CATALOGUE
In 2002-2004 the III International Contest of children‘s painting «Past, Resent, and Future in children‘s art” took place in Moscow region town Elektrostal. The project was initiated by Elektrostal Administration in Moscow region, charity organization "Putnik” under support of Ministry for Culture and Mass Communication in Russian Federation, Ministry for Culture in Moscow region, and by the Authorized Representative on human rights in Moscow region.
Chairman of the organizing committee of the competition – mayor of Elektrostal Nikolai Petrovich Vasiliev. Vise-chairman of the organizing committee – head of the department for culture in Elektrostal Chestnyh Svetlana Ivanovna, and the chairman of social charity organization "Putnik" Kulichenko Petr Vladimirovich. Chairman of the jury is Panov Vladimir Petrovich – honored artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Moscow State Institute of Arts by the name of V.I. Surikov. Members of the jury: Geraskevich Valery –member of the Rusian Union of Artists, Koriagin Gennady -member of the Rusian Union of Artists,
Ivanova Julia – head of the department of fine and decorative applied arts of the State Russian House of national art of Ministry for Culture in Russian Federation, Candidate of fine art.
In total, 16164 works of children and teenagers, aged from 4 up to 17, came to the competition. They represent 40 countries of the world including England, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Germany, Egypt, India, Canada, China, Mexico, Namibia, Poland, Romania, the USA, Turkey, Sri-Lanka, Yugoslavia, as well as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia. Russia is represented by 79 districts of Federation.
Each drawing was examined thoroughly by highly professional jury.
The results of the competition were summed up in three rounds, stage by stage, separately in each age group, in accordance with five nomination "Past", "Present", "Future", "Triptychs", "Monotriptychs" (reflecting three periods in one work).
After holding the first qualifying round of the competition the jury chose 2000 works for further examination, out of which 365 works were chosen in the second round.
These works formed an exhibition, which had a great success in Elektrostal, Moscow region, in September 2003. The winners were chosen in the third round of the competition.
As a result of the three rounds, 2000 participants became prize-winners in the competition, among them 250 children acquired title "Hope of the Future", 65 drawings were singled out for an additional rewarding nomination "Bright reflection of the theme", prize-winning places and medals were awarded to 49 participants from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Iran, China, Slovakia, Siria, Egypt, Sloveniya, Venezuela, Mjngolia, Mexico, Cyprus, Turkey, Yugoslavia.
The best work of the competition has been called the drawing «Peace» by Suren Alfred Anderson from Colombo, Sri-Lanka. Grand-Prize of the Competition was awarded to the painter. .
We thank young artists, teachers - all the people who accepted our invitation. We wish you all success and hope for cooperation in future projects.
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