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February 25 - April 20, 2001. Exhibition "Portraits of Soviet commanders".

The exhibition features 20 works of different genres and techniques. The halls of our gallery accommodate around half a century of Soviet portrait art.

The portrait genre plays a special role in the visual art of the war period. The best Soviet artists created an exceptionally expressive collection of images of famous military commanders, officers and common soldiers, partisans and homefront workers. The faces of the people depicted on the canvases, created by P. Kotov, V. Yakovlev, V. Ivanov and many others, there is no pompousness, only rigorous confidence in victory. The center of the display is undoubtedly the three monumental portraits by the Soviet academic Vasilii Yakovlev. During the Great Patriotic War, the artist painted a series of ceremonial portraits of outstanding Soviet military commanders for which he was honored with the Stalin Award. Portraits of Marshals G.K. Zhukov, L.A. Govorov, A.I. Egorov painted in 1943-1946.

Some very interesting works were presented by our contemporaries, academic V.I. Ivanov (“Portrait of General Batov”) and B.V. Okorokov who introduced his genre works that apparently were the predecessors of his two famous works, “Interceptors” and “Frontier guards”.

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