Anybody can look at the real winter in the Vereshchagin museum

Nikolaev Regional Art Museum of Vereshchagin recently presented a new exhibition - Winter Kaleidoscope in Nikolaev Ukraine. The exhibition presents works related to the winter holidays, rites and customs, as well as simply representing the views of this particular time of year.

In this exhibition, for the first time product of different types and genres of art were combined, however, the topic of all is one, as evidenced by the very title of the exhibition. The exhibition represents the icons, sculptures, graphic works and paintings of famous and lesser-known artists, there are even children's work. Among the authors - Solomatkin L., A. Tokarev, A. Nikolaets, B. Polischuk, F. Konovalyuk, T. Gaponenko, M. Parkhomenko, S. Yanchuk, A. Lebed, M. Mishchenko, M. Ozernyy, S. Dolnik and the others.

All the exhibits are from the museum. Artworks were created in different historical intervals: the hall has the icons of the XVIII century, the work of artists of the second half of the XIX century, our contemporaries. Some of them are exhibited for the first time. There are four components of the exhibition: the first - religious themes presented in the form of iconic works, the second - graphic works by different artists, which depict winter scenes and winter holidays. The largest section are paintings and, finally, it was not without the use of modern technologies - digital projections of the best works of the winter. The exhibition presents about 70 works of art in total.

The combination of completely different techniques and genres is surprising. To create pictures, icons, cards, textiles, paper, oil, pastel, gouache, aquatint (a kind of etching), watercolor, lithographs were used. You can see the countryside, mountains, scenes from everyday life and celebrations of the streets of the city of Nikolaev - all of which invariably occurs in the entourage of the winter season.

It should be recalled that the museum has seven main exhibitions: XVII-XIX centuries iconography, XVIII - first half XIX centuries art, the second half of the nineteenth century art, Art and Memorial Hall of V.V. Vereshchagin, the academic art of the nineteenth century, the art of the late XIX - early XX centuries, Western European art. The funds are more than eight thousand works of art. Moreover, the museum building itself is an architectural monument of the second half of XIX century.