Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Image of Soviet Russia Woman in the Art of 1917–1922

Full text (.pdf)
Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (2)
Authors
Leshchinskaia, Natalia M.; Sertakova, Ekaterina A.
Contact information
Leshchinskaia, Natalia M. : Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; nlibakova@sfu-kras.ru ORCID: 0000-0002-1694-9080; Sertakova, Ekaterina A. : Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000-0002-7153-9770
Keywords
the image of woman; painting; fine art of Soviet Russia 1917–1922; philosophical and art history analysis
Abstract

The period from 1917 to 1922 – a unique time in the history of Russian art, in these years there is a consolidation of new values, radically different from the previous era – the times of the Russian Empire. Having destroyed the “old world”, they turn to the creation of a new one – with new ideals, including new ideas about what a woman should be in the new state. The article is devoted to analyzing the work of Russian artists, whose works depict female images. The works of D. P. Shterenberg, V. G. Tikhov, A. E. Arkhipov, and F. A. Malyavin were chosen as representatives, since for these artists the depiction of women is an important line of their creative path. As a result of applying the method of philosophical and art history analysis it was found that the masters-painters, brought up in an academic environment, who valued Russian culture, in the post-revolutionary years did not hurry to turn to the images of revolutionary women, battle girlfriends, companions and comrades. Other subjects were embodied in the works of art of the period, transformation and reinterpretation of traditional images were visualized by artists of young Soviet Russia. Turning to the depiction of everyday subjects, placing heroines in simple interiors of huts, bathhouses, masters with the help of signs, color symbolism and poses, elevate them to the level of goddesses, presenting them as guardians of life, a source of warmth, joy and light, thus affirming the traditional values of native Russian culture

Pages
277–286
EDN
WGCGAM
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/154847

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Меню