Abstract
The article discusses the specifics of understanding the plastic expressiveness of painting by A. Osmerkin, which manifested itself differently at different stages of the artist’s creative biography, determined by the sociocultural context of the 1920s – 1940s. The study revealed the aesthetic positions of the artist at an early and mature stage of creativity, reflecting priorities in the search for the plastic expressiveness of the painting. The figurative and stylistic features of his works created in different decades are considered; a comprehensive analysis of his aesthetic views and their reflection in the author’s picture of the world has been performed. In addition, the authors introduce into the scientific circulation the artist’s works from the museums of the Kropyvnytsky city, which were not previously considered in existing publications on the work of A. Osmerkin. The results of the study led to the conclusion that the artist paid great attention to the plasticity of color, with the help of which he built form and space, without taking the color composition from the task of the image. It was not the colorfulness itself that attracted spectators to the artist’s paintings, but precisely the harmoniously constructed color that conveys the beauty of nature in its individual state through the color ratio. In the post-revolutionary time, A. Osmerkin became a consistent realist, working in chamber genres, he was interested not so much in the plot as in solving plastic problems by means of impressionistic painting. At this stage, the artist strives for pictures in the most nonpainting genres – in still life, landscape, portrait, working in a peculiar style of quiet realism. Lyristic imagery of Osmerkin’s paintings puts him among the artists who poetically reflect the world.
Highlights
The latest trends in European art of the first third of the 20th century vainly sought to radical changes in the system of artistic expressiveness
The purpose of this article is to examine the specifics of understanding the plastic expressiveness of painting in the work of Alexander Osmerkin, which manifested itself differently at different stages of the artist’s creative biography, determined by the sociocultural context of the 1920s – 1940s
Osmerkin begins in the city of Elisavetgrad ( Kropyvnytskyi), where he was born in 1892
Summary
The latest trends in European art of the first third of the 20th century vainly sought to radical changes in the system of artistic expressiveness. The appeal to well-recognized academic forms did not prevent any artists from the search for plastic expressiveness of painting, they repeatedly tried to revive the pictorial language of their canvases and turned to the problems of picturesqueness, leaving aside the ideological component. A consideration of the plastic expressiveness of painting in art history hasn't been a priority. This problem was identified in 2015, at the Inter-Institute Seminar of Art Critics in Moscow, “The Nature of Plastic Sense. Malkova (2006) allow us to look from a different point of view at the problems of the plastic expressiveness of painting and discover how this category explains the author’s pictorial concepts of the 20th century. Osmerkin took a very special place, which has not been revised since the publications mentioned above
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