Society and Culture: A unique collection of the twentieth century art at the exposition of "New Jerusalem" museum and exhibition complex

On March 7, 2015, the "New Jerusalem" Museum and Exhibition Complex (Moscow Region) opens the exhibition entitled "Russian Art of the First Half of the XX Century." Regular museum’s visitors well know the collection of art of the twentieth century, since numerous exhibitions were created on its base, but the collection of art of the first half of the last century will be shown in this volume for a first time.

Along with paintings the viewers will get a chance to see the beautiful graphic works of Robert Falk, Konstantin Rudakov, Arthur Fonvizin, Antonina Sofronova, Vladimir Milashevsky, Mikhail Sokolov, Tatyana Mavrina, and Anton Chirkov.

The significance of the "New Jerusalem" museum's collection is not only that it is composed of first-class works of famous artists. Gathering this collection from the beginning was aimed at opening the names of artists that were working in line with the most extensive pictorial-plastic and cultural traditions, but someway were missed in the official history of the Soviet art. The flowering of creativity of these masters fell at a time when socialist realism with its class approach was declared the main creative method, and their art, speaking to the eternal values and to each one’s personal space, for many years was strike out from the artistic life. Thanks to the efforts of art historians, the "New Jerusalem" museum and exhibition complex has now become one of the best collections of art of this period.