No. 1-2 (2023): ART INNOVATION
In 01-02/2023 issue of the Art Innovation journal the authors investigated the history of contemporary art and design. The specialists discussed the personal collections of artists, the history and philosophy of fashion, Russian and foreign photography, and pacifist art.
The issue starts with an article by Mikhail Busev dedicated Pablo Picasso’s collection of works of fine art and sculptures. The researcher revealed the problem of the influence of Iberian and African art on the creative development of Picasso in the context of his activities as a collector.
Grigorii Shamrai studied the problem of brand DNA using the example of the Chanel Fashion House. The author analyzed its components in detail identifying the aesthetics and concepts of the famous brand. He explored Chanel’s most iconic designs. The researcher traced Fashion House evolution from the era of Gabrielle Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld.
Ida Shik examined the specifics of female images representation in the work of the American photographer Clarence John Laughlin in the context of Surrealist conceptions such as the marvelous, convulsive beauty, and black humor. The author emphasized that the photographer’s female images acquired a symbolic character. Clarence John Laughlin used them in the context of reflection on the philosophical and ethical problems of our time.
Irina Chmyreva offered the reader a comparative analysis of the creative biographies and artistic strategies of the leading Russian pictorialist photographers – Nikolay Andreev and Georgy Kolosov. She created a kind of dialogue between them. The article examined the famous works of pictorial photography masters and their approaches to creativity in the cultural context of the Soviet era.
Vasilina Spiridonova explored the problems of pacifist art using the example of the works of contemporary Russian artist Mayana Nasybullova. The author referred to her exhibition projects «Everything is Terrible» and «Monument to Memory». She considered them in the historical and artistic discourse of the 20th–21st centuries.
Ida Shik’s review of Irina Chmyreva’s book «The Lexicon of Russian Photography of the 20th–21st Centuries» introduced the reader to the peculiarities of the book’s structure and the author’s approach to interpreting the material.
The issue ends with the portfolio of contemporary authors Nikita Pirogov and Natalia Druzhinkina. Nikita Pirogov’s photographic series «Tears of My Mother» is a reflection on military conflicts and their consequences through the prism of Buddhist philosophy. Natalia Druzhinkina’s portfolio presents the author’s works in various techniques and genres such as classical oil painting and installation, floral still-lifes and abstract compositions. The theme of dialogue between modernity and the heritage of world culture made them the complete artistic statement.
