Abstract
The article presents the results of a philosophical and art study of works of European and American pictorial art of the 19th century, in which artists, using various methods (personal expeditions and travels, based on drawings from diaries of polar explorers and photographs, discovering a nature similar to the North nature in an accessible environment etc.), create an image of the Arctic and the North, as well as images of people involved in the study and development of the northern expanses of the Earth. The research was conducted on the basis of the study of paintings by such artists as K.D. Friedrich, W. Bradford, F.E. Church, J. Buck, E.G. Landseer, B. Riviere, J.M. Swan, S. Pierce and H.Yu.L. Portman. Based on the results of the study it was concluded that the Arctic was a source of previously unseen images (icebergs, animals — Inhabitants of the northern expanses, etc. attracted special attention of artists) in the visual culture of the 19th century; as well the Arctic was the source of ideas about the mystical secrets of the universe since the main impulse for attention to Arсtiс from the side of artists in the 19th century became mysteriously (at that time) disappeared expedition of John Franklin.
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