Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI) in Moscow

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art (abbreviation - IRRI) is an open from December 2011 museum complex. At the heart of the IRRI collection are paintings by Russian and Soviet masters of the 20th and 21st centuries - A.A. Plastova, S.V. Gerasimova, Yu.I. Pimenova, A.A. Deineki, V.E. Popkov, G.M. Korzheva, G.N. Gorelova, N.I. Andronova, N.F. Novikov, the brothers Sergei and Alexei Tkachev, Viktor Ivanov, who cover various historical stages of the development of Russian society.

General description of the museum

The basis of the first exposition and the museum fund as a whole is a private collection owned by Alexei Ananyev, a businessman, and containing many written in the realistic tradition of paintings. Its history began about 10 years ago. Today the collection of Ananiev includes several thousand works. Approximately 500 of them are presented in the first exhibition.

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art is located opposite the Novospassky Monastery, in Zamoskvorechye, in one of the old buildings of the printing factory. After the restoration and redevelopment of the walls of this building, built around the end of the 19th century, the museum premises, covering an area of 4,500 m², were equipped with advanced engineering communications, as well as special equipment designed to maintain the museum's special regime of storing various works of art. Today, the technical equipment of IRRI complies with all international standards.

Master classes and lectures

Exposition of works from the IRRI collection is available from December 2011 to a wide range of domestic and foreign visitors interested in the realistic school, its cultural tradition in Russia. There are master classes and lectures for the entire family every first Saturday of the month. There are group and individual excursion programs in English and Russian. Students of art schools, as well as pupils of various art lyceums have the opportunity to visit the museum for free on certain days (for more information about the time of this museum and exhibition complex see the very bottom of the article).

The address of the museum and the way

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art is located near the Paveletskaya metro station. From here you can get by buses 106, 13, 632 or 158, or the 13th minibus taxi from Paveletsky railway station to the stop called "First Sitzenbivnaya Fabrika", or take tram 38, 35 to the stop "Novospassky Bridge" and enter Side Derbenevskaya street in the "Novospassky Dvor" business center. From m. "Proletarskaya" can be reached by tram 38 or 35 to the stop "Novospassky Bridge". That is, there are several options for how to get to the Institute of Russian Realistic Art.

The address where IRRI is located is Derbenevskaya embankment, house 7, building 31.

This museum occupies all three floors of the premises. It is quite easy to find it - there is a brick tower nearby, which is a boiler house pipe, the building of which is occupied by the Institute of Russian Realistic Art. When you go to the museum among the red brick buildings of this former factory, it seems that you are in the late 19th century somewhere in England.

The halls of the museum are now filled with many paintings by famous artists: Sergei Gerasimov, Arkady Plastov, Alexander Deineka, Viktor Popkov, Vladimir Stozharov and others. In many works, the national character and the Russian spirit are felt.

Features of the museum

The interior and the building itself, starting from the wardrobe and the foyer and ending with the exhibition halls, show that the technical equipment of this museum is really at the highest level, IRRI (the Institute of Russian Realistic Art) is a solid gallery of the modern type.

And the quality and quantity of the collection of paintings by Russian and Soviet artists is inferior, perhaps, only to the Tretyakov Gallery. Alexei Ananyev, the organizer of it, caught the trend of the times, not yet very noticeable, easy, and made a bet, above all, on realistic Russian art. Avant-gardism in today's forms, in its pseudo-innovation and aesthetic adventurism, often leads to a dead end. The grain of novelty, of course, existed in this art, but it did not germinate. And realism gives a lot. Russian art of this direction tells about life, depicts its time: types of people, their faces, working moments, life, landscape, houses, etc. And it also requires the ability to draw, professional skills.

The best works

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art is a museum in which you will see, for example, a very catchy and masterfully executed portrait of the work of Alexander Osmerkin called "Ladies in a Black Beret" or the creation of Alexander Samokhvalov's "Portrait of a Pilot". The museum-exhibition complex gives an opportunity to look at the canvases of Vladimir Stozharov, the most famous of which are: Unzha, Muftyug, Big Water, Autumn: Cows graze. For example, the product of "Spinning" Arkady Plastov - it's just a fence, blue, snow ... But for some reason there is a desire to feel the fullness and warmth of an unassuming kolkhoz life, go for these spurs. The works of Viktor Popkov: "Under the Lilacs", "Rest", "The Evening Shadows" will not leave anyone indifferent either.

Soviet Artists

In Soviet times, various works written by famous masters were bought by the Ministry of Culture, as well as museums. You will not find in the exhibition, for example, such a work of pre-revolutionary time, as the painting "Seeing off" Heliya Korzhev, and the canvas Grabar "Chrysanthemum" purchased Tretyakov Gallery. But even less well-known paintings by masters of such a high level are of professional, museum and historical interest. The exposition of works is represented by such authors of the Soviet pictorial school as Gritsay, Zhilinsky, Salakhov, Ossovsky, Stozharov, Ivanov, Kugach, Nemensky, Sokolov-Skala, Osmyorkin, Romadin, Chuikov and many others. Their work shows a high professional level, which was the painting of the Soviet period.

Ideological works

Art is a part of ideology. The country lived a heroic, difficult life. This is reflected in the IRRI's exposition in due measure and legitimately. Gorelov's paintings "Flowers to Stalin" and "Farewell to Gorky" convey the life-feeling of the USSR at that time. This theme is developed by Denisovsky's work "Portrait of Marshal Budenny", Brodsky - "Spring Landscape" and "Academic Dacha" and others. Truly immensely this collection - we indicated only some pictures.

Small work

Of course, not only the most successful creations of famous authors are present. The signature of the famous artist still does not speak about the value or the artistic value of the work. Fortunately, such not very successful creations in the IRRI exhibition are few. Even small pictures, almost sketches, confirm the undoubted skill of the authors. For example, this is the work of the artist Reshetnikov, as well as the portrait of "Collective Farmer" Tsiplakova and "Novospassky Monastery" Dementiev. The last picture is the size of only 30 X 25 cm, here we mention Mikhail Vasilyevich Kupriyanov - his paintings "Moscow, Winter 1946" and "Moscow, 1947", a picturesque and unusually fresh "Portrait of the Artist" by Pimenov Yuri Ivanovich.

"Unfinished conversation" is a rare example of a significant experience transmitted in a still life. This work is now in the Tretyakov Gallery. The Institute of Russian Realistic Art in Moscow also gives us the opportunity to recall the work of this master of painting.

Artists of our time

Perfectly represented by many artists of our time. Very good from all points of view, the picture - "Before work., Guys" Korkoda Vladimir Nikolaevich. Fine works of landscape are presented by works of Mikhail Nikolaevich Izotov "On the banks of the Klyazma", "Winter Day in Vladimir", "Vladimir: View of the Assumption Cathedral". Not throwing, but very piercing picture - "Victory Day" Anton Vyacheslavovich Stekolshchikova.

The works of Vadim Vladimirovich Dementiev "Vorobyevsky Forest", "October. Andreevka", "Seltso" represent a sample of painting artists of the Moscow school. Let's also note the picture of Vladimir Viktorovich Yanaki "Widow", Yegor Nikolayevich Zaitsev "Christmas tree". In our country there are many talented artists, of which very little is known to a wide circle. These authors have great works. Great joy - when they finally reach the audience. The brilliant works of the artist Pirosmani are known to a wide circle. But even in Russian villages, in these rickety huts, we can see unpretentious, painted paints on plywood, but very touching masterpieces, which are often not inferior to them. Unfortunately, they are not known about them, but meanwhile they contain the spiritual wealth of the Russian peasant. Similarly, a number of little-known realist artists have works that have not been seen by many. In IRRI you will find some of them. The general impression of this exposition is a feeling of hard and great work done, very necessary and useful.

The mode of work and the cost of tickets

The museum runs from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11 to 20 hours. On Thursday, the schedule is slightly shifted - from 12 to 21. Half an hour before the museum closes, the ticket offices are closed. Monday is a day off.

The cost of tickets is 150 rubles for adults, 50 rubles for students and students. Free admission is the last Saturday and the first Tuesday of each month.