Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Socialist Realism in the Works by the “Four Arts” Association Artists

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (2)
Authors
Seredkina, Natalya N.
Contact information
Seredkina, Natalya N. : Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation;
Keywords
“Four Arts”; art associations; Soviet art; the works by A. T. Matveev
Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of the Four Arts art association and the identification of their strategy for including art in the general context of cultural construction in the early Soviet period of the 1920s. The study includes an analysis of a number of documents regulating the activities of representatives of this artistic association, as well as the work of one of its leading sculptors, A.T. Matveev. The philosophical and art criticism analysis of one of his representative works is carried out – the sculptural composition “October”, made in 1927 in honor of the decade of the October Revolution, a landmark event in the history and culture of the Russian state. It is determined that the activities of the members of the association were focused on the inclusion of art in the general policy of building a socialist culture of Russian society. This activity was documented and assumed the implementation of a fairly wide range of types of work, each of which was aimed at the development and actualization of Russian fine art as one of the most important mechanisms for the transformation of the cultural identity of Soviet society. The analysis of the work of sculptor A.T. Matveev, including as part of the membership of the art association “Four Arts”, allowed us to identify the characteristic features of the direction of the creative activity of the masters of this association. The possibility of developing one’s own unique method of creative work is recognized as relevant, which was also used by each master in order to implement the practice of maintaining the cultural policy of socialist construction, stated in the manifestos of the members of the art association “Four Arts”. It is determined that this direction of creative activity of the members of the association has expanded the subject of their works, the range of artistic forms and signs designed to embody the new values of the new socialist culture

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299–309
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ZIDINS
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/154849

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