The Russian Academy Of Arts

Organized to mark the 85th anniversary of Peter Ossovsky, the People’s Artist of the USSR, Winner of the USSR State Prize and M. Sholokhov International Prize, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honorary Citizen of the City of Pskov, the exhibition features a retrospective of paintings and drawings created by the artist for 70 years of his creative work.

The show includes the master’s canvases, portraits, landscapes, sketches and drawings, as well as series of  his works resulted from his trips to Cuba, Mexico, Poland,  Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria.  

Peter Ossovsky: “The historical space of time in the middle of the 1920s has revealed the world a generation which I am happy to belong to.  An important civic mission fell to its lot – together with the people of this country to defeat the enemy in the Great Patriotic War and to create the culture and art of the second half of the 20th century. People of the war generation, talented, honest and incorruptible, with a huge moral potential have surrounded me for my long life in art. This generation, called “men of the 1960s”, that breathed the ozone purified from the war burning has enriched the treasure house of spiritual values by masterpieces of literature, cinema, theater, music and fine arts and left the future generations examples of selfless service to Russia and its national culture.  We do justice to representatives of this generation who contributed to the continuity of traditions of Russian realism of our great teachers and handed down to us in their works its human sense and boundless love for our mother country and its people”.

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