page_title: Misha Brusilovsky
section_title: The 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: Misha Brusilovsky / Biography / Creative work / The 1990s
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Миша Брусиловский. Пьета. Жертвам войны. Холст, масло.145х150. 1978 год.
context_page_description: Misha Brusilovsky was a Russian artist, painter and graphic artist. He was a Member of the Russian union of artists, an honored artist of the Russian Federation, a distinguished member of Russian Academy of Arts, a laureate of the "G. S. Mosin prize" and a winner of the Sverdlovsk region Governor's prize "For outstanding achievements in literature and art".
context_section_description: In 1990, after he came back from France, Brusilovsky was awarded the "G. S. Mosin prize", for his contribution to the development of art in the Ural region.
  In that same year 1990, together with Anatoly Kalashnikov, Brusilovsky got a private commission to paint eleven canvasses, sized 1.5 х 2 m, in the style of interior painting. When the project was complete, the client unexpectedly went abroad. He refused to collect the canvasses, and gave the artists permission to do what they wanted with the paintings. Misha Brusilovsky kept the paintings in his studio for many years, and only in 2013 were they exhibited to the general public.
  In 1992 Brusilovsky visited the United States. He lived in the cities of Columbus and New York. In New York he visited his old friends from the Urals, the poet Bella Abramovna Dijur and her son Ernest Neizvestny. He also met the painter Anatoly Kalashnikov, who had come to New York from Sverdlovsk. But Brusilovsky devoted most of his time there to his work, and in the course of one year he managed to complete approximately one hundred paintings.
  Something happened to me in America. I worked a lot, and most importantly, I had the impression that everything that I was doing was good. I would get up at six and go to bed at three in the morning.  I did more than I had managed to do in the twenty years I lived Sverdlovsk-Ekaterinburg.
  — Misha Brusilovsky, 
  After living in the United States for one year, Misha Brusilovsky decided to come back Sverdlovsk.
  His trips to France and to the United States influenced features of Brusilovsky's style of painting and use of colour,  and once again he began to revisit his favourite themes.
  "The Rape of Europa", "Leda and the Swan, "Little red riding-hood", "Tomcats", "Woman on Horse", "Hunting Lions", and the biblical themes, especially "Peter and the Rooster", and even the renowned tragic composition "Pieta. To the victims of war" are understood in a new interpretation (but in no way a repetition) in the harmony of contrasts, and not as a confrontation between them using various styles.
  — Aleksandr Ryumin, 
  In 1993 a personal exhibition of Misha Brusilovsky's work was held in the offices of the journal "Our Heritage", in Moscow, in which works which used a new style of painting were exhibited.
  In the period between 1993 and 1997, Brusilovsky also created a series of miniature works for the "Autograph" Gallery, which he created according to the principles of abstract art. These included works such as "Abstraction", "Composition", "Opus 2", "Opus 3", "Subjects", "Six subjects", "House", "Window", "Port", "Landscape", "Landscape at night", "Peace", "Remembering", "Leave-taking" and "Golgotha".
  In 1995, 1997 and 1999 he visited Israel.
  In 1999, an exhibition of Brusilovsky's painting called "Biblical themes" was held in the Sverdlovsk state philharmonic. Paintings from Yevgeny Roizman collection were displayed at the exhibition.
  The exhibit included paintings which had been completed in recent years.  Ten years after the retrospective exhibition in 1989 in the Ekaterinburg Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Brusilovsky came before the public for the first time with compositions which used a new style of painting, whose expressive potential was most clearly illustrated by the large-scale canvas "Expulsion from Paradise".
  — Aleksandr Ryumin,
caption: "Pieta. To the victims of war". Canvas, oil. 145х150. 1978.
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