Volgodonsk Art Museum

Volgodonsk Art Museum - Museum of Fine Arts in Volgodonsk is an art museum, located in Volgodonsk, Russia .

Its collection includes the collected works of Volgodonsk artists, contemporaries of the All-Union Komsomol building - the Atommash plant, a gallery of portraits of the Volgodonians - veterans of the Great Patriotic War and war workers. Paintings are mostly done with modern techniques and on traditional materials. For a more complete reflection of contemporary art, the collection includes works by little-known young artists. The museum regularly hosts exhibitions of works by pupils of Volgodonsk secondary schools. The main collection of the museum has 5000 items in display, and in storage there is still slightly less than 8000 items. In addition to painting in the museum exhibited items dating from the 20th and 21st centuries, which include graphics, sculpture, arts and crafts.. The exhibition and exhibition halls have an area of 534 square meters.

History

The museum has been open since May 1995, when the municipal cultural institution "City Exhibition Hall" opened in Volgodonsk. This event was timed to the celebration of Victory Day. In 2000, the exhibition hall was transformed into a municipal institution "City Art Gallery" (Museum of Modern Art). During the period from 2000 to March 2003, 317 exhibits were shown. These were donations of artists, masters of applied art of the city - Vasily Ostapuk, Yuri Padalka, Georgiy Likhavid, Valery Okarsky, Egor Derdiashchenko and other artists.

In April 2003, by the decree of the governor of the Rostov region, the picture gallery was transformed into the State Regional Cultural Institution "Volgodonsk Art Museum".^[1] Since 2003, the collection of the museum's art was organized on a scientific basis, funds for acquisitions have been allocated, both on the basis of estimates and the regional program "Culture of the Don". Since that time, the museum's funds are replenished with objects of painting, sculpture, objects of applied art of the Don artists, masters of applied art. During the period from 2003 to 2008, the museum's main fund received 2782 items of museum storage, the museum's collection (main fund) amounted to 3,189 exhibits. Auxiliary fund - 3150 units of storage. Cooperation with the Rostov branch of the Union of Artists of Russia and approval of the expert fund-procurement commission of the museum in 2004, which includes both museum staff and members of the Union of Artists of Russia contributed to the replenishment of the museum's collection with highly artistic items.^[2] The museum is the youngest museum institution on the Don. This is the fourth in the Rostov region of the Museum of Fine Arts after Taganrog, as well as Rostov and Salsk.^[3]

Collections

The collection of paintings includes 548 paintings, 335 graphic works, as well as watercolors, paintings on art cardboard, wood-fiber board, framed and in glass, in the frames and under glass, as in the case of passepartout, glass, and graphic sheets. sheets - 82 items of storage. All items of this collection have a dating of the 20th, and 21st centuries, that is, objects of contemporary art, which corresponds to the focus of the museum's subjects as a museum of contemporary art. The authors of the collection are contemporary artists from Volgodonsk and other regions of the Rostov Region, mostly members of the Union of Artists of Russia. (George Likhovid, Vasily Ostapuk, Yuri Padalka, Alexei Khizhkin). The collection contains almost all genres and trends in contemporary painting.

The sculpture is represented by the works of Yegor Derdiashchenko and Vasily Polyakov, the artists of many monuments and sculptural compositions adorning the streets of the city. Of the objects of applied art exhibited in the museum are banners, embroideries, tapestries, breastplates. The murals are represented in the collection by series or events. Historical and artistic interest is represented by a series of murals dedicated to the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[4]

References

External links

https://dontourism.ru/en/ShowplaceView.aspx?id=490

http://www.voxxter.com/eng/exposition/1425

Coordinates: 47°30′38″N 42°09′48″E / 47.5105°N 42.1634°E / 47.5105; 42.1634