In Moscow, posters with famous art canvases appeared at public transport stops and in the metro. If you point your smartphone camera at them, the picture “comes to life”, turning into three-dimensional. The head of the Moscow Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov spoke about the new project on the Telegram channel.
– We have dedicated 2021 in transport to art – by the end of the year, we will decorate several dozen stops and metro stations with “come to life” paintings by world famous artists who are exhibited in Moscow – in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum. Some of the paintings can already be found on the streets of the city and in the metro, – said the deputy mayor of Moscow for transport.
In the metropolitan subway, posters will be placed at stations of the Koltsevaya metro line, as well as inside it. In addition, canvases have already appeared at public transport stops. To make the picture “come to life”, you need to point your smartphone camera at a special QR code located in the corner of the poster. At the first stage, public transport stops will be decorated with posters with paintings by Aristarkh Lentulov and Henri Rousseau. At the end of October, passengers will be able to admire posters by other renowned artists.
Aristarkh Lentulov (1882 – 1943) – Russian artist, set designer, one of the founders of the Russian avant-garde, founder of the “Jack of Diamonds” association. In his paintings, Lentulov mixed different styles, experimented with light and shadow. He often used bright colors, for which critics called him “the artist of the Sun”.
Henri Rousseau (1844 – 1910) – French self-taught artist, one of the most famous representatives of naive art (primitivism). Without an artistic education, he painted amazing pictures, immortalizing both the landscapes of his native France and the exotic jungle (which, by the way, he had never seen with his own eyes). Several of his works are kept in Moscow. In particular, in the collection of the Pushkin Museum you can see his famous painting “View of the Sevres Bridge and the Clamart Hills”, which “comes to life” on one of the posters.
