{"title":"Expressionist Traditions in the Works of Contemporary Artists of Russia and Former Union Republics","authors":"E. Radaeva","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-284-299","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes the influence of the expressionist method on the painting of contemporary artists in Russia, as well as (to a greater or lesser extent) Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan. The exhibitions of recent years, thematic publics on art (on social networks) came to be the study`s initial material, then we are talking selectively about the work of individual authors. The research allowed for concluding: in modern fine arts, expressionism is distinguished by its unconditional “vitality” and the ability to assimilate with new trends; the “handwriting” of modern “expressionists” is characterized by the constant absence of chiaroscuro, often — the pretentiousness of the color scale; the theme of the spirit stifling in the gripe of the City, and the spirit of protest, pouring out into feminism or rejection of civilization (bourgeois / market), sometimes — aestheticization of the ugly, motifs of death and decay, sometimes — primitivism, childishness, gravitation towards the poster technique. However, today we are dealing with a “softened” version of expressionism: not always a pessimistic view of the artist's world, not always based on a pronounced rebellious beginning.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-284-299","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The paper analyzes the influence of the expressionist method on the painting of contemporary artists in Russia, as well as (to a greater or lesser extent) Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan. The exhibitions of recent years, thematic publics on art (on social networks) came to be the study`s initial material, then we are talking selectively about the work of individual authors. The research allowed for concluding: in modern fine arts, expressionism is distinguished by its unconditional “vitality” and the ability to assimilate with new trends; the “handwriting” of modern “expressionists” is characterized by the constant absence of chiaroscuro, often — the pretentiousness of the color scale; the theme of the spirit stifling in the gripe of the City, and the spirit of protest, pouring out into feminism or rejection of civilization (bourgeois / market), sometimes — aestheticization of the ugly, motifs of death and decay, sometimes — primitivism, childishness, gravitation towards the poster technique. However, today we are dealing with a “softened” version of expressionism: not always a pessimistic view of the artist's world, not always based on a pronounced rebellious beginning.