Stylistic evolution of magazine and book graphics by “Blue Rose” artists

Abstract

The works of the “Blue Rose” artists in the field of magazine and book design allow us to judge the nature of the stylistic evolution of their graphic language. In the drawings that decorated the pages of periodicals of the 1900s, a single set of techniques is often used, and the fascination of the whole group with the aesthetic ideas of symbolists becomes obvious. But gradually the masters of this circle move away from purely decorative ornamental fantasies, get carried away with solving more complex problems. In the 1920s and 1930s, their desire to overcome the painful extremes and pretentious significance of modernity, the search for a language much more intelligible and concise, became obvious.