Sketch of the "Colombina" costume to the ballet "Sleeping Princess" (1921, Museum of Victoria and Albert, London). Expositions will feature well-known machinery: "Portrait of Sergey Dyagilev with nanny" (1906, timing), "Self-portrait" (1893, timing), "Dinner" (1902, MRM), portraits of Dmitry Philosophian (1897, Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts name P.S. Gamzatova, Makhachkala), Andrei White (1906, GLM, Moscow) and Zinaida Hippius (1906, GTG), Decorative Panno "Ancient Horror" ("Terror Antiquus") (1908, timing) and "ELISIUM" (curtain For the drama Theater V.F. Commissioner in St. Petersburg, 1906, MRM).

A number of suits created by the sketches of Baksta will be presented: the Museum of the Russian Academy of Ballet named after A.Ya. Vaganova will show the famous suit of Waclav Nijinsky in the party of the Ghost Rose, the St. Petersburg State Museum of theatrical and Music Arts provided four costumes: Japanese dolls for the Faith Trefilova Ballet "Fairy Dolls", Cleopatra Ballet, "Carnival", "Daphnis and Chloe. " Famous Russian Fashion Historian Alexander Vasilyev - more than 10 exhibits from its collection: fashionable dresses and theatrical costumes of the 1910-1920s to the ballet men "Tamara", "Shehherazada", "Sleeping Princess".

The art of Lion Baksta is an organic part of the revival of interest in the decorative art of the beginning of the twentieth century in Russia, Europe and America. The innovation and ingenuity created by the artist of the stage design still affects the modern artistic process.

A scientific illustrated catalog has been prepared for the exhibition, which presents about 400 artists.

Exhibition curators:

John E. Bowlt, Director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture at the University of Southern California, USA
Natalia Borisovna Avtonovova, head of the department of personal collections of the GMIA. A.S. Pushkin

The State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin opened an exhibition, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of connoisseurs of different styles and directions of painting.

In the exposition of 250 works of Lion Baksta - Portretist, master of landscape and book illustrations, theater artist. They were provided with the largest museums of the world and private collectors. And some - the Russian audience will see for the first time.

"Dinner", after which the scandal broke out. This picture of the lion of Baksta contemporaries called too frank and frightening. In the smile of the lady, many learned from Jocona, and in oranges they saw forbidden fruit. A stranger with snake bends of the body clearly kept.

Each picture Bakst intrigued. The poetess Zinaida Hippius, he depicted a rebellion in a male costume, many portraits did not intentionally ended, while passing facial features with photographic accuracy. And the image of Sergey Dyagilev critics immediately recognized the most accurate.

"Bakst somehow summarizes all elements of a Dyagilev. On the one hand, we see very such theater, and on the other hand, it can be said, even an old-fashioned, nostalgic person. That is, it is not at all by chance that against the background of his nanny, "said the curator of the exhibition John Bowlt.

He never chased his glory - she came to him herself. And even Rothschilds ordered the finishing of their estate Baksta. As models for panels based on the "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale, the family members, their friends, servants and even the dog are written off from the beloved pet Rothschilds themselves.

But the main model for the artist remained the wife - Lyubov Gritsenko, the daughter of the Tretyakov gallerist. And even when they quarreled, the most romantic plots Bakst dedicated his spouse. As in this picture. And if you accepted her for still life, then look carefully.

"We see Baksta himself and his wife. In general, all the mood of this work, you see, wears a somewhat such sadness. And characteristic of the mood of the Baksta of this moment. He is on the eve of the divorce with his wife, "says the director of the GMIA. A.S. Pushkin Marina Hasp.

Gellers and collectors of the whole world hunt for the works of Baksta, and he himself often belonged to their work. Thrown out and burned them. He painted rapidly and quickly, and in search of inspiration traveled all the world, staying in love with antique Greece until the end of the life.

Aphrodite smiles while the world collapses behind her back. Many critics believed that the painting "Ancient Horror" Bakst predicted the fall of the Russian Empire and the victory of the revolution of the 17th year. And this is already paradise on Earth - mythical elusive. One of the options for this plot, the artist chose for the curtain of the theater of faith Commissioner. Moscow spectators will see him for the first time.

Chief artist "Russian seasons" Dyagilev, he made a coup in the theater. Having successfully stitched by the sketches of the bucket costumes, the artists were shocked: where are the starchy packs, where are close corsets, in which the whole world danced then? Instead, there were almost weightless sharovars and chiffon dresses, only barely covering the body. In a suit from Silk Jersey, Vaclav Nizhinsky conquered the audience with her party of the ghost of roses. Bakst then followed the work of the modists.

"According to the memories of contemporaries, these petals that we see on a suit have cut out on its specific drawing. And he himself commanded how to sew them - whether all the petals or some part of the petal so that they were in such vibration, "says the curator of the exhibition Natalya Avtonovova.

But only the tissues were not enough for him, and he drew right on the naked legs, hands and shoulders. His sketches for the ballet "Shekhrezada" and "Cleopatra" became alive, dancing figures became cult. He created them specifically for Ida Rubinstein.

Then, for the first time in the theater, they began to come specifically for sake of decorations and costumes. Paris was drunk Bakstom. And the fashionista-French people asked their tailors to sew them the dresses of A la Bakst - Arabic or pseudo-feather style. Now many of these outfits are in the collection of Alexander Vasilyeva.

"Turban, lack of corset, sharovar, skirt-shade - details that carry Parisian to the atmosphere of harem. Bakst - the creator of orange in fashion. And many nontrivial combinations of fashion 1910-1920 came from Leon Baksta. This is purple and green. The combination, such as raspberry and extreme bronze or gold, "- tells the historian of fashion Alexander Vasilyev.

It turned into a style legislator. All the leading modes of fashion begged Baksta to draw at least a few sketches for them. And at the time when the ladies also did not think to wear trousers, he already said that the female fashion seeks for men. He did not step up time, but only created an era.