Empresses, peasants and artists: women in Russian art on display in Milan
From October 28, 2020 to September 12, 2021, the Divine and Avant-garde exhibition will arrive at Palazzo Reale. Women in Russian art. The exhibition returns an idea of Russian art and the fundamental role of women in this country, their contribution to the history of art, their role in society for the emancipation and recognition of rights through a rich body of works , through different means of expression and techniques to represent cultural and social evolution.
Between empresses, peasant women and artists
About 90 works largely never exhibited before in Italy, in a story that unfolds through 8 different sections and 2 large chapters: on the one hand the woman and her role in society with saints and madonnas, empresses, peasants and workers, intellectuals and mothers portrayed by the great masters: Ilya Repin, Boris Kustodiev and Filipp Maljavin, the supremacist Kazimir Malevich and the masters of the 1910s and 1920s, Aleksandr Dejneka, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, author of the portrait of the poet Anna Achmatova, just to name a few.
On the other hand, women artists, “the amazons of the Russian avant-garde”, women protagonists of an extraordinary cultural, historical and social atmosphere, active in the first thirty years of the twentieth century when they created works original and innovative: Natalia Goncharova, Ljubov Popova, Aleksandra Ekster and still artists of socialist realism such as the sculptor Vera Mukhina with her bronze model of the sculptural complex “The worker and the kolkhoz” for the USSR pavilion at the Paris Expo of 1937.
Tickets
Reservation of tickets is recommended; more information on the Palazzo Reale website.