Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Problem of Portraying Motion in Painting and Graphic Art of the 1920s in the Context of the Theme of Sports

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (12)
Authors
Malevinskaia, Natal‘ia V.
Contact information
Malevinskaia, Natal‘ia V.: Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 17 Universitetskaya Embarkment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia;
Keywords
Soviet art of the 1920s; sports theme; motion; composite structures
Abstract

The article covers the brightest sculpturesque solutions of the works of art of the 1920s devoted to the sport subject referring to the problem of expressing motion in painting and graphics. The lost and little-known works which had an essential impact on the formation of the genre but insufficiently examined by Russian Art Studies shall be regarded. And in particular, peculiarities of the pictures’ design of such masters as A. Deyneka, Yu. Pimenov, K. Vyalov and others. The most extraordinary solutions of the problem of graphic expression of movement were proposed by representatives of Moscow Higher Art and Technical Studios (VHUTEMAS), having addressed the dynamic sports plots. Plurality of the points of view and representation of the movement in various phases often express the dynamism of the object in art works; diagonal compositions with emphasis on geometrism are also used. Having consolidated formal and analytical approach to the form and realistic vision of life and having assimilated traditions of new trends of the beginning of the 20th century, the VHUTEMAS representatives reconceived the expressiveness of composition in the easel painting

Pages
2964-2970
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/30310

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