The border of spiritual and art in Gennady Svirin’s heritage Cover Image

Граница духовного и художественного в наследии Геннадия Свирин
The border of spiritual and art in Gennady Svirin’s heritage

Author(s): Galina Vladislavovna Varakina
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Recent History (1900 till today), Sociology of Religion
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: «severe style»; spirituality; Russian intelligentsia member; «silent graphics»;

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the life and works of the Moscow artist Gennady Svirin whose creative heritage acts as a peculiar mirror of history of domestic culture of 1960—2000. Presented is the fate of the Russian intelligentsia member, the carrier of special mentality, with its characteristic of love to the Fatherland, the people, simple life, inherent values. The article contains a bibliographic part and a creative portrait, being the unique material constructed on personal contact of the author with the artist, and the current priest. In the research the current problem of the spiritual beginning in art rises and the important question of interference of culture and the personality is raised.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 82-95
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian