Glazunov Museum - a collection of paintings of the truepatriot. It is located in a renovated mansion in the very center of Moscow, on ul. Volkhonka, d. 13. In the museum you can learn not only about the life and work of an outstanding artist, but also visit thematic exhibitions and musical collections.
Historical reference
An old three-storey house where is locatednow the Glazunov Museum, the Naryshkins family owned. When the widow of General D. S. Dokhturov bought it, he rented a studio apartment, VA, for seven years. Tropinin. Here he painted the portrait of A. Pushkin when he returned from exile in 1826.
Glazunov Museum was opened in 2004.It is based on a collection of paintings and drawings of the artist, brought by him as a gift to the people. This is over seven hundred works. In addition, the Glazunov Museum found a place to house interesting collections of the artist: collections of icons and furniture. It is amazing that people of such a wide soul live in our mercantile time.
Continuation of traditions
Glazunov Ilya Sergeevich continues noblecustoms of patronage, which were laid by the Tretyakov brothers, S. Mamontov. Portraits of artists and politicians, ambitious oil paintings of the 90s, which reflected the chaos and horror of the time, small graphic works, illustrations to the Russian classics, works on the theme of ancient Russia - such a diverse spectrum of works that shed light on the questions that excited the artist, has an art gallery by Ilya Glazunov. In front of you the picture that first became known to the general public.
It is called "100 centuries" or "Eternal Russia",written in 1988. She shook contemporaries when she appeared in small copies. They looked at the saints, public figures, enlighteners, - in a word, the whole procession, which Russia went through in its thousand-year history. Not everyone could get acquainted with the original. Now it is possible to do this by visiting the Glazunov Museum.
Brief biography of the artist
Painter and graphic artist Ilya Glazunov was born inLeningrad in 1930. There he found the war. At the twelve-year-old boy, the whole family perished from hunger. He himself was taken to Ladoga village in the Novgorod region. After the blockade was lifted, the teenager returned to his hometown and began painting. B. Johanson became his teacher in the Academy after the art school.
At twenty-six, Ilya Glazunov marrieda young artist, who left this career, devoting his life to the brilliant spouse and their children. The portrait of the artist with his family is shown in the photo below.
During these years, he developed an interest in the works of F. Dostoevsky, and there are illustrations for the novels "Demons" and "Idiot".
The first personal exhibition of I. Glazunov aroused great interest and controversy.
Travel and work
In the next ten years, the artist works a lotover portraits, landscapes of the Russian North, illustrations of Russian classical literature, holds exhibitions and trips in the Netherlands, France, Laos. Creates the "Vietnamese cycle". He is accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR. In the 70–90s, Ilya Sergeevich Glazunov works a lot on illustrations, creates a cycle dedicated to the Kulikovo battle. He travels to Chile, Finland, Sweden, visits the Optina Hermitage, makes sets for the opera Prince Igor and The Queen of Spades in Berlin, visits Cuba, where he will write a portrait of Fidel Castro. At the same time manages to engage in teaching. In 1999 he received the "Golden Eye Picasso" - a UNESCO medal.
Since 2000, there are constant awards to the artist for his contribution to contemporary art.
А мы вернемся к вопросу, который нас тоже очень interested in. This is the art gallery of Ilya Glazunov, the interior of which was designed by the artist himself. Now it is expanding, a new building is being completed in the courtyard.
What is on display
The Glazunov Museum is impossible to run around in one hour.Starting from the basement floor, where portraits of Italian filmmakers are located, the artist’s wife’s work, sketches and photographs of the working office of the country's president, I want to stay everywhere.
Ground floor
It exhibits the early work of Ilya Glazunov. One of the works, in which the style of the master is already recognized, is called “Love”.
This is perhaps a portrait of the artist and his wife. The two are separated from the rest of the world by their feelings. Their late evening hides a veil of rain and wind, which they do not notice.
Large canvases
After the chamber work follows the passage to the hall, whereLarge-scale canvases are exhibited, which cannot leave indifferent, since they reflected all the drama transferred in the 90s of the revolution. They reflect the pain and horror. This is a chronicle of time. "The market of our democracy" was written in 1999.
Cloth, the greatest in the entire collection,sums up the reign of B. Yeltsin with his conductor’s baton, which has so painfully struck throughout the vast country. In this picture, the rather scandalous TV program “About it” is also not forgotten. The artist depicted himself in the right corner with a poster.
On the same floor in the halls you can find illustrations.to the works of A. Kuprin, A. Blok, F. Dostoevsky, Leskov. They are great deep penetration into the work of our brilliant writers, who are equal in the Western world is very difficult to find.
On the second floor is Russia.And it is wonderful that the painter is so deeply imbued with the history of Russia. Kulikovo Field is the first swallow of freedom, which flashed over Russia and showed the people that the yoke is not forever, that the Tatars can and must be won. Kulikovo Field is a turning point in the worldview of the Russian people.
Third floor
Shows deep antiquity from Rurik, Sineus and Truvor.
Here are the mythical birds of the Slavs - Sirin andAlkonost, portraits of Ivan the Terrible, as well as images of ordinary Russian people. Icons collected by a deeply religious artist, who in his younger years even thought to take the veil, were transferred to a new, not yet open building.
Characteristics of creativity
The artist Ilya Glazunov is many-sided. In his work there are several directions:
- Monumental works.
- Images of Russian history.
- Urban cycle.
- Images of Russian literature.
- Portraits.
- Theater.
- Activities as an architect.
- Literary creativity.
Каждый раз задаешься вопросом:"How can one person create so much that touches the most exciting questions?" He manages to combine the work of the artist with a huge public activity, responding to all that is connected with culture and politics. I. Glazunov was one of the first in the 70s who opposed the general plan for the reconstruction of Moscow. Activists have achieved the preservation of historic buildings in the capital. He continues this work in the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments of Culture.
Glazunov Museum: opening hours
Время работы галереи запомнить не очень сложно.It works from eleven o'clock in the morning until seven in the evening all days of the week, except Thursday, when the museum is open until nine in the evening. The Glazunov Museum in Moscow is very democratic: visitors say that every third Sunday is free.
