Exhibition "Along the Roads of War"

About exhibition

The exhibition presents the work of the Mitrofan Grekov Studio — the only creative association of military artists in the world, established in 1934 in memory of the first battle painter Mitrofan Grekov. The studio preserves the traditions of Russian and Soviet realist art and produces works on battle and patriotic themes. With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, many Grekov artists went to the front with marching companies. Throughout the war, the studio's artists, while serving in the active army, continued to record everything they saw and experienced, which made it possible to reliably and convincingly convey the living breath of those terrible years in drawings, and later on canvas. Posters, frontline drawings and sketches by the Grekov artists became symbols of the wartime period. Works by the Honored Artist of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and frontline veteran Anatoly Sundukov, who volunteered for the front in 1942 straight from the bench of the art school, will also be shown at traveling exhibitions in the region's palaces of culture and schools. In the fire of great battles the thoughts and feelings of the future artist ripened. As a prelude to later paintings celebrating the feat of the Soviet people, a series of frontline drawings and sketches from 1942–1945 is presented to viewers.