"Paintings That Chose Us"

About exhibition

The exhibition features 13 works of painting, graphic art, and decorative-applied art by Russian and Altai artists from the collections of the State Art Museum of the Altai Krai. What unites the works on display is that each has been reproduced on the museum's souvenir items: textile bags, backpacks, silk scarves, lens-cleaning cloths, and wall clocks. The presented works are a pride of the museum's national art collection, notable for their refined visual culture, distinctive worldviews, and a keen sense of the contemporary. Boris Markovich Chebotarev's "Paris. Boulevard" and Alexey Alexandrovich Yugatkin's "Lenin Avenue After the Rain" serve as a benchmark of high-level graphic art. Larisa Nikolaevna Pastushkova's "Morning Bouquet" and Sergey Vladimirovich Dykov's "Ancestor of the Mundus Family" exemplify artists' use of bold, original, and vivid themes, images, and expressive means. In Lyubov Alekseevna Kostenko's "Still Life with a Pipe" and Vladimir Yakovlevich Yukin's "Autumn in Akinshino" one finds the colorfulness of the world, graceful and light execution, and indisputable mastery.