... an era of “Enlivenment”. Whereas the Enlightenment intended to elevate mankind from its incapacitation by granting it rational agency, the “Enlivenment” would preserve the Enlightenment values such as individual ...
Tatiana Yurieva
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Iconographic description of a contemporary Russian critic consists of paradoxes. However, critics create the foundation for future ...
... in representation of the world of objects. In our case study we will examine the world of objects in satiric graphics by William Hogarth, both in the context of Rococo and British Enlightenment.
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Grigory Isaev
Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Russia
The paper examines interaction of religion and art. Any culture is in fact a cult of certain spiritual powers: either light — creative, ...
... pre-Petrine and Russia of the Age of Enlightment, there is some specificity of folklore in cultural of these historical periods, pagan in its nature, which contradicts basic components of official orthodox ...
Irina Dashevskaia
Interregional Institute of Economics and Law, Russia
A distinctive feature of the present stage of development of human society is a close link between cultural and political ...
... and was delighted with their originality. In his opinion, the charm of this art lies in its “directness, naive archaism”.
Strikingly, the frescoes of the old Polish-Russian synagogues, examined and ...
... was interpreted mostly as a counterpart of Elizabethan era, a source of national revival. In this essay, we would like to highlight other aspects including the reasons for emerging interest in the Renaissance ...
Mikhail Anikin
The State Hermitage Museum, Russia
What impresses most in Leonardo Da Vinci’s works is their transcendental qualities, the empyreal light, which the maitre manages to capture ...
... (by way of light, flattening, so-called “reverse perspective” and other stylistic devices which are traditionally pointed out by iconology), but creation of an entire microcosm, an image perfectly fitted ...
... prototype of notions not only in art, but also in public enlightment, education — the fundamental principle of ethical word-meaning sacrificial predestination;
• examples of religious themes in the ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... the town and the country was reflected in the views on the ideal structure of society, especially in the light of the eschatological sentiment of the early 20th century. The city as a perfect hierarchy ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... main purpose of our report is to present the artistic world of the painter, to highlight the system of his spiritual values and his means of artistic expression. Icon-painting and nude art contrast in his ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
Maria Drobyshevskaya, Maksim Prokop’ev
Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Unfortunately, the art of Siberian artists has been often neglected. But it is art of outstanding Siberian masters, ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... The pictures devoted to religious and mystical themes were inspired by the images of people and events of the epoch, of wars and revolutions disclosed to her as visions, sometimes calm and enlightened, ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... the innovator in the exhibition design, Klutsis sincerely believed in the ideas of transformation of the world and transformation of a person. The author of this work tries to shed a new light at the pedagogy ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... The discussion revealed controversy in the state arts policy and opposite views of the People’s Commissar of Enlightenment and the Head of the Art Department of the same Commissariat was a perfect example. ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... searchlight mounted in the center of it allows using it as a beacon.
Non-professional architect V. Klimov creates a grandiose project on the Neva River, by the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and ...
(2015 World Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Art)
... chance to find their canvas enables us to view their creative activity in a new light.
I am going to present a picture called “The children’s party” (1928) by Paul Sourikoff in my report. The picture ...
... of the paper is to shed new light upon a significant, but hitherto unknown episode in the development of panoramas and dioramas in the Russian Empire, namely a panorama “View of Palermo” (1846), painted ...