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January 26 to April 18

Royal Academy of Arts

London

The Impressionists have really made history. Their names are pronounced with admiration of art even by those who do not intend to, but that he was dazzled by the gold of the sunflowers and the tenuous fragility of lilies.

influences that this revolutionary movement has generated not only in France but in the rest of the world and in this particular case in Russia, it is really about Russia poco.Della turn of the century is reminiscent of the February Revolution and then the d 'in October, the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, events so formidable as to leave little room for cultural change. But in Russia from the late nineteenth-early Nine were many who look to the West and the new artistic movements, both eyes of collectors, that of painters.

The first hints of renewal came even earlier, in the sixties of the nineteenth century, when a group of artists in St. Petersburg decided to emancipate the Imperial Academy of Arts, founded the company then known as The Wanderers. They rejected the biblical and mythological subjects from art to introduce Italian rather than scenes of daily life and snapshots of their contemporary Russian society, such as Ilya Repin, who painted October 17, 1905 and Leo Tolstoy barefoot .

Thirty years later the Muscovite Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozowa formed, in fifteen years, two of the largest collections of French art. In particular, so Shchukin became Matisse's patron, which he bought and which commissioned many works on large canvases, as Dance . Since 1909 these two museums were open to the public and private Russian artists who had no opportunity to form in the spirit of Paris could still know the works of French artists through these collections.

This show is simply wonderful. And do not rule out returning to see her again soon. I consider it unique because it collects a espoizione authors and works geographically distant, belonging to different historical past, each of them approached by the witness of a particular current, never cancel but rather putting them in a culturally refined design. Gauguin, Matisse, Chagall, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Corot, Repin, Mashkov, Altman, Golovin, are all here.

Not to miss: Ida Rubinstein, the famous Russian ballerina who had shared the stage with the company Ballets Russes Diaghilev, portrayed here by Valentin Serov in a bare-shouldered. The face shot for three quarters, the lithe body and edgy at the same time. The look intense and focused as if it were a scene.

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CAMDEN TOWN GROUP
13 Febbraio - 5 Maggio
Tate Britain
London

Il Camden Town Group nacque nel 1911 e si sviluppò in un momento intenso della storia inglese. Il nuovo secolo portò un'ondata di cambiamenti: a livello sociale con le incontenibili suffragette che richiedevano a gran voce il diritto di voto e la parità dei sessi; nel tessuto urbano con la modernizzazione dei trasporti che, nel giro di pochi anni, cambiò il volto di Londra. Carrozze e trasporti pubblici tirati horse disappeared rapidly (in 1914 there were only 1200 coconuts across London) first to give way to buses, cars and a symbol of the British capital, the subway.

The artists of the Camden Town Group and stood as witnesses to these changes and made the London theater of their paintings. The bright colors of a city 'on the move ( Piccadilly Circus, Charles Ginner, 1912), the dense and compact strokes closely recalls the influence of French post-impressionism. Van Gogh and the colors in the stretch, in the colors of the palette of Gauguin, Degas in the choice of unusual shots, evident in Gauguins and Connoisseurs at the Stattford Gallery Spencer Gore or The Naked and the Nude Walter Richard Sickert. In this painting from 1910, 'portrayed a young woman we see the naked body bent, as if it were committed in private as an everyday activity, but not the face. The cut chosen, the person who appears through a door left open as if by chance, give the viewer a strong sense of voyeurism.

This shows I enjoyed, but not passionate. If the resumption of post-impressionist style initially intrigued me, has come early to get tired. It seemed to me that their was a way to paint, but without adding nothing personal point of view of style. A little 'as if it were disguised as French English.

changing perspective, however, the works of the Camden Town Group instead become very interesting when you look at them as witnesses of an era. The views of London immortalized in their paintings show a different city so as to tighten the heart and return to a past that thought, though so far, is just around the corner.

Not to miss: In the Cinema Malcolm Drummond and the faces of Londoners in the dark, concentrated on the film.

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