Svetlana Gracheva Renaissance Motifs in Pictorial Art of Contemporary St. Petersburg Academists.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa166-9-77
Title Renaissance Motifs in Pictorial Art of Contemporary St. Petersburg Academists.
Author email grachewasvetlana@yandex.ru
About author Gracheva, Svetlana Mikhailovna — Full Doctor, the dean of the faculty, professor. I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Russian Academy of Arts, Universitetskaia nab., 17, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
In the section Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Art DOI10.18688/aa166-9-77
Year 2016 Volume 6 Pages 706–714
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.036 Index BBK 85.13
Abstract

Academism has always been known as elite, idealistic, “pure” art oriented at the best traditions of world culture. Traditions of Renaissance art play a significant role in modern academic school of St. Petersburg, which carries a degree of refinement and seclusion from the experiments of so-called contemporary art. Particularly, the influence of Renaissance art is in the appeal to human, anthropomorphic, and humanistic orientation and the persistence of narrative painting. In this quest, there is a kind of desire of contemporary artists to realize their creative and human freedom. The article discusses the works of A. Mylnikov, H. Savkuev., Y. Kaljuta, O. Svederskaya, Yu. Behova, N. Ryzhikova, I. Korneev, and other St. Petersburg artists who appealed to the images of Renaissance art. Contemporary artists have a completely different cultural experience, and their worldview is not built literally on the ideas of Neoplatonism. Often the tradition of Renaissance culture is reviewed under the prism of many layers of other historical epochs. Contemporary academists find in the tradition only what is consonant with their personal experiences and feelings based on their modern professionalism and skill. It’s not just post-modernist citation of masterpieces, but the immersion into the mysteries and secrets of the craft and the desire to express their ideas through the tradition of Renaissance art.
Keywords
Reference Svetlana Gracheva. Renaissance Motifs in Pictorial Art of Contemporary St. Petersburg Academists.. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 6. Eds: Anna V. Zakharova, Svetlana V. Maltseva, Ekaterina Yu. Stanyukovich-Denisova. St. Petersburg, NP-Print Publ., 2016, pp. 706–714. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa166-9-77
Publication Article language russian
Bibliography
  • Bobrov Ju. G. (ed.) Iubilejnyi spravochnik vypusknikov Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo akademicheskogo instituta zhivopisi, skul’ptury i arhitektury imeni I. E. Repina Rossiiskoi Akademii khudozhestv. 1915–2005 (Anniversary Meeting of graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Named after I. E. Repin of Russian Academy of arts. 1915–2005). St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Institut imeni I. E. Repina Publ., 2007. 791 p. (in Russian).
  • Bogemskaja K. G. Peizazh. Stranitsy istorii (Landscape. Pages of History). Мoscow, Galaktika Publ., 1992. 335 p. (in Russian).
  • Elizarova E. M.; Kutejnikova N. S. I. Repin and Modern Artistic and Pedagogical Practice. Repin — blizkoe, dalekoe (Repin — Close, Far). St. Petersburg, Institut imeni I. E. Repina Publ., 1999. P. 82–86. (in Russian).
  • Gracheva S. M. “In Keeping with the True and Most Noble Purpose of Art...” From the history of the Russian Academy of Arts the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Iskusstvoznanie, 2009, no. 3–4, pp. 568–585 (in Russian).
  • Gracheva S. M. Spring Exhibition of Teachers of the Institute Named after I. E. Repin. Academia, 2009, no. 3, pp. 35–40 (in Russian).
  • Gracheva S. M. Spring Exhibition of Teachers of the Institute Named after I. E. Repin. Academia, 2010, no. 3, pp. 66–70 (in Russian).
  • Gracheva S. M. Pearl World of Dreams of Nina Ryzhikova. Nina Ryzhikova. Album. St. Petersburg, Artindex Publ., 2013, pp. 8–15 (in Russian).
  • Gracheva S. M. Portrait Genre in the Academic Modern Art of St. Petersburg. Nauchnye trudy Instituta imeni I. E. Repina (Research Papers оf the Institute Named after I. E. Repin), 2013, vol. 26, pp. 51–60 (in Russian).
  • Grishina E. V. From the History of Graphic Faculty. 1947–1961. Iskusstvo Rossii (proshloe i nastoiashhee) (Art of Russia (Past and Present)). Saint-Petersburg, Institut imeni I. E. Repina Publ., 2000. P. 72–78 (in Russian).
  • Kichko S. D. A Dialogue with Memory (about E. E. Moiseenko). Iz istorii khudozhestvennoi shkoly. (From the History of the Art School). Saint-Petersburg, Institut imeni I. E. Repina Publ., 1999, pp. 5–8 (in Russian).
  • Klim Li. Grafika (Graphics). Catalogue of the Exhibition. Sel’co Mihajlovskoe Publ., 2007. 56 p. (in Russian).
  • Kutejnikova N. S. Hamid Savkuev. Life Lessons and Composition. Hamid Savkuev. Album. Saint-Petersburg, Artindex Publ., 2009, pp. 5–15 (in Russian).
  • Kutejnikova N. S. (ed) K iubileju fakul’teta teorii i istorii iskusstv Instituta imeni I. E. Repina. (For the Anniversary of the Faculty of Theory and History of Arts of Institute Named after I. E. Repin). Saint-Petersburg, Institut imeni I. E. Repina Publ., 2012. 230 p. (in Russian).
  • Lenjashin V.; Kaljuta Ju.; Kutejnikova N. Jurij Kaljuta. Krasnoe i chernoe (Iuriii Kaljuta. Red and Black).Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions Publ., 2012. 296 p. (in Russian).
  • Lenjashin V. A. Edinica hranenija. Russkaia zhivopis’ — opyt muzeinogo istolkovaniia (The Unit of Storage. Russian Paintings — the Experience of Museum Interpretation). Saint-Petersburg, Zolotoi vek Publ., 2014. 439 p. (in Russian).
  • Lisovskij V. G. Akademiia khudozhestv (The Academy of Arts). Leningrad, Lenizdat Publ., 1982. 223 p. (in Russian).
  • Losev A. F. Estetika Renessansa (The Aesthetics of the Renaissance). Мoscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1982. 623 p. (in Russian).
  • Mylnikov А. Katalog vystavki rabot v zalah Akademii khudozhestv v Sankt-Peterburge (Catalogue of the Exhibition of Works at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg). Мoscow, Khudozhnik i kniga Publ., 2012. 179 p (in Russian).
  • Riazantsev I. V.; Kalugina O. V.; Samohin A. V. Imperatorskaia Akademiia khudozhestv. Dokumenty i issledovanija. K 250-letiiu osnovanija (The Imperial Academy of Arts. Documents and Studies. To the 250th Anniversary of the Foundation). Мoscow, Pamjatniki istoricheskoi mysli Publ., 2010. 612 p. (in Russian).
  • Tugendhol’d Ja. A. About the Portrait. Apollon, 1912, no. 8, pp. 33–52 (in Russian).