These unique materials, we show for the first time, – says the Director of the Museum of art in St. Petersburg of the XX-XXI centuries, Marina Dzhigarkhanyan. – Some time ago the Union of artists gave us a big box of children’s drawings which were created by the children were in evacuation in Siberia.
the Children of members of the Union of artists and Union of architects was taken in November 1941 in the village Emurtla, then in Omsk region. Some drove their mothers, many of them, too, was no stranger to art and the evacuation left no creativity.
the Children drew what surrounded them: the school scenes, landscapes, animals, – says Marina Dzhigarkhanyan. – But most of all we were amazed that many of the drawings are allocated the amazing artistic significance, they already felt the future of talent.
the St. Petersburg artist Vladimir Proshkin was among those children. He recalls:
In the van we drove for forty days. It was November, the temperature in the car did not rise above minus 12 degrees, almost all the time it was dark, but I remember this time somehow very funny: we even wrote a song about this journey and sang her all the way. And in the village we were greeted very warmly: each a mug of milk and bread, we really do not remember, when what he saw.
the Sister of artist Alexander Samokhvalov daughter, the wife of the famous graphics of Evgeny Kibrik with children, sons of George Traugot – all of them were inhabitants of the same village.
– Remember Slava Serov, subsequently, our great artist, we went to the river to watch the sunsets, – says Vladimir Proshkin. – Of course, eating everything under his feet: moms we are specifically taught this. For example, the Lily-Sarankov suited not only to the bouquet, to write a still life, but the bulbs they could eat – tasted like apples…
Sculptor Schultz, later evacuated from Leningrad, staged in the hut, where he lived, a real Studio for students. It was there that he received his first lessons subsequently great Leningrad sculptor Kira Suvorova: clay in the area was enough.
But the paper did not suffice. So many children’s drawings presented at the exhibition, made on a tiny pieces, sometimes on the reverse side of envelopes.
– This exhibition is not about war, but about life, emphasizes its curator Quiz Smurova. – On a child’s life, which came at such a grim time.
the exhibition presents 75 works, although the Museum’s archive of around a thousand of them.
– unfortunately, not all drawings are signed, but for many it is already possible to know the future hand of the artist, the researchers said. For example, the real discoveries were waiting for us when we found pictures of Valery Traugot. To see how formed the style, the taste, the writing of an artist is a continual delight.
The exhibition is accompanied by video – recording the memories sent the descendants of those children. The fate of many scattered around the world, in different countries and even continents. But the drawings of their parents, who always fondly remembered Emurtla, they have kept carefully.
to See the exhibition everyone will be able on the Museum’s website and in its groups in social networks.
