DASHI NAMDAKOV. TRANSFORMATION. WHAT DID THE AUTHOR WANT TO SAY?

Abstract

The article considers the peculiarities of the viewer's perception of a work of fine art with two different approaches to its content. The first approach is based on the viewer's desire to get an answer to the question: «What did the author want to say?». The second approach keeps the focus of the viewer's communication with the work of art on the question: «What is this work about?». In the first case, the artistic idea of the work is comprehended on a personal level, based on the individual author's interpretation of the image. In the second case, a richer assimilation by the viewer of the artistic idea of the work is possible at the personal, actual-historical and universal levels. The specificity of each approach is considered on the example of the sculptural work "Transformation" by Dashi Namdakov, located on the campus of the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk). Based on the methodology of the modern theory of fine arts by V.I. Zhukovsky and N.P. Koptseva convincingly proves that both approaches require significant efforts from the viewer to prepare for interaction with a work of fine art. Otherwise, the content of the work will be reduced to the viewer's fantasies about the author and his life or about the theme of the work. Only conscious viewing, perceived as a skill that needs to be specially trained and constantly trained, can guarantee a deep meaningful interaction of the viewer with a work of fine art at its different content levels.