CULTURAL EVENT
IN THE CAPITAL - GUESTS FROM THE REGION
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The National Art Museum of Belarus hosts an exhibition “Artists of the Molodechno Region”
he basis of this exposition is made up of exhibits from the collection of the Minsk regional local history museum. In total, the exhibition presents more than 60 paintings and graphic works of artists whose life and work are associated with the city of Molodechno. The exhibition itself is dedicated to the Year of the Small Motherland. It must be said that the Molodechno region, rich in cultural traditions, occupies a prominent place in the history of the Belarusian fine arts of the 20–21 centuries. The Molodechno artistic community deserved attention to itself. The current exhibition at the National Art Museum of Belarus partially fulfills this role. The exposition presents the work of different generations of artists. All of them are not only talented masters, but also bright individuals who have found their own creative path. The genre range of the exhibition is also very wide: landscape, portrait, historical and everyday genres, book illustration. The older generation of Molodechno artists is represented in Minsk by the works of J. Rozdzyalovskaya and M. Axelrod. Yadwiga Rozdzyalovskaya (1902–1992) was a pupil of the art schools of Lublin and Warsaw, an honored cultural worker of Poland, at one time — the organizer and head of the fine arts studio in Molodechno. At the exhibition she is presented as a delicate and tact-
ful portrait painter. Meer Axelrod (1902–1970) was a graduate of the Moscow Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops, a student of V. Favorsky, P. Pavlinov, S. Gerasimov, K. Istomin. The next generation of artists is represented by the works of K. Khoroshevich and L. Dudarenko. Konstantin Khoroshevich (1927–2013) is a graduate of the Minsk Art School, a student of famous Belarusian artists Konstantin Kosmachev and Algerd Malishevsky, a bright, original landscape painter. Leonid Dudarenko is an honored art worker of Belarus, laureate of the prize “For Spiritual Revival”, a painter of a wide genre range, a master of portrait, landscape and still life paintings. The third generation of Molodechno artists is represented at the exhibition by Alexander Pashkevich, Yuri GerasimenkoZhiznevsky (1948–1997), Nikolai Ovchinnikov, Vasily Lazovsky (1953–2015), Alexander Grishkevich, Sergei Pisarenko. It should be mentioned that in recent years the National Art Museum of Belarus has held several personal exhibitions of Molodechno masters (L. Dudarenko, N. Ovchinnikov, Y. GerasimenkoZhiznevsky). Now, for the first time, visitors to the museum have the opportunity to comprehensively acquaint themselves with the work of artists of this region. By Veniamin Mikheev. Photo by Author.
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