Фолклорът и художникът (резултати от една анкета)
Folklore and the Artists (Results of an inquiry)

Summary/Abstract: An inquiry, including five identical questions, was submitted to a selected group of nine contemporary Bulgarian artists. The criteria for the selection of the artists were their works and the presence of folklore in them (mainly in its traditional form), their active participation in nowadays artistic process, an additional condition was that they had to be representatives of different generations. The questions intended to determine the artists’ attitude to the notion of „folklore”, to fix the links between their works and folklore, to establish their personal vision on the character of the message sent through their works. A special attention was drawn to the type of means of expression (traditional, contemporary and the interrelation between them), to the place of folklore in contemporaneity and to the artists’ views on the culture of Bulgarians in general. The results of the inquiry showed that in spite of the fact that at a „theoretical” level the artists apprehend the notion of „folklore” mainly in its musical forms, but in their artistic practice they regard it as a phenomenon of syncretic character. It is important to note that for the artists participating in the inquiry the folklore is a phenomenon inherent to the nationality, it is regarded as an heritage engendering sortie projections on contemporaneity. The fact that the artists realize themselves as „an integral part of the people” it most significant. That interconnection is expressed in their works through a new type of synthesis including traditional and contemporary means of expression. The non-normative character of the latter conditions the possibility to create a non-normative contact with the viewer as well. The results of the inquiry outline the imperative of the presence of folklore in contemporary artistic creation.

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