The Russian Academy Of Arts

Organized to mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Artist of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, sculptor and master of medallic art Gennady Pravotorov, the retrospective at the Russian Academy of Arts features medals, plaquettes and drawings created by the artist from the early 1970s till 2011.

The range of his themes includes history and these days, culture and ecology, space as the universe, harmony between a man and nature. Gennady Pravotorov was born in 1941. In 1968 he graduated from S. Stroganov Moscow University of Industrial and Applied Arts. Among his works of the 1980s devoted to the topic of Russian history are reliefs in wood “Andrey Rublev”, “The Prothetic Bard”, The First Printer Ivan Fedorov, “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and his “For the Russian Land” plaquette executed in a very complicated technique.

His debut as a medallic artist was in 1975 at the Second Exhibition of Medallic Art where the artist’s works were honored with a diploma. Gennady Pravotorov has continued the theme of spiritual succession in a series of his medals and plaquetttes “The History of the Russian State” commemorating outstanding people who benefited to the glory of Russia, these are images of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Daniel the Prisoner, scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoevsky and others.

In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts Gennady Pravotorov produced a series of commemorative medals “Presidents of the Russian Academy of Arts”.

He is an author of ten memorial plaques, one of them is dedicated to the stay of the Tsar’s family in Tobolsk. The memorial plaque on the Church of the Great Ascention at Nikitsky Gates in Moscow commemorates the 170th anniversary of the church wedding ceremony of Alexander Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova.

Among his sculptural works are reliefs on the bells of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Church of Great Ascension in Moscow, the Assumption Cathedral in Tobolsk.

The artist’s recent works include a series of plaquettes “Patriarchs of Moscow and All Russia” and a series of commemorative medals “Glorious is the City of Tobolsk”, “The First Unit of Spacemen”, “Poets of the Silver Age”.

Gennady Pravotorov’s works are distinguished by an original manner and technique, they have been highly appreciated both in Russia and other countries. The artist is a holder of the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for his series of 20 medals entitled “The Romanov Dynasty” and a laureate of “The Revival of Medal” International Competition for the “Lyricism and Poetry in Medallic Art”.

On display are also Gennady Pravotorov’s drawings – his “travel notes” depicting the architecture and nature of Moscow, Russia and the countries where the artist lived and worked – Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Macedonia.

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