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In recent years, Moscow Museum of Modern Art has been fully engaged in the contemporary art. Thereby, the part of collections showing previous stages of artistic development seems to be concealed in the Museum’s storerooms forever. The exhibition will last till February 10, 2013 at 25, Petrovka street, Moscow.
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By popular demands, the MMOMA displays artworks full of the historical context, which reflect the total diversity of trends and tendencies of the Russian 20th century art, the controversial course of its artistic events, once again.
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Harvest, Kazimir Malevich, 1912-1913 // What will they exhibit this time? First of all, it is the classical Russian Avant-garde art of the first quarter of the 20th century, without which it is impossible to understand artistic processes of the whole century.
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Self-portrait, Kazimir Malevich, 1933 // The Museum is proud of its collection of artworks by main representatives of this art movement, i.e. Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, David Burliuk, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Ilya Mashkov, Lyubov Popova, Robert Falk, Boris Grigoriev, Ilya Chashnik, Eduard Krimmer, Vladimir Dmitriev and others.
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Visitors can also take an interest in the section of virtuoso sanguine pictures by Vasily Shukhaev, who belongs to the neoclassical movement, which is opposite to the avant-garde art but paradoxically enriches it.
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Artworks by expatriate Russian artists can be seen in another hall. Today the Russian viewers can discover the art, which has been kept under wraps until recently.
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Untitled, Vladimir Izdebsky, 1882-1965 // In a relatively short period of time, the Museum’s team could collect first-class works by immigrant artists, i.e. Boris Anisfeld, Serge Charchoune, Andrei Lanskoy, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, Pyotr Dmitrienko, Alexandra Exter, Vladimir Izdebsky.
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An important section of the exhibition contains artworks by non-conformist artists of the 1960-1970s.
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The so-called «Second Russian Avant-garde» has challenged the official art in the bold atmosphere of the forbidden exhibitions, for example, the celebrated open-air Bulldozer exhibition, arranged in 1974 in the Belyaevo district.
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Masters of the so-called «left MOSKh» are close to the non-official art. They are Illarion Golitsyn, Natalia Egorshina, Nikolai Andronov, Andrei Vasnetsov.
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Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Kazimir Malevich, 1933 // The history of the 20th and 21st century art ends with works by actual artists. Among authors there are post-conceptualists and young conceptualists, such as Aidan Salakhova, Pavel Pepperstein, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt, Oleg Tistol, Igor Kopystyansky, Konstantin Latyshev, Alexei Kallima, Dmitri Tsvetkov and others.
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Next to painters of the Moscow circle, there are artists of the Leningrad Underground of the 1980s, the legendary New Artists group headed by Timur Novikov, the leader of the group. Together with his works, there are works by Oleg Kotelnikov, Vadim Ovchinnikov, Inal Savchenkov and Ivan Sotnikov.
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Their vivid, expressive canvases return the shocking atmosphere of avant-garde art, closing the historical circle. The visitors are invited to explore difficult ways of the artistic life of the 20th- 21st cc.
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