Exhibitions: Works of the Leningrad artist Georgy Tatarnikov presented in Saint-Petersburg

From 6 March to 5 April 2015 in the Rumyantsev Mansion (the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg) is held an exhibition of works by Leningrad artists Georgy Tatarnikov, whose work became a bright and distinctive phenomenon in Russian painting of 1940-1960s. The exhibition presents about 100 works: landscapes, portraits and historical paintings.

The exhibition features the Volga landscapes, which convey the beauty of wide open spaces of the Great Russian River. In particular, the sketch in 1950 to well-known large landscape painting of Tatarnikov "Volga Cheremshan health resort", which by its wholeness and completeness could be described as an independent work.

The largest part of the exhibition is the Crimean landscapes. Be these small, the etude character works, the artist was able to solve the most complex problems of lighting, air movement, the play of light and shadow, the instant of a state of nature.

The exhibition also features works with the views of the Czech Republic and Switzerland, which the artist visited in 1957.

At the turn of 1950-1960 Tatarnikov wrote a great series of Leningrad landscapes. In the works of "Isaac's Square" (1958), "An Evening at the Sink" (1969), presented at the exhibition, he conveyed the atmosphere and rhythm of life of Leningrad in those years and his own sense of the city on the Neva.

The exhibition is complemented with wonderful rural landscapes, views of the surrounding Leningrad: Peterhof, Wyry, the Oredezh River, the Ladoga lake.

Tatarnikov worked in the field of historical and genre painting. Among the thematic exhibition of the artist's special interest is the work devoted to the epoch of Peter I: "Drag portage ships under Peter I" (1940), "Peter battles" (1940), "Peter I" (1954). These and other works on the theme of Peter's time to become for Tatarnikova a serious preparatory work for his most famous historical paintings "There will be founded a city", dedicated to the founding of St. Petersburg. Sketch of this painting in 1957 can be seen at the exhibition.

Georgy Tatarnikov left behind a great artistic heritage, which reveals his vision of the world and its distinctive artistic language. His works are in many museums and private collections around the world.