"The Art of Nature" exhibition in Moscow presents digital projections of paintings

An environmental and educational multimedia exhibition, "The Art of Nature", opened in Moscow, bringing masterpieces "alive" to the sound of the classics. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of ecology, biodiversity and environmental protection.

"We have worked together with leading museums in Russia, such as the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts - and selected 12 paintings dedicated to wildlife. Then we transformed them, made them "alive" and added classical music to them," said Vera Strukova, deputy head of Mospriroda.

The artists digitised the original paintings, then used neural networks to create over 1,000 images for each and combined them together using animation - all to "bring the exhibition to life".

The exhibition includes paintings by Shishkin, Levitan, Monet and others. The images "come alive" to the music of Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. It feels as if you are inside a painting.

According to the organisers, the exhibition is primarily aimed at schoolchildren, but will also be of interest to older people. Visitors can learn more about the stories behind the paintings, the lives of the authors and their ideas. The images were chosen by analogy with Moscow nature: similar landscapes and animals can be found near the Russian capital.