... and new pronounced social and cultural layers, so as to turn the soil from conditions of existence into a symbol for the spiritual life.
The perception of numerous areas in Russia today is an echo of distant ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
Tanja Malycheva
University of Münster, Germany
Iconography is a memory carrier; it is a system of symbols that has been developed for generations and a necessary tool to read the actual picture ...
(2015 World Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Art)
... to dissect them into fragments, and to bring them closer to symbolic state.
For Gormley, sculpture is not so much a physical object as a way of revealing the trace left in space by a human being. This ...
(2015 World Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Art)
Anna Borodkina
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Symbolism of the materials, as a part of alchemy, was an important element of the Middle Ages’, and later on, of the Renaissance philosophical ...
... Jan Matejko and V. M. Vasnetsov, which become a sort of link between the 19th century and time of Secession — Symbolism and early modernism. As the critic S. K. Makovsky wrote: “Vasnetsov created a style. ...
... worldview and how it was correlated with a romantic category of the sublime. Aivazovsky will return to this theme at least twice in his later career. The paper contains the analysis of the artist’s symbolic ...
... of the entire complex of vegetal allegories. The origin of the allegories is traced from the classical antiquity to the baroque. Although having their roots mostly in the invariants of the “Symbols and ...
... in typological, figurative, compositional and symbolic contexts.
Among art schools that gave the world the greatest diversity of family paintings the dominant were the Netherlands, and subsequently ...
... and Michelangelo in terms of perception, composition, technological and decorative methods. Analysis of linear-spatial constructions in Hodler’s symbolist figure compositions is carried out, and issues ...
... Light and color effects on his canvases allow suggesting: Turner’s art “not only represented the light, but also symbolized its nature”. So, “Light and Colour” (exhibited 1843) could be claimed as a manifesto ...
Elena Klyushina
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Fernand Khnopff’s art, like the Belgian symbolism as a whole, has been little studied in Russia. Except for some modest references ...
... referred when he created The Maccabees (1830–1842), the most important patriotic and symbolic painting of Polish Romanticism. In the next generation,
Henryk Rodakowski alluded in historical scenes and ...
... order of his nephew, cardinal Francesco Piccolomini. The patron based the programme of the murals on the text of “Commentarii”. The library became a symbol of the cardinal’s gratitude. It contains the ...
... case.
In 14th–15th centuries most of the dance images were more or less symbolic and had additional meanings. Dance was one of the tools to transfer meanings. Studying this type of images a scholar ...
... in works of some masters shows particular passion to fruit symbols. These are the compositions of Carlo Crivelli, where the glorification of Madonna and Christ is expressed in the language of traditional ...
... type “Memento mori” that can be represented in other kinds of art. However, thanks to the variety of techniques and materials, jewellers created an original recognizable language of symbols, which enriches ...
... it.
The reference to a pictorial model from the Early Christian age was a markedly symbolic operation, that is to say, such a reference suggested a close connection with the traditional values. This ...
Darya Naydenova
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Saint Christopher was considered in the West as one of the most popular saints, being included in the group of “the Fourteen Holy ...
... was founded (1654). In Western European tradition the cycles of Christ’s Passion and symbolism of the Instruments of the Passion were by that time very popular. The actualization of the Passion scenes ...
... need to highlight a certain symbolic interpretation of the well-known account of the Holy Scripture. Yet the iconographic anomalies might be inspired by literary works common in the pre-Mongol Rus’: apocrypha, ...