The rough tongue of the poster

Meyerhold, Mayakovsky and Nikolai Erdman

Where we stopped - from there we start. In the lens-the art of the 1920s

“Ludi laugh and wrinkle the forehead in the Meyerhold theater on the clop comedy,” Mayakovsky wrote not only in “Growth Windows”, but also for performances for his plays in the legendary guests - the Meyerhold State Theater.

Today is a story about those who, as far as possible, helped the director live and work. These people did not deserve to forget about them.

Meyerhold, during the period of work in the province, forced to combine the classes of the actor, director and entrepreneur, apparently sympathized with people who could spin, moreover, needed them. Actor

The guests of the guests Alexei Tseerin was just such a person - he served as an actor in the living and at the same time worked as a photographer. The themein of Vakhtangov, Okhlopkov, Tairov, Popov acted, but he combined-and successfully-the skill of the actor and professional photographer only in the living.

Many consider the “Examiner” one of Meyerhold's best performances. So he became not without the help of Torin. Each version of the famous dumb scene in the final was photographed, and the prints were critically examined by the director and actors, which helped to notice and discard weak decisions.

The granddaughter of V.E. Meyerhold-Maria Alekseevna, the keeper of his apartment museum, a man of amazing clarity of mind and a firm spirit, knew the number of persons personally. According to her testimony, Alexei Alekseevich was an average actor and an amateur level by a photographer.

However, in my opinion, his photographs are not much inferior to the work of masters of modern theater photography and expose a person who has completely owning a lens and knows theatrical space as a native.

The extensive archive of glass negatives since the arrest of Meyerhold has been stored in the apartment of the famous historian of the theater P. A. Markov. (Temerin was married to his sister, Maria Alexandrovna.) After the lion's share of the extensive photo archive (most of the photos of the plays of the guests and Meyerhold himself were made by Temerin) was transferred to the museum. A. A. Bakhrushin, and a small part related to Vl. Mayakovsky, - to the Mayakovsky Museum. The latter stores a document entering the dispute with the competent opinion of Maria Alekseevna. In 1932, the editors of the Soviet Theater magazine issued Temerin a unique certificate (photographs in the magazines of those years were printed in many years, but the surname was not put): “Comrade Temerin as an actor and director is an artistic highly qualified photographer, satisfying the requirements of the magazine in a difficult field of special shooting of theatrical productions.” In the upper left corner of the certificate, editorial facsimile reports the editorial address with a touching addition: “Entrance through a bookstore” ...

The exhibition of Topierina had to close a long time. But the organizers are regarded by the independent announcements of all advertising publications, stubbornly continuing the exhibition in the register of the current ones. Therefore, the exhibition on the mezzanine (the metaphor of the sky) of the Mayakovsky Museum, embodied the poet’s dream about the “workshop of human resurrectings”, will work until the end of August. Next there will be an exhibition dedicated to Maria Denisova-Shchadenko-Mary from the poem "Cloud in Pants".

“Citizen, hurry to the“ bug ”demonstration! The cash desk has a tail, the theater has a crowd! But just did not be angry with the jokes of the insect, this is not about you, but about your friend ”...

Constructivism in the cinema was promoted by posterists. The exhibition in the Gallery "House of Nashchokin" is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Stanberg brothers, the most famous in the 20s of graphic artists. Stanbergs became the first magnitude stars thanks to their film units, which were created by more than 300. A large group of talented artists worked in the field of film advertising: Alexander Naumov, Anton Lavinsky, Mikhail Dlugach, Anatoly Belsky. But Stenbergs were a decoration of the workshop. Their posters were a real lighthouse in the ocean of film products, and thanks to the circulations became an integral part of city streets.

You can try to formulate the secret of their success: combining the ideas of constructivism with the traditions of a political poster, decorativeness, associative thinking, the use of cinema technology, the metaphorical value of color. But not everyone will succeed, having mixed the same ingredients, so artistically and accurately reflect the historical time and all that new that appeared in Soviet cinema.

Dzigi Vertov’s films (“Eleventh”, “Man with a movie camera”, “Sixth of the world”), “General” by Baster Keaton, “Intelligence” by David Griffith, “Who is whom?” Evgenia Petrov. Everything - with the "epigraphs" - the merit of the Stanbergs, whose skill of advertisers was the highest sample. They used all the means of art to stop even a rushing passerby.

The exhibition shows only 34 posters - this is all that the Museum of Cinema managed to find. Most of the sheets - in the RSL funds and in private collections, and, given the closure of Leninka for an indefinite period, the chance provided by the Gallery "House of Nashchokin" is unique.

But posters are only part of the heritage of the walls. Their forces were formed by the performances of the Chamber Theater of Alexander Tairov, the Meyerkholdov play “How Steel was tempered”, which never came out due to the closure of the guests, according to their sketches for solemn events, Red Square was decorated, they were the main artists of the Gorky Central Park, the Planetarium and the Dniesprostroy.

In 1933, George was in a car disaster, Vladimir was arrested in the 52nd, in the 53rd they were rehabilitated. The brother’s death was very affected by him, but he did not despair and continued to work with his son the wall, and Red Square formed in 1945 and 1947-1962. Their monogram signature-2NTRG2, has already contained an intrigue. The effect of two wallsbergs was akin to Kuleshov’s installation effect, according to which one plus one more than two. And this is true - each of them worked for two. Not everyone is given.