Art School of the Krasnoyarsk Region: Formation Features Analysis Through the Prism of the Fractal Concept

Abstract

The article is based on a study aimed to the possibility of applying the fractal concept for the region’s artistic life study and the formation of its professional art education system. There are main features of the application of the fractal concept in this study, its subject is the activity of creative leaders at the initial stage of the formation of the professional art education system in Krasnoyarsk at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries. Historical analysis and historiographic approach for studying the formation of art education makes it possible to determine the key origin points of the regional art school, and due to use of an anthropological approach the role of the individuals in the periphery artistic life reveals, as well as the launch and coordination of self-organizing processes. There were a set of factors which determined the unique appearance of the regional art culture and the features of its educational tradition at the initial stage of the professional art education system formation which were manifested primarily through the activities of creative leaders: M. A. Rutchenko and P. I. Ivanov-Radkevich, who could be called as anthropological fractals. The main directions of their work and artistic and teaching methods made it possible to determine the basic provisions for the development of the culture of the region and important steps towards the historical, geographical and ethnographic self-identification in the culture and art of Krasnoyarsk