Society and book culture: The exhibition of graphic illustrations “The Lay of Igor's Campaign” in Veliky Novgorod

April 29, 2016 in the exhibition hall of the Museum of Fine Arts (Veliky Novgorod) is opened an exhibition of Honored Artist of Russia Yuri Lukshin "The Lay of Igor's Campaign". The exhibition presents about fifty easel works from the series "Lay".

Fascinated by Russian religious philosophy and ideas of Orthodoxy, the master created his original style, absorbed the traditions of iconography, folk images and splint that gets reflected in the cycles of easel paintings on the theme: "St. Sergius of Radonezh", "Diary of a pilgrim", "The Lay of Igor's Campaign", "Boris Godunov" by A. S. Pushkin.

The first bookplates by Lukshin to the "Lay" appeared in 1993. And in 1999, the artist began working on a cycle of easel watercolors. Today, the cycle has more than 120 works. He was awarded the medal of the Russian Academy of Arts and exhibited in major museums around Russia. More than fifteen years Lukshin created unique illustrations for the book "Lay" by the publishing house "Rare Book from St. Petersburg" Peter Suspitzin. The first copy of the book belongs to the collection of the State Hermitage, and was exposed in the halls of the museum in the "Book of Art" exhibition in 2012.