Rules for participation in the Assembly of Plein Air

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The international open-air exhibition-competition "ART SEASON" will be held in Moscow.

EXHIBITION IN MOSCOW:

Exhibition Dates: January 18-23, 2022.
Registration deadline: until January 10, 2022 inclusive.
Exhibition Address: Exhibition Hall of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists (St. Petersburg, Bolshaya Morskaya str., 38).
Opening hours of the exhibition: daily from 12.00 to 19.00. To visit the exhibition, you must have a mask with you. QR code is not required!

Opening ceremony: January 18, 2022, 17.00. Award ceremony: January 23, 2022, 16.00.
Links to participate in the online (you need to subscribe to an Instagram account @nextart.pro ): https://www.instagram.com/nextart.pro

Artists from any country of the world representing works created in open air have the right to participate in exhibition.

There are two equal forms of participation: OFFLINE and ONLINE. Offline and online works have equal rights. All works submitted for the competition (originals and copies) are exhibited in the exhibition space of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, open to a wide audience and evaluated by the Expert Council (jury) in accordance with general criteria.

TOPIC: "Seasons".

SECTIONS:
1. Winter
2. Spring
3. Summer
4. Autumn

TECHNIQUES:
1. Painting
2. Graphics
3. Textiles
4. Arts and crafts
5. Photography

NOMINATIONS:
1. Landscape
2. Architecture
3. Portrait
4. Still life
5. Fauna and wildlife
6. Flora and flowers
7. Water element
8. Hyperrealistic picture
9. Plein air picture
10. Symbolic picture
11. City and people
12. Nature and man
13. Thematic composition / Painting that tells a story

Artists who have created their works in painting, graphic art, textiles, photography, and decorative art are accepted to the exhibition.

TECHNICAL REGULATIONS:

1) The works submitted for the competition must be authors original works, not copies of other artists. Signature, seal or any other identification mark of authorship is allowed anywhere in the photo image. Later on, competitive images are published with copyright marks. Inscriptions with the names of art objects on the front side are not allowed.

2) Both single and series works may be submitted to the competition. Calculation of the cost of participation in the case of a series: each art object in the series is paid as a separate work.
3) Original and copy participants provide the same registration set of materials: application form, photographs of works and the author, labels.
4) Technical characteristics of art objects provided for the competition and exhibition:
a) original participation: canvas size up to 220 cm on the larger side is allowed. In the case when the size of the art object is more than 100 cm, an entrance fee is paid with a proportional coefficient (you need to clarify the amount of the coefficient in the organizing committee by e-mail).
b) copy participation: a file of at least 200 dpi, up to 20 MB each. A photo image may contain only proprietary (copyright) marks. The names of works on the photo of competitive works are not allowed.
5) Design of offline competitive works:
а) offline work should be provided with a label-description (standard label 10x6 cm., in the lower right corner, on the front side). Label includes: a) surname, name of the author (co-authors) b) city c) title of the artwork d) nomination e) performance technique e) dimensions g) year of creation h) cost of the work (optional).
b) offline work should have fastenings / hooks for hanging on a vertical panel or fastenings and supports preventing the obstruction of the object.
6) Design of copy competitive works:
online entries are provided to the organizing committee in the form of files in .jpeg or .tiff format; not less than 200 dpi, up to 20 Mb.

We are waiting for you at the exhibition.