Exhibition: The "Painting with Words" exhibition from the collections of the State Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky was opened in Tula

The "Painting with the words" exhibition from the collections of the State Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky (Moscow) opened on November 13, 2015, in the Yasnaya Polyana gallery (Tula).

The main idea of the exhibition is to demonstrate the versatile talents of representatives of the Russian avant-garde. Visitors can get acquainted with unique paintings and graphic works of Vladimir Mayakovsky and the futurists artists: David Burliuk, Vasily Kamensky, Sergei Bobrov, Olga Rozanova and others, as well as with posters of the Rosta (Russian Telegraph Agency’s) Windows and a book autographed by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The exhibition is organized within the framework of "Unknown about the Well-known Ones" project of the "Yasnaya Polyana" gallery.

A close relationship between poetry and painting inheres in the Russian avant-garde art. Vladimir Mayakovsky and David Burliuk had an art education. Many poets, including Vasily Kamensky, were in painting. A number of Russian avant-garde painters wrote poetry.

Exhibits of this exposition are chosen to demonstrate to the viewer the art, which is based on a synthesis of different aesthetic practices and artistic ways. Paintings and drawings by masters of the word encourages us to think about the nature of talent and multifaceted forms of its expression, and the unsurpassed techniques of the renderings of these works make us to turn to Russian avant-garde with pride and interest.