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Exhibition "Panorama of Domestic Naive Art"

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02.01.2026 · 10:00 · UTC+3
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Moscow
Музей русского лубка и наивного искусства
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Naive art in Russia is a living, touching language spoken by cities, people, and fairy-tale plots. The exhibition offers a look at familiar reality through the eyes of self-taught artists, for whom sincerity is more important than academic rules, and every detail holds a personal story. Naive art is often called the most honest because there are almost no protective screens between the artist and the viewer. There are no complex concepts or calculated strategies; there is a direct conversation about childhood, memory, homes, roads, and people who continue to live in the imagination. This intonation is especially palpable when works from different generations of authors meet in one space. The exhibition is structured as a journey through time. Early images related to the origins of domestic naive art and the figure of Niko Pirosmani coexist with works by artists who created in the second half of the 20th century and continue to create today. Instead of a dry chronicle, a narrative unfolds before the viewer about how plots changed, which themes returned again and again, and how the naive style responded to the events of the era. A significant block of the exhibition is dedicated to the "golden age" of Russian naive art - the 1960s to 1980s. It was then that amateur creativity was recognized as an important part of the cultural landscape. Exhibitions were held, critics wrote about self-taught artists, and their works entered the collections of museums and private collections. Today, these canvases read like a chronicle of everyday life: festive tables, village fairs, city streets, and scenes where reality easily coexists with fantasy. The layer of works from recent decades is also noticeable. Many authors continue the tradition of their predecessors but find their own gesture: they work more boldly with color, use unusual materials, and reinterpret familiar landscapes. Embroidery turns into a panel, wooden figures gain character, and small paintings become windows into the artist's personal myth. If you don't know where to stroll in Moscow, visit KudaGo.

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