Establishment of Authorship of Movie Poster "Ukraziya. 7+2", 1924

Abstract

The aim of the research. Establishment of authorship of the well-known Ukrainian movie poster which was created by the unstated artist for a film «Ukraziya. 7+2», produced at the 1-st film studios of the All-Ukrainian photo and cinema management in Odesa. The general aim is liquidation of lacunas in the poster-graphic inheritance of the Ukrainian art of 1920-30th. Methods of research . The research is based on art criticism, historical analysis and the comparative method, using the comparison of mediated documentary evidence and facts of the biography of the Ukrainian cinema artist Anatoly Volodymyrovych Martynov. Scientific novelty. For the first time on the basis of scientific analysis an attempt was made to establish the author of an unidentified Ukrainian movie poster «Ukraziya. 7+2» in 1924. Conclusions . The analysis of the compositional techniques, the graphic stylization of realistic content, the specific modeling of the light waves on the faces and clothes of the characters, and the plane interpretation of the forms in the image of industrial motifs, as well as the comparative study of the characteristics of the applied handwritten fonts and the similarity of letters and numbers proved the high probability of belonging the poster to the creative heritage of the Ukrainian artist of the XX century Anatoly Volodymyrovych Martynov. The assumption is confirmed by the results of historical analysis of the source data of the print sheet, the comparison of the mediated facts of the functioning of the artistic industry in Ukraine at that time, documentary tracking of the biographical data of a possible candidate for authorship of a cinematic work, such as professional artistic education, employment, relations with typography of other republics of the USSR, related to the poster graphic arts activities in the field of «lubok» publishing and series of postcards.