Word: tretyakov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIKHAIL NESTEROV, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow. Works of art -- some never before exhibited -- by Russian master Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942), from the Tretyakov Gallery and Moscow private collections. Included is his Russia, the Soul of the People, symbolic of Russia's historical spiritual quest, depicting the religious philosopher Vladimir Solovyov and Leo Tolstoy walking along the banks of the Volga among multitudes of Russian people of different epochs...
...single art event symbolized Russia's thawed relations to its own modernist past, it was the show at the Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow last winter by a painter and mystic who died in 1935, well into the Stalin era, and whose work remained buried for decades thereafter: Kasimir Malevich...
...usual, TV seemed more fascinated by small, vivid, personal moments than by the big strategic picture: Reagan dozing during a speech, the First Lady trying to get reporters' attention away from Raisa Gorbachev at the Tretyakov Gallery, Gorbachev directing reporters at a press conference to change seats when they could not hear the translations. In the meantime, the networks filled out their nightly half-hours with interchangeable feature stories and ponderously superfluous analysis ("Well, I've been thinking about the cold war, Tom," began a John Chancellor commentary; snores followed...
...exhibition contains 62 paintings from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Leningrad, and was organized by the Soviet Embassy and Ministry of Culture. A companion exhibition, New Horizons: American Painting 1840-1910, will travel to the Soviet Union in late...