Exhibition "Naive Artists in the 20th Century"

About exhibition

The exhibition introduces the best works of naive art from the 1960s-1980s and explains the characteristics of naive art in Russia. Naive art is distinguished by narrative and thematic diversity, original individual artistic techniques, and striking uses of color. Many works by naive artists depict the beauty of their native region, historical events, loved ones and personal biography, and the engaging world of animals. All this variety of subjects, characters, and colors created by well-known naive artists will be presented at the exhibition. Naive art is not a movement, a school, or a single style. It is a heterogeneous, elusive phenomenon of self-taught artists' creativity, whose practitioners lack a systematic understanding of drawing techniques and art history. The core of the exhibition is easel painting, which is organically complemented by works on paper and a section of decorative and applied arts: a large, brightly embroidered rug on the theme of Russian folk tales, wooden sculpture, articulated wooden toys, and windmills.