Art belongs to the people. Anniversary Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1977) (), dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Great October Revolution of 1917, became one of the most significant art event of 1977 in the USSR. The Exhibition took place in the new exhibition space - The Central Exhibition Hall Maneze, which has become the largest exhibition area of the city.
History and Organization
The Anniversary Exhibition was opened at November 5, 1977, under the motto "Art belongs to the people". Organization and preparation of Exhibition engaged specially formed Exhibition Committee under the chairmanship of Boris Ugarov, which consisted of 43 the most authoritative art-experts. It was published Catalog of Exhibition. In total the Exhibition displayed 1,400 works of art of painters, sculptors, graphics, masters of arts and crafts, artists of theater and cinema and attended by over 750 artists of Leningrad.
Contributing Artists
In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited art works of 243 authors. There were Evgenia Antipova, Taisia Afonina, Vladislav Anisovich, Leonid Baykov, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Leonid Baykov, Evgenia Baykova, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Yuri Belov, Piotr Belousov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Lev Bogomolets, Veniamin Borisov, Nikolai Brandt, Dmitry Buchkin, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Ivan Godlevsky, Vasily Golubev, Abram Grushko, Irina Dobrekova, Oleg Eremeev, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, Maya Kopitseva, Victor Korovin, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Mikhail Kozell, Engels Kozlov, Marina Kozlovskaya, Vladimir Krantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Yuri Mezhirov, Evsey Moiseenko, Andrei Mylnikov, Vera Nazina, Mikhail Natarevich, Yuri Neprintsev, Samuil Nevelshtein, Yaroslav Nikolaev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Victor Oreshnikov, Sergei Osipov, Lia Ostrova, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Yuri Pavlov, Varlen Pen, Nikolai Pozdneev, Alexander Pushnin, Valentina Rakhina, Semion Rotnitsky, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Vladimir Sakson, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Elena Skuin, Kim Slavin, Alexander Shmidt, Alexander Sokolov, Alexander Stolbov, Alexander Tatarenko, German Tatarinov, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Yuri Tulin, Vitaly Tulenev, Vitaly Tulenev, Boris Ugarov, Igor Veselkin, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Valery Vatenin, Lazar Yazgur, German Yegoshin, Vecheslav Zagonek, Sergei Zakharov, Ruben Zakharian, Elena Zhukova, and others most prominent painters of the Leningrad School.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 153 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 207 artists.
Contributed Artworks
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in years of 1976-1977, also some earlier works. All of them were exhibited at first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of leading Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors. The retrospective section of the exhibition was presented by works of famous masters from Art Museums and private collections. Among them were art works of Isaak Brodsky, Joseph Serebriany, Boris Kustodiev, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Rudolf Frentz and others.
Genre and Historical painting were presented of "Entrance in the Leningrad Sea Port" by Lev Bogomolets, "The Beginning of Summer" by Dmitry Buchkin, "In the old far village" by Nikolai Galakhov, "Plane arrived" by Abram Grushko, "Bonfires of October" by Oleg Eremeev, "May 9 in Zaonezhie" by Alexei Eriomin, "On the shore of Samatlor Lake" by Yuri Khukhrov, "October, 1917" by Boris Lavrenko, "The new Constitution" by Yuri Mezhirov, "Concert", "Grenada", "On the river" by Evsey Moiseenko, "Federico García Lorca" by Andrei Mylnikov, "Evening", "Saturday", "Close to the old Apple Tree" by Mikhail Natarevich, "Sunday morning" by Lia Ostrova, "In a watch factory" by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, "Evening in the Gorushky village" by Yuri Pavlov, "Weather Station" by Nikolai Pozdneev, "Interior. In the Art Studio" by Valentina Rakhina, "Siberian trailblazers" by Ivan Savenko, "Helicopter arrived" by Yuri Shablikin, "Relaxation. Haymaking time" by Alexander Stolbov, "Petrograd City in 1917" by Alexander Tatarenko, "Talking with Lenin" by Vitaly Tulenev, "Meeting of Leningraders with guerrillas" by Yuri Tulin, "Soldiers of the Revolution" by Boris Ugarov, and some others.