Museums and Society: The exhibition "Life through the eyes of soldiers" opened in New Manege in Moscow

In the capital New Manege of August 19, 2016 is opening the exhibition "Life through the eyes of soldiers".

The exhibition is a collection of paintings and graphics of the Great Patriotic War veterans. The exhibition is divided into 6 sections, each of which presents the work of one artist.

On the Great Patriotic War fronts the people of different professions: engineers, builders, musicians, teachers, doctors, athletes, writers. Most of these professions could not find its use in combat, but as soon as it is peacetime, the people won, returned to their usual professional activity. Among the winners were also painters.

The exhibition at the New Manege combines the creative heritage of the six painters, members of the Moscow Union of Artists, who have been through war: Gennady Fedorovich Efimochkin, Efrem Ivanovich Zverkov, Yuri Amrosievich Knyazev, Victor Ivanovich Makeev, Vladimir Ivanovich Pereyaslavets, Alexander Yevgeniyevich Stepanka. In fact, the audience is invited to just six solo exhibitions of distinguished Russian artists, each of which uses its imagery and artistic means. The works are a reflection of how global processes - history, progress and political change, and personal history of each author. War is not a universal source of images, though united by the biographies of all the exhibitors. In the space of the New Manege presents the work of artists created in the Soviet period, since the 50s, and completely new.