Maria Lizogub’s painting and tendencies in Women Art in Kazakhstan Authors D.S.Sharipova

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of Women Art in Kazakhstan of the XX century. The analysis of the works of Maria Lizogub allows researcher to describe the specific nature of Kazakh women's painting. Analyzing the personality of artist, her creative path, author reveals the style of the works and their importance for the development of national tendencies in art. The artist was able to overcome the barriers of gender inequality declaring herself as the leading representative in the art of Kazakhstan. At the same time, making an accent on the woman’s huge spiritual potential, she comprehended her as a keeper of hearth and home and the patriarchal way of life. This duality consists in the issue of identification processes when the representation of female interacted with ethnic and cultural self-determination.