Hermitage Group Of Russian Artists To Visit, Lecture At Colorado State University
Wednesday, September 24, 1997
FORT COLLINS--Four members of a group of artists from St.
Petersburg, Russia, known as the Hermitage Group will visit
Colorado State University Oct. 6-8 to meet with art students,
lecture to history and political science classes and present a
public lecture and slide show.
The public presentation, "Paintings from the Russian Soul:
Art and Life in the Former Soviet Union," will be 7-8:30 p.m.
Oct. 8 in Room A103 Clark Building. The presentation is free and
open to the public.
The four artists - Albert Bakun, Sergei Daniel, Vladimir
Obatnin and Mark Tumin - represent the Hermitage Group, founded
in 1969. The group is an informal association of eight painters
whose works only recently are being exhibited outside Russia.
Because the former Soviet regime denied painters permission
to show or sell their works publicly, the group's painters became
underground artists who took refuge among the Old Masters of the
Hermitage, St. Petersburg's famous art museum. Even when Soviet
society became more open under Mikhail Gorbachev and the glasnost
era, the Hermitage Group remained underground.
The group specializes in still life, figures, portraits and
landscapes inspired by the Old Masters but painted in individual,
dynamic styles.
While in Northern Colorado, the four artists will offer
workshops to art classes in Loveland public schools and the
Loveland Museum/Gallery, where they also will present a free
public lecture, "The History of Russian Icons," at 7 p.m. Oct. 2.
For more information about the Loveland event, call (970)
962-2410.
The artists' visit to campus is sponsored by the
university's Russian, Eastern and Central European Studies
Program, the College of Liberal Arts, the guest scholars
committee of the Graduate School and the departments of art,
history and political science.
Further information is available from Ken Rock in the
history department, (970) 491-6084, or David Yust in the art
department, (970) 491-5478.
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