Экспрессионистские традиции в творчестве современных художников России и бывших союзных республик

Abstract

The paper analyzes the influence of the expressionist method on the painting of contemporary artists in Russia, as well as (to a greater or lesser extent) Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan. The exhibitions of recent years, thematic publics on art (on social networks) came to be the study`s initial material, then we are talking selectively about the work of individual authors. The research allowed for concluding: in modern fine arts, expressionism is distinguished by its unconditional “vitality” and the ability to assimilate with new trends; the “handwriting” of modern “expressionists” is characterized by the constant absence of chiaroscuro, often — the pretentiousness of the color scale; the theme of the spirit stifling in the gripe of the City, and the spirit of protest, pouring out into feminism or rejection of civilization (bourgeois / market), sometimes — aestheticization of the ugly, motifs of death and decay, sometimes — primitivism, childishness, gravitation towards the poster technique. However, today we are dealing with a “softened” version of expressionism: not always a pessimistic view of the artist's world, not always based on a pronounced rebellious beginning.