| Popis: |
The subject of this paper is the analysis of the portrait of the constructivist architect Andrei Burov, painted by Yuri Pimenov in 1928, and the identification of its place among the portrait images of cultural figures created by other artists of the Society of Easel Painters (OST): Alexander Deineka and Peter Williams. This portrait, as well as the author’s replica (1972) from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, is analysed in detail for the first time. The author finds the sources of the depicted items and draws parallels with the artist’s work of that time and that of his colleagues in the OST. The article also considers the creative path of Pimenov during the OST period and the architecture of constructivism as a sign of the new in his artworks of the late 1920s — early 1930s. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the context and facts related to the creation of the portrait and to come closer to a more complete understanding of the sources and plot motifs of the society. The main conclusion of the paper is that in the image of an architect, Pimenov encoded a whole layer of culture of the 1920s, whose representatives were characterized by an interest in world artistic trends, awareness of the world as a single whole moving towards progress, and the perception of humanity as standing on the threshold of grandiose and certainly positive change. |
