Nonna Yakovleva
The Union of artist of Russia, Russia
Chronological typology is a version of the dynamic system as description of developing integrity. It is based on genre as type of artistic image — an ideal element of artwork encoded in the material. Artistic image forms a necessary core at all levels of genre typology, starting from unique artwork, whose properties are intrinsic to all levels of the system, up to the artistic image of the world. In actual artistic process every genre is characterized by special form and content, has a necessary and sufficient composition of figurative elements, which are connected in special structure, and fulfil its inherent functions. Primary elements of the artistic image at all levels of the system are the images of man, society, civilization as the second or man-made nature, divine nature and perfect spiritual reality in inexhaustible variety. Genre chronological typology is a hierarchical dynamic system, whose properties are manifested to different extents in various art forms, genres, genre associations (systems). The process of genre creation is similar to individual artistic creation. Genres and genre systems arise in response to external challenges, develop according to internal program (code of self-development) and under the influence of impulses of multilayer environment (context). After creation of a special artistic image, they continue their development in the individual and collective perception. Local genres in the system are adjacent to the plurality of intermediate or transitional forms of genre. The theoretical model of genre chronological typology was tested on the material of Russian painting of Modernity. This model: (a) provides a system of options for the research of individual genres and genre associations (the term of G. K. Wagner) in their growth and development; (b) makes it possible to describe all the complex of the world art as a coherent genre system in its diversity of types; (c) identifies the intrinsic logic of the artistic process and endogenous factors of art development.