From May 25 to August 22, in the Fine Arts Reading Room (room 306), a book-illustrative exhibition “Along the streets of Paris” is being held.
Paris has long been considered the world's art treasury. Artists of all times and peoples drew inspiration here, presenting the city with masterpieces in gratitude for its beauty. And each artist created his own, new Paris. Claude Monet captured the city as sunny and noisy, Auguste Renoir, cheerful and frivolous. There is the nervous, bitter Paris of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the rainy Paris of Camille Pissarro. The exhibition features albums and selected reproductions of works by these and other artists. A special place is given to the work of Maurice Utrillo, who created a unique world of landscape images of the city. Its Parisian streets are endowed with a bittersweet charm in simple poetry and idyll.
"Paris, you are my second Vitebsk!", said Marc Chagall. He dedicated the city, with which he became related for life, his declaration of love, a series of lithographs, some of the reproductions of which are shown in the exhibition. Meadows bloom in Chagall's Paris, lovers fly across the sky, and the Eiffel Tower looks like a child's toy from the height of their flight.
During the years of his residence in France, evening Paris was the favorite "hero" of the paintings of the Russian artist Konstantin Korovin. Looking at these works, you feel how fascinating is the miracle of wet asphalt, woven from grains of sand, which has absorbed the colors of buildings, trees, sky, the glow of lanterns and shop windows, people and machines.
The exhibition is complemented by many photo albums and postcards dedicated to the history and art of Paris. Albums with its masterpieces of architecture and famous landmarks will allow you to plunge into the festive atmosphere of the capital of France, as well as explore the art collections of the world's greatest museums, such as the Louvre and D'Orsay.
The opening hours of the exhibition correspond to the opening hours of the library.
Entrance with a library card or a ticket for a socio-cultural center.
For more info: (+375 17) 293 27 53.
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