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Brush at holiday / 2006/ Crimean landscapes in the SOVCOM Art Gallery.By Irina Kulick, the Kommersant, No. 146, August 10th 2006.

The exhibition “the Crimea – artists at the resort" opened in the SOVCOM Art Gallery of Moscow, which is specializes on the Soviet Art, included the works of well-known and other painters, which were created since 1930th till 2000. Almost seventy years of the Crimea were exposed to Irina Kulick.
The exhibition “the Crimea – artists at the resort" opened in the SOVCOM Art Gallery of Moscow, which is specializes on the Soviet Art, included the works of well-known and other painters, which were created since 1930th till 2000. Almost seventy years of the Crimea were exposed to Irina Kulick. Playing a holiday-maker, the Soviet painters felt freedom in their vacation landscapes, however excluding it from "winter" days (otherwise they would gain the character of precisians and ornamentors), but the Crimea scenery, perhaps, communicates to this superfluity a kind of alibi. “Peacocks in Artek", painted in 1958 by Konstantin Prokhorov, spread their tails with colourful languor of the modern. And in 1970-s, generally speaking, Mark Rudakov perceived Gurzuph as some kind of Klondike of bootlegged landscape reminiscences:”Gurzuph in Spring” has common properties with Cezanne as well as with early Roerich. “In the Dawn. Gurzuph” refers to symbolist Churlenis, and even “The Cat in Gurzuph" is sitting between two guitars, which seem to be near of turning inside out with cubic edges. Andrey Tutunov saw Koktebell through the prism of Maximilian Voloshin’s watercolors, and even placed the painter’s bearded character to his canvas. However, a pretty pompous Tutunov's "Voloshin in Koktebel" (1986) still has fairly relative similarity with transparent landscapes of Koktebel by Voloshin himself, one of which is also exhibited in SOVCOM.