The Irkutsk Art Museum invites you to a themed tour, The Child Image in Russian Art, on September 3 as part of Cultural Thursdays. Guests will learn about childhood in Russian painting and how artists showed a childs social status and when childhood sounded especially sincere in art. Key works include Alexander I as a child by Fyodor Rokotov, Girl with a Spitz by Nikolai Kuznetsov, and The Beggar Girl by Ilya Repin.
The Art Museum invites residents of Irkutsk and visitors to the city to a themed tour, “The Child Image in Russian Art.” The event will take place on September 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the main building of the Art Museum (5 Lenin St.).In the collection of paintings on display, visitors will become acquainted with the theme of childhood in Russian painting.
Tour participants will be told what role the social status of the depicted child played for the artist.
Residents of Irkutsk will learn from what time “childhood” in works of art began to sound with particular immediacy and sincerity.
Special attention will be paid to Fyodor Rokotov’s portrait of Alexander I as a child, Nikolai Kuznetsov’s “Girl with a Spitz,” Ilya Repin’s “The Beggar Girl,” and others.
The tour is free of charge, as it is held as part of the “Cultural Thursdays” project.
As the museum’s press service reports, to attend it, it is enough to purchase an admission ticket costing from 10 to 100 rubles.
As a reminder, the V.P. Sukachev Regional Art Museum has been open on Thursdays from May through September from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
A variety of exhibitions, interesting lectures and tours, as well as walks through the estate park, are now available in the evenings as well.