RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOTHIC AND ART NOUVEAU IN IVAN BILIBIN’S ILLUSTRATIONS FOR “VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL” Cover Image

İVAN BİLİBİN’İN “GÜZEL VASİLİSA” MASALI İLLÜSTRASYONLARINDA GOTİK VE ART NOUVEAU İLİŞKİSİ
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOTHIC AND ART NOUVEAU IN IVAN BILIBIN’S ILLUSTRATIONS FOR “VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL”

Author(s): Duygu Özakın
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Architecture, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Ivan Bilibin; fairy tale illustration; Slavic mythology; Art Nouveau; Gothic;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, relationship between Gothic and Art Nouveau in Russian painter and illustrator Ivan Bilibin’s illustrations is examined. Bilibin applicates Art Nouveau style that means “New Art” and characterized by serpentine, floral patterns and ornaments to illustrations for Russian folk tales. The study aims to reveal Gothic elements in Bilibin’s Art Nouveau interpretation while analyzing his illustrations for “Vasilisa the Beautiful” by Panofsky method. It is concluded that Gothic influences are seen as rhythm of repeating patterns inherited from Gothic architecture and as usage of mythologic sense of fear with dangerous images peculiar to Gothic literature.

  • Issue Year: 5/2016
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 1095-1114
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish