Аукцион Bidspirit | Shmeleva Inna.

Shmeleva Inna. - Vasilsursk. Houses on the hills.. 1962 85x61 cm. Cardboard, tempera. This is a tempera made in 1962 by Belyutin’s student and an active member of the “New Reality” group, known for the fact that the works of its members were subject to sharp criticism by Khrushchev at the exhibition in Manege on December 1, 1962. So this work was at that exhibition, which makes it also historical artifact. Shmeleva Inna 1929 – 2020 Inna Nikolaevna Shmeleva graduated from Moscow Pedagogical University. An artist, one of the oldest teachers of the art department of the Correspondence People's University of Arts, for more than half a century of teaching experience, Inna Nikolaevna has educated a great many students. I. N. Shmeleva has been a member of the “New Reality” association under the leadership of Eliya Belyutin since 1958, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1976. Participant in the “First Exhibition of Russian Abstractionists” (November 1962) and the infamous “First Exhibition of Russian Avant-Garde” in Manege (1962), which was “destroyed” by Nikita Khrushchev. An active participant in the Abramtsevo exhibitions “New Reality” (1964 - 1988), not permitted by the USSR government, as well as exhibitions of Russian abstract artists in 1989 - 1994 in London, Budapest, cities of Hungary, Warsaw, Kaliningrad, Moscow (Manege “New Reality”), New York , Annandale-on-Hudson, Boston, International Biennial of Easel Graphics in Kaliningrad, Frankfurt am Main, Polish Cultural Center (Moscow), at MSTU. Bauman (2002), Central Bank of Russia (2002), Cultural Foundation of the Russian Federation (2003). “For I. Shmeleva, it is not the external effects that are important, but the internal content. Excellent command of graphic and painting techniques, she unfolds complex compositional structures before the audience, visualizing images of the subconscious, revealing the internal relationships of objects and phenomena...” O. M. Naumenko. Works by I. N. Shmeleva are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, in museums and private collections in Russia, the USA, Hungary, Germany, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Canada, Lithuania