The Russian Avant-Garde and the System of Archetypes. Demonstration Experience

Abstract

The article is devoted to a large-scale exhibition at the Primorsky State Art Gallery in Vladivostok, prepared by the State Tretyakov Gallery (curator Irina Kochergina), as well as the album-catalog of this exhibition. Consisting of more than fifty first-class works, mainly from the Tretyakov Gallery collection, it is interesting because for the first time in exhibition practice it correlates the figures of Russian avant-garde artists with the system of psychological archetypes developed by Carol Pearson. While some points are controversial, this experiment is very indicative. Firstly, it responds to the recent tendency to view the avant-garde through the prism of philosophical and natural-scientific concepts of the time. Secondly, an appeal to one of the popular theories allows us to solve another educational task — to involve the viewer in a dialogue with sophisticated art, which despite the catchiness of the Russian avant-garde as a national brand still remains alien and obscure to many people.

Keywords

• russian avant-garde
• archetype
• carol pearson
• m.f. larionov
• v.v. kandinsky
• k.s. malevich
• a.m. rodchenko
• n.s. goncharova
• l.s. popova
• o.v. rozanova
• m.z. chagall
• m.v. matyushin
• a.v. lentulov
• p.p. konchalovsky
• i.i. mashkov
• the state tretyakov gallery
• primorsky state art gallery