Admire the winter!

On New Year’s Eve, the Winter in the City exhibition, organised jointly with the Belarusian Union of Artists, opened at the Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery

Kolyady in Kreva by Viktor Barabantsev

“Winter landscape is a popular theme among Belarusian masters who see beauty and charm in any season and weather. For each author, winter acquires its own mood: for some it is harsh and gloomy, for others it is serene and soft, for some it is sparkling and cheerful,” noted the workers of the gallery. 
The exhibition presented more than 50 works of painting and graphics, which cover the period from the 1960s to the present day. These are mainly urban landscapes of the capital and the surrounding area.
“Winter in the city is more often presented in the form of fun traditional for this time of the year than nature itself. A vivid example of this is Merry Winter in Loshitsa and Winter Festival in Traktorny Village by Vasily Sumarev, where you can see a variety of winter entertainments: skating, skiing, ice slides, tug-of-war, as well as playing snowballs. Aleksei Koktev’s sunny Sunday Afternoon conveys the sporty atmosphere of skiing competitions,” said the organisers.  According to them, a completely different mood is in the works of Boris Arakcheyev, Abram Krol, Anton Barkhatkov, Ivan Dmukhaylo, Mikhail Savitsky, Georgy Poplavsky. In the paintings of these authors, winter appears rather harsh and gray, and the city is immersed in everyday affairs and prosaic everyday life. 
The exhibition also features works by contemporary authors. You can see paintings by Viktor Barabantsev. The artist likes to write about the winter holidays. For example, one of the works is dedicated to the Christmas time.
Vasily Peshkun pays special attention to Minsk and the city landscape in his works. His canvases represent all the shades and moods of winter. Such different winter moods can be experienced at the exhibition, which will run until January 23rd.






By Olga Korneeva
Photos: www.minskmuseum.by