Presentation of the Wall Paintings Executed by the People’s Artist of the USSR Peter Ossovsky in the Interior of the Izborsk Chamber in Honor of the 1150th Anniversary of the Town of Izborsk

The exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts presents 17 originals of wall paintings and cartoons produced by the People’s Artist of the USSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Laureate of the USSR State Prize Peter Ossovsky for the interior of the Izborsk Chamber in honor of the 1150th anniversary of the town of Izborsk to be celebrated in the fall of 2012.

Izborsk is a town-fortress, one of the oldest Russian towns that defended the Russian borders from numerous invasions from the West. It has won the glory of the stronghold of the Pskov and Novgorod lands.

Peter Ossovsky has devoted all his creative life to one theme – Russian people and land, which he discovered for himself in the Pskov province: these are Pskov Kremlin, its Cathedrals and monasteries, remarkable nature and people.

As the artist put it, his paintings for the Izborsk Chamber are dedicated to the Russian language and literature, as well as Russian Orthodoxy. The cartoons portray figures of two outstanding people in Russian history and culture, whose life and work were connected with Pskov and Izborsk – the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and St. Equal to the Apostle Grand Duchess Olga who brought Christianity to the historical land. Peter Ossovsky’s canvas “Vision and Reality of Grand Duchess Olga” figuratively interprets the annalistic legend about three beams in the sky seen by Olga over Dovmontov steep slope.

Of major interest are the artist’s paintings “Road to the Church”, “Prayer for Russia”, “Ringing of Church Bells”, “Alarm”, polyptych “Symphony of Sunsets” devoted to the colors of the Pskov icon painting.




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