Open AccessThe Metamorphoses of Impressionism at the Turn of the Centuries
Author(s) -
Alexander I. Demchenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ikoni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-3095
pISSN - 2658-4824
DOI - 10.33779/2658-4824.2019.2.085-096
Subject(s) - expansive , decadence , romanticism , style (visual arts) , aesthetics , phenomenon , creativity , literature , space (punctuation) , history , art , philosophy , epistemology , psychology , linguistics , social psychology , materials science , compressive strength , composite material
The concept of the “Silver Age” is usually correlated with certain phenomena of the Russian artistic culture of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. However, it is absolutely clear that this was not a purely national phenomenon and it is appropriate to spread its “geography” onto analogous artefacts of the entire European space of that time. Upon close examination it turns out that many aesthetic components of the late 19th and early 20th century developed under the auspices of the “Silver Age”: late Romanticism, Symbolism, the so-called Decadence, the Moderne Style, etc., — everything which were characterized with brightly expressed personalized accents, individual-subjective predilections and various degrees of aesthetization of artistic creativity. The author of the article considers that similar assertions are also applicable in regard to many sides of Impressionism — one of the most influential artistic directions of these years, especially in its late stage. But first of all the article specifies certain questions of evolution of this direction and its substance, since we must frequently confront with an excessively expansive understanding of this conception.