History and Culture: Exhibition "Step out of the Shade. Women in the History of Russian Art of the XVIII-XX Centuries" from the collection of the State Russian Museum presented in Belgorod

The Belgorod Art Museum holds the exhibition "Step out of the Shade. Women in the History of Russian Art of the XVIII-XX Centuries" from the collection of the State Russian Museum. It will run until February 21, 2021.

Belgorod hosts the collection of the world's largest museum of Russian art for the third time. The exhibition features 67 paintings and applied art items: artworks of Russian artists of the XVIII-XX centuries - A. P. Antropov, V. L. Borovikovsky, A. G. Venetsianov, R. I. Felitsin, K. E. Makovsky, M. K. Bashkirtseva, N. N. Bekker, B. M. Kustodiev, Z. E. Serebryakova, N. S. Goncharova, I. E. Grabar, A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, A. V. Shevchenko, N. I. Nesterov and others.

The exhibition illustrates the modern discourse about the role and forms of female presence in the Russian-European culture of three centuries. Thus, the exposition discusses many special issues: a woman as a source of inspiration, as a leader, as a focus of attention, as a creator, as a mother, etc.

The exposition comprises works of different periods, themes and styles. It includes ceremonial images and intimate portraits, as well as early pale paintings and temperamental and bright pictures of the later times.

A special exhibition section is devoted to applied art items - porcelain statues, authentic and precious tableware of the 1920s - 1930s, 1950s. Most of the exhibits are the works by N. Ya. Danko, A. V. Schekatikhina-Pototskaya, P. N. Shuriga that were made at the State Porcelain Factory. This enterprise is one of the oldest in Europe and the first and the largest porcelain company in Russia. In 1924, it was named after Mikhail Lomonosov. Now it is the Imperial Porcelain Factory.