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The article analyzes the works performed by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, a Russian artist, whose artistic ascent took place at the turn of the 20th century while Russian intellectuals were actively engaged in identifying the specific features of Russian cultural identity. The article also provides a short description of the works by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin in the context of visual arts theory and performance. The analysis of the artist's works brings to light visual images of the Russian cultural identity that they ...

This article is dedicated to the question of finding conceptual basis of prehistoric architecture. The author tried to discern the reasons why it came to existence and the principles of its functioning, as well as developing architectural spaces of permanent structures. The remains of ancient constructions, made from mammoths’ skulls, tusks and larger bones dug into the soil, served as the subject of the research. “Bone” structures like these are the phenomena of the Paleolithic era. These monuments of prehis...

As a rule, the elucidation of the artistic image of decorative and applied art work is contributed by the ornamental dГ©cor it contains. During the study of material monuments of culture of the North Caucasus people it was revealed that local ornament is not just a decoration, but above all, is the unity of the semantic integrity of the creative origin of elements, each of which has the status of a sign - symbol. In the context of the stated problem, the author considers the study of artistic and expressive, and s...

Romanian Doina was inscribed on the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. Doina is a improvised, solemn and lyrical folkloric song, marking the essence of Romanian folklore. It can be sung in any social context, with or without instrumental accompaniment, with expressive ornaments. The emotional magnitude is very impressive. There are various regional types of doina, with different specific elements. Doina is representative for the peasantВ’s soul, expressing his most intense...

Religious art is representative of religions concept. Indian mausoleums, which were created during the reign of Mughal represent features of Indian Islam. Art analysis and philosophical interpretation of signs and images of Indian mausoleums helps to understand the unique features of Indian Islam. Religious Islamic art in India continues to have an impact on the recipients in the present. The art works of Islamic architecture can be studied as cultural texts. The ideals, values and standards of Islam are of archit...

The research focuses on the study and the identification of significant relationships between the observed peaks of the creative activity in such fields as art, music, literature, philosophy, science and technology. To establish the relationship between the development of cultural fields and development of society the structural-demographic theory was used, according to which a state goes through integration and disintegration phases during its existence. According to this, we propose the hypothesis that a phase o...

Up to the present moment the musical science explains the fundamental phenomena of harmony, such as sonance and tension, either by the abstract numerical logic in the frequency relations of sounds, or by the individual specifics of perception. And though the regularities of perception of sonance are well-known, their objective reasons exist only at the level of hypotheses, and the phenomenon of tension is still regarded only as a result of the perceptual effects. However, the above-mentioned phenomena are the refl...

The oeuvre of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was influenced by the major tenets of Symbolism of the end of the XIX century and German Expressionism of the beginning of the XX century, which allowed the painter to express the depths of meaning of life through visual signs. The objective of our research is to determine the artistic concept of the paintings “Melancholy”, “Separation”, “The Dance of Life” by Edvard Munch as representants of his major cycle of works “The Frieze of Life”. The methodol...

The architectural and art historical heritage of Salona, the capital city of the Roman province of Dalmatia, is enormous in scope. A considerable amount of data on the research sites in the city and serendipitous discoveries of its art objects, has however been lost. This study engages with the dispersed data in the literature and archives by an interdisciplinary approach that results in a synthesized work which includes previously unpublished documents and lost objects. The sources in this study are historical-li...

During the reign of Constantin Brancoveanu, remarkable achievements were recorded in architecture and painting. We shall meet the values of art and architecture in our country, in general, and especially those of the age of Saint Constantin Brancoveanu, which has left its mark not just on the territory in Muntenia, as it also penetrated in Transylvania, crossed the Romanian western boundaries into Serbia and went up to Bessarabia. Today, the art of Brancoveanu’s epoch is brought again to light by the monuments t...

The paper determines features of the Empire style in Russia before and after the Great fire of Moscow of 1812 during the war with Napoleon I. The Russian Empire style has generally three branches: Moscow, St Petersburg and provincial one with their specific features. The Imperial power established an elaborated system of model designs (more then a 1000 made by a team of architects of different nationalities) for a detailed typology of civil, military and private buildings and town planning elements made by the dec...

The contribution focuses on historical relationships of the development of vocal performance and vocal pedagogy in the second half of the 20th century, which is definitely based on the classical vocal performance and vocal pedagogy respecting the bel canto principle of singing. The Slovak vocal school fully respected the Italian bel canto principle of singing. The founding personality of the vocal pedagogy in Slovakia was a Czech violinist, composer, singer and teacher Josef Egem, who adopted the bel canto singing...

Today the name of Sebastiene Le Prêtre de Vauban is considered to be some kind of equivalent to the bastioned fortification itself. Of course his impact to the European fortification of the late XVII – early XVIII centuries was great. Nevertheless his ideas and his famous “three systems of fortification” were the result of the evolution of ideas that took place in France during the second half of the XVI - the early XVII centuries. Among the most prominent antecedents of Vauban there were J. Errard De Bar-l...

The article explores the roots of the national specific character of Spanish Baroque sculpture. The national specific features of Spanish sculpture are often treated in literature as a set of separate characteristics. However, Spanish sculpture of the 17-18th centuries is an integral phenomenon of a high artistic quality, and it cannot be explained by the influence of discrete factors. So, it is important to find a common reason which could account for the outstanding originality of Spanish sculpture. ?. V. ??r?zo...

The aim of this research is to determine models of contact between arts different by their nature and to offer a relevant classification. The last could aid to comprehend, how the principles of interaction of arts have changed in historical perspective. Consideration of this problem allows: 1) to propose a new approach for studying of correlations between different arts; 2) to establish ontological correspondences between arts of the same epoch; 3) to develop a method of analysis of means of expression in temporal...