A holiday in still lifes of naive artists: exhibition experience at the beginning of the 21st century

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the works of naive Altai artists — paintings in the genre of still life, selected during the expedition trips of 2000–2002. The author reviewed the expedition materials, performed an analysis of the works included in the exposition of the 2002 exhibition “Naive Still Life”, revealed and presented the peculiarities of the pictorial language and semantic retranslation of the holiday theme in the still lifes of the Altai naïve artists. The article describes the technical details and methods of work of amateur painters, the reasons and circumstances of the authors' appeal to artistic creation, the specifics of the worldview of naive artists and its reflection in the context of the painting.

Keywords

• наивное искусство
• натюрморт
• образ
• праздник
• naive art
• still life
• image
• holiday