Open AccessThe Opera “Victory over the Sun” as the Crucial Artistic Event of Malevich’s School (UNOVIS)
Author(s) -
Tatiana V. Kotovich
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ikoni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-3095
pISSN - 2658-4824
DOI - 10.33779/2658-4824.2019.4.045-052
Subject(s) - victory , opera , meaning (existential) , subject (documents) , possession (linguistics) , art , centennial , aesthetics , visual arts , literature , history , philosophy , epistemology , law , political science , linguistics , archaeology , politics , library science , computer science
February 2020 will mark the centennial of the UNOVIs, the school of Malevich, the Vitebsk association of the Asserters of New Art, a unique attempt of collective artistic thinking. They were bellicose in their arrow-headed motion, in its aggressive stance, in its effectual rhythm, in following the program, in their possession of young arms – the energy of sincere faith. The evening of February 6, 1920 featured a crucial event in the transformation of the Vitebsk artistic school, a significant subject in its history and, most importantly, the meaning-bearing phenomenon in absorbing the Vitebsk artistic milieu. The author of the article examines the creation of the Vitebsk version of the futurist opera “Victory over the Sun” as a starting position of creature of a new form of artistic association, as well as the forms of Kazimir Malevich’s initial actions in Vitebsk, as an assertion of the center of an entire system of formation, direction and artistic utterance.