From April 26th to May 18th at the Visual Materials Reading Room (room 307) is open a book-illustrative exhibition “Long live the great feat! Long live the heroes!: The Great Patriotic War in fine art” dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory.
Now, six decades separate us from the historical day when on May 8th, 1945 representatives of the German High Command had signed the act of unconditional surrender of Hitlerite Germany. However, time has no power over human memory.
Since then, Soviet masters of fine arts have often turned to military-patriotic themes in their creative work. The courage of Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War is an imperishable theme for art, that is why artists address to it so often. Their works show us a whole gallery of common and humane faces. There are private soldiers of the great army named the Courage. They are embodied in the paintings of Y. Neprintsev “The Native Land” and “In Memory of the perished”, A. Deyneko “Sevastopol Defense”, I. Akhremchik “Defenders of the Brest Fortress”, G. Vaschenko “The Break-Through”, M. Savitsky “Golgotha” and many others.
Soviet and contemporary masters have created hundreds of paintings, sculptures, posters and drawings dedicated to the heroic epopee of the Great Patriotic War which is the most severe and sanguinary war in the history. This is but a modest tribute to those who freed the world from Fascist aggression.
The exhibition presents about 100 documents: albums, books, postcards, reproductions of works by Belarusian and Russian artists, and also a set of materials from periodicals.
The exposition is designed for everyone who is interested in the history of Belarusian and Soviet military art.
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