Permanent exhibition

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Almost the entire second half of the 19th century was marked by the activities of the Peredvizhniki (the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions). The canvases of A. Savrasov, V. Polenov, V. Makovsky, as well as the idealized-lyrical landscapes of Yu. Klever, aptly reflect this period in Russia's artistic life. The 'Silver Age' of Russian art is vividly represented by the works of A. Arkhipov, P. Petrovichev and others. The 1920s to the early 1930s are characterized by a revival in the artistic community. The older masters continued to work confidently, as evidenced by the painterly compositions of G. Shegal, A. Osmerkin, A. Lentulov and others. The 'Russian Cézannists' continued to develop their materially textured approach, visible in the late canvases of I. Mashkov, A. Kuprin, R. Falk. New associations emerged, often diametrically opposed, such as the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (P. Kotov, P. Sokolov-Skalia, V. Kostyanitsyn), the Society of Easel Painters (A. Deineka, Yu. Pimenov, A. Labas), and 'Makovets' (S. Romanovich, K. Zefirov, N. Chernyshev). The difficult wartime period is reflected in the portraits by F. Modorov, the still lifes of F. Bogorodsky, the landscapes of Ya. Romas and others. A turn to a new pictorial language in the early 1960s led to the emergence of the so-called 'severe style', which is clearly evident in the paintings of P. Ossovsky, I. Popov, P. Nikonov...