Eliy Belyutin and the Abramtsevo Brotherhood (1992)

Paintings by Eliy Belyutin, written in the style of abstract expressionism, on the walls of the exhibition hall.

Paintings standing by the wall (panorama).

Transporting one of the exhibits through the hall (top).

Preparing the exhibition hall in the Manege for the opening, placing paintings by artists representing the nonconformist movement, a story about the exhibition and its participants is heard behind the scenes. E. Belyutin takes part in dismantling one of the paintings and rolling it onto a shaft after the end of the exhibition.

Exhibition hall employees carry the removed paintings.

Packing the paintings removed from the walls. E. Bilyutin talks about the exhibition organized by the participants of the studio in the Manege in 1990, about the perception of the works of the participating artists representing the nonconformist movement in Russian painting by visitors to the exhibition, talks about the future of the exhibition and sending the paintings to the USA (synchronously and behind the scenes).

View of part of Arbat, street trading (top).

Eliy Belyutin walks along Arbat among passers-by.

The face of a street accordionist.

Panorama of a souvenir stall.

Card players on Arbat.

A souvenir seller, sitting at a stall, reads a magazine.

Young people sitting on a bench.

People on Arbat near souvenir and clothing stalls.

Belyutin walks along Arbat past stalls with souvenirs.

Belyutin passes through a courtyard, enters an entrance, a panorama of the walls of the house (from bottom to top).

Belyutin goes up a dark staircase.

Belyutin enters the hallway, turns on the light, a panorama of the hallway interior.

A bust and an antique clock in Belyutin's apartment.

Belyutin, holding a cat in his arms, enters the room, talks about the paintings hanging on the walls and their authors (synchronously and off-screen), the paintings on the walls, the interiors of Belyutin's apartment, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci's student Bernardino de Conti.

Belyutin sits down in an armchair by an open window, lets the cat go.

Belyutin talks about the problem of people's attitudes towards artists who are engaged in new art, about the philistine hatred surrounding the artist (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Faces of visitors to the exhibition listening to music performed by the Symphony Chamber Orchestra of the Association of Contemporary Music under the Union of Composers during a performance in Abramtsevo, Belyutin among the audience, the conductor directs the orchestra (panorama).

Paintings by artists of the New Reality studio, created by Belyutin, leaning against tree trunks in the Abramtsevo museum-estate, a spotlight illuminates two paintings (panorama).

Participants of the meeting at the house in Abramtsevo, paintings leaning against tree trunks. E. Belyutin talking to artists and guests.

Scenes from the operas Madalena and Mavra performed by soloists of the Helikon Opera, faces of the audience.

Paintings by artists of the New Reality studio at the exhibition in the Manege, Belyutin talking to one of the guests standing by the painting (panorama).

Newsreel from 1962: Khrushchev N.S., Suslov M.A. and their companions during a visit to the exhibition in the Manege on December 1, 1962. Paintings by Soviet artists, written in the style of socialist realism and presented at the exhibition.

Khrushchev examines paintings by Falk and Nikonov in the Manege, Khrushchev's face.

Khrushchev and Suslov at the exhibited paintings.

Khrushchev argues with one of the artists, the USSR Minister of Culture E.A. Furtseva is standing nearby.

Visitors to the exhibition at the paintings of formalist artists.

Photographs of Khrushchev during his visit to the exhibition in the Manege, Belyutin talks about the 1962 exhibition in the Manege, about Khrushchev's reaction to the works of some artists, together with the artists of the "New Reality" studio he recalls the reasons for Khrushchev's negative reaction (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photograph of Khrushchev during his visit to the exhibition.

Painting by artist Gribkov "Portrait of Father".

Paintings by artists of the "New Reality" studio.

Newsreel: demonstration of paintings by abstract artists in the hall during the meeting of Khrushchev N.S. with the intelligentsia on December 17, 1962. Fragments of paintings.

Sholokhov M.A., Tvardovsky A.T. in the hall among the meeting participants.

Belyutin passes under the arches, goes through the courtyard of the house, views of the walls of the house.

Newsreel from 1941: transportation of barrage balloons along Gorky Street in the fall of 1941. A rifle unit of the Red Army moves along the embankment of the Moskva River.

Faces of Red Army soldiers marching in formation.

Panorama of a barricade and anti-tank obstacles on one of the streets of Moscow.

Units of the Red Army and the people's militia move along the streets of Moscow to the front in November-December 1941. Posters on the walls of houses, the newsreel alternates with Belyutin's front-line sketches.

Anti-tank obstacles on the front line. during the Battle of Moscow.

Panorama of Metrostroevskaya Street, lined with anti-tank "hedgehogs".

Belyutin passes under the arch of the courtyard.

Newsreel: V.I. Lenin in the coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1924. Crowds of people on the streets of Moscow, walking to the Column Hall to say goodbye to Lenin.

Lenin in the coffin.

Dzerzhinsky F.E. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.

Voroshilov K.E. in the honor guard.

Red Navy sailors with rifles pass by the coffin.

Kalinin M.I. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.

Kamenev L.B. in the honor guard.

Rykov A.I. and a delegate to the Extraordinary Congress of Soviets in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.

Stalin I.V. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.

Belyutin's painting "Requiem", dedicated to Lenin's funeral, painted in 1962 and kept in the Tretyakov Gallery.

E. Belyutin passes under the courtyard arch.

Newsreel: athletes walk along one of the streets of Moscow during the May Day celebrations in the late 1920s.

Awarding of the best workers in construction, the newsreel alternates with footage of the brick molding process.

Faces of the awardees.

Faces of the applauding athletes-participants of the May Day demonstration.

Faces of young people and applauding rally participants.

Stalin I.V. greets the participants of the physical education parade from the tribune in the mid-1930s.

A warehouse worker pushes a loaded cart in front of him.

View of the arch of the passage between the courtyards and the walls of the house.

Newsreel: "track army men" - prisoners at the construction of the railway at the turn of the 1920s - 1930s.

Laying rails on sleepers.

Synchronized driving of rail spikes into sleepers.

People with wheelbarrows at one of the construction sites of the First Five-Year Plan.

Earthworks during the construction of industrial enterprises.

Transportation and dumping of soil from mine carts.

Participants in the physical culture parade on Red Square carry the banners of sports societies.

View of Red Square during the physical culture parade.

Parade participants pass by with the banners of sports societies.

Legs and torsos of passing athletes, the newsreel alternates with views of the arch and walls of Belyutin's house.

Khrushchev N.S. and his entourage during a visit to an art exhibition.

Paintings by Soviet artists, written in the style of socialist realism, presented at the exhibition.

Khrushchev N.S., Brezhnev L.I. during the viewing of the paintings.

Painting with the image of Khrushchev.

Faces of applauding participants of Khrushchev's meeting with the intelligentsia in 1962. Legs of Belyutin, walking through a puddle.

Painting "Blinded".

Belyutin walks through the yard, fragments of Belyutin's paintings.

Paintings by artists of the New Reality studio, presented at the exhibition in Manezh in 1990, fragments of paintings.

Belyutin talks to an American artist at the exhibition (synchronously and off-screen).

Paintings from the exhibition.

Belyutin's face during a conversation with a guest, informing about the organization of the exhibition in New York, Beltin speaks about the spirit of real art living in the people (synchronously).

One of the paintings presented at the exhibition.

Paintings leaning against tree trunks during a meeting of cultural and art figures in the Abramtsevo museum-estate, Belyutin's story about the creation of the Abramtsevo brotherhood, about the history of the estate, about the goals of the Abramtsevo brotherhood is heard off-screen.

View of part of the house in Abramtsevo (panorama).

Interiors of the house, paintings on the walls, artists inside the house (panorama).

Roses in a crystal vase.

Artists inside the house work on their paintings (panorama), while in the background, the artists' memories of being persecuted by the authorities after the exhibition at the Manezh are heard.

A fragment of a painting written in the nonconformist style. E. Belyutin talks about the theme of the Great Patriotic War in his work, about the influence of the war on his work (synchronously and behind the scenes).

An artist from the "New Reality" group works on a painting and talks about the influence of the war on his creative views (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Fragments of one of the paintings at the exhibition in the Manege.

Two artists walk along the street of a provincial town past log houses.

Chickens at the gate.

The artist Yu.

Skopov enters his studio, continues his interrupted work on the painting.

A rock band performs on stage, Skopov works on the painting.

Skopov's painting near the house in the yard, Skopov's wife talks about nonconformism as a movement in art, explains the meaning and idea of her husband's painting exhibited in the yard (synchronously and behind the scenes), fragments of the painting. E. Belyutin among his associates in the studio, the artists' faces (panorama).

Belyutin's photographs among the artists of the "New Reality" studio.

Interior view of the room with photographs on the walls (panorama), the artists playing billiards.

Photograph by M.A. Suslov.

Belyutin speaks at the exhibition about the exhibition that has opened, the number of artists supporting the "New Reality" style, and the increase in creative activity (synchronously and behind the scenes).

One of the artists speaks about women in art, about art as a stream (synchronously).

Self-portrait painting of the Abramtsevo Brotherhood.

Elderly artists at the open windows of a house in Abramtsevo.

Sunset over the Oka.

Motor ships sail along the Oka (panorama).

Views and photographs of the cities: Kasimov, Kalyazin, Uglich, Nizhny Novgorod, Yegoryevsk.

Photographs of members of the Abramtsevo Brotherhood during trips to the Volga cities.

Bell tower of the St.

Nicholas Cathedral in Kalyazin.

Uglich Reservoir.

View of the Orthodox Church building.

Fragment of a painting depicting Orthodox churches.

Volga landscapes in the Nizhny Novgorod region, ships on the river, fragments of paintings.

The sun shines through the branches of trees.

Trace of the setting sun on the surface of the water.

Disc of the setting sun.

Fragments of one of the paintings.

Paintings by artists of the New Reality studio, created during trips along the Volga.

A scene from the opera Mavra performed by the artists of the Helikon Opera.

Paintings by artists of the Abramtsevo Brotherhood, fragments of paintings.

Belyutin talks about the emergence of a new revolutionary art in Russia, talks about the work of Malevich, who created the art of supermatism, explains its essence, about the followers of Malevich's work, analyzes Malevich's work (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Malevich's painting Black Square.

Graphic works by Malevich.

A scene from the play Black Square, a collage of photographs of buildings painted in Malevich's style.

The head of an antique statue, a fragment of a Renaissance painting, Belyutin's face (panorama).

Reproductions of paintings in the style of nonconformism, an antique statuette.

Belyutin's face behind glass, against the background of fragments of paintings (combined shooting.

Panorama of a part of one of the Manege halls, visitors looking at paintings by artists of the "New Reality" studio.

At the exhibition, Belyutin explains the reasons that prompted him and his associates to create in the nonconformist style, talks about the creative system of human modules and their reflection in art (synchronously).

Fragments of paintings of the nonconformist trend.

Belyutin demonstrates on canvas the method of encoding an object or figure when creating a nonconformist work of art during a lesson with his students (synchronously and behind the scenes), faces of Belyutin's students.

Images of people in paintings in the nonconformist style, exhibited in the Manege (panorama).

Reading aloud in Belyutin's apartment.

Burning candles in a candlestick.

Faces of Belyutin's like-minded artists, Belyutin talks about the influence of Academician Vernadsky's ideas on fine art, about the connection between a person's inner world and their perception of visual means, demonstrates a table of psychograms of the rhythm of human perception, talks about the influence of rhythm on changes in the form of perception (synchronously and behind the scenes), fragments of the table.

The head of a statue in Belyutin's apartment.

Pendulum and dial of an antique clock.

A young man reads excerpts from a book aloud to Belyutin's students in his apartment, a fragment of a Renaissance painting in Belyutin's apartment.

Belyutin demonstrates the works of a nonconformist artist to his students, explains their scheme and meaning, the application of the code principle when painting (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Fragments of the painting "Christ and Pilate".

Paintings in Belyutin's apartment, Belyutin discusses the topic: "What is an artist?", quotes Marcel Proust (synchronously).

Street views of Italian cities - Venice, Milan, Belluno.

Views of ancient cathedrals, sculptural groups and statues decorating the buildings.

A painting painted in the nonconformist style covers a window on the balcony of one of the buildings.

The organizer of the exhibition of Belyutin's works in Italy talks about organizing the exhibition in Milan, about the interest in Belyutin's work in the USA and Western Europe (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Belyutin's paintings exhibited on the balcony and in front of the gallery building in Milan.

Panorama of part of one of the canals of Venice.

Panorama of the city of Belluno and its environs.

View of ancient buildings on the city square.

Belyutin's painting, presented by him as a gift to the city of Belluno.

Mountain landscape in the vicinity of Belluno (panorama).

Belyutin's associates and students meet him after returning from Italy in his apartment.

Belyutin and his students during a festive feast after returning from Italy give a table speech about the freedom of the artist, about the world recognition of the code system in the visual arts, raises a toast to his students (synchronously and off-screen).

Panorama of the feast, faces of the artists.

Paintings by artists of the New Reality studio leaning against tree trunks on the alley in the Abramtsevo museum-estate (panorama).

Paintings leaning against the wall of the house, artists of the Abramtsevo brotherhood on the territory of the estate near their paintings.

Faces of talking artists.

Paintings by artists of the Abramtsevo brotherhood on the walls of the exhibition hall in the Manege, fragments of paintings.

Belyutin sits on a bench on the boulevard, feeds pigeons.

Belyutin walks under the arch into the courtyard of his house, walks through the courtyard and enters the entrance, panorama of the walls of the house (from bottom to top).

Belyutin's students listen to the reader.

Belyutin at an exhibition with his painting among like-minded people and students.