Mir iskusstva
I Iskusstwa (Russian Мир искусства; German: The Art World ) was an exhibition association of artists end of the 19th century in Russia and the name of a magazine that was published from 1899 to 1904 by the members of the Association under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev. As an artistic movement I Iskusstwa influenced the cultural life of Russia in the first decade of the 20th century.
History
As a precursor of the Severny Vestnik I Iskusstwa applies. Founders were the artist Alexander Benois and theater artist Sergei Diaghilev. Its members soon met the artist Léon Bakst, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Yevgeny Lansere, Anna Lebedeva and Konstantin Somov - Ostroumova.
Closely associated with the magazine were Ivan Bilibin, Alexander Golovin, Igor Grabar, Konstantin Korovin, Boris Kustodiev, Nicholas Roerich, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Isaac Levitan and Mikhail Nesterov.
Project
The aim of the association was to take up art standards of the obsolete school of Peredvizhniki, while promoting the artistic peculiarities and principles of Art Nouveau. As the representative of romanticism of the time, the members of Mir Iskusstwa for the understanding and preservation of past epochs of art translated one, especially the traditional folklore and 18th century art.
The targeting of the past projects were often persecuted a humorous and parodic sense. Medial use was made of lights, airy effects in watercolor and gouache in conjunction with life-sized oil paintings. To increase the effectiveness of public, household items and books were designed. Bakst and Benois revolutionized the theater props with their designs of Cleopatra (1909 ), Carnival (1910 ), Petrushka (1910) and L' après -midi d'un faune (1912 ) by Claude Debussy.
Work
The heyday of the Association covered the period from 1900 to 1904 - in this time was a consensus on the unity of aesthetic and ideological principles. The artists held 1899-1903 annual exhibitions, which they also designed new organizational forms and operated journalistically. Because I Iskusstwa presented young talented artists who won both the association and the journal a great influence on the development of professionalism Russian painter and graphic artist at the beginning of the 20th century.
After 1904, enlarged the union and lost their ideological unity. In the period 1904-1910 the majority of the members of the Movement of the Mir Iskusstwa the Association of Russian artists joined. Since 1909, many wore the Miriskusniki how the members of the movement were called to the spread of the Ballets Russes and their gas- animal border in Paris ensembles at. After the October Revolution the group to a last exhibition in 1924 was, however, without appreciable effect; the attempt to renew with an exhibition in Paris in 1927 was unsuccessful.
The " International Painting Exhibition "
Before the international exhibition of the journal Mir iskusstwa in 1899 came about Sergei Diaghilev had traveled for several months Europe. He visited private collections and artists' studios, bought pictures and mediated the buying in private collections of Russia. The transport of the greater part of the works to St. Petersburg allowed the patrons of the arts Duchess Maria Savva Tenisheva and Momontow, financed in equal parts from 1898 I Iskusstwa.
The exhibition was opened in the premises of the private museum, the later " Stieglitz Museum of Applied Art " in Saint Petersburg, Baron Alexander von Stieglitz on January 22, 1899. In the exhibition catalog, which was also the second issue of the journal Mir iskusstwa, 61 artists and 322 paintings and drawings were performed. Shown were among other paintings by James McNeill Whistler, the French Albert Besnard, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Gustave Moreau and Puvis de Chavannes. From Germany, the exhibition of paintings by Franz Lenbachplatz and Max Liebermann. Switzerland was represented by Arnold Böcklin, Italy by Giovanni Boldini, Belgium by Leon and Finland Akseli Gallen-Kallela. From the Russian art you showed works by Léon Bakst, Alexander Benois, Konstantin Somov and Apollinarij Vasnetsov, Alexander Golovin, and Jelena Polenova.