World culture: The exhibition “The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde” in Moscow

Since June 11, 2013 for the first time in Russia at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) after the incredible success of the London gallery “Tate Britain” and the Washington National Gallery is presented the exhibition “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde”.

Founded in 1848, the “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” can rightly be considered the first avant-garde movement in Europe. Like the creative associations of the XX century, the Pre-Raphaelites had a clear artistic program and worked in different ways: their activities included painting, drawing, photography, poetry, essays, book design, Interior design, furniture design.

The exposition in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts included art and applied art - more than 80 works from the museum and private collections in the U.S. and the UK, including Tate pearl collection - paintings “Ophelia”, “Mariana” by John Everett Millais, “Beloved” and “Proserpina” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

The exhibition continues the large-scale project on acquaintance with the great British artists, jointly implemented by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Tate Gallery, the Alisher Usmanov Charitable Foundation “Art, Science and Sport” in collaboration with the British Council.

The unique literary project - the publication of a collection “Poetic world of the Pre-Raphaelite”, and a rich educational program for children and adults is timed to the exhibition “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde”.