Authors

Kostina Daria A.
Metaphors of Revolution in the Work of the 'First Wave' Russian Émigré Artist Grigory Musatov

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (63) September, 2018

The article is devoted to two paintings created by the Russian émigré artist Grigory Musatov (1889-1941) in 1931 during his life in Czechoslovakia. Due to a number of circumstances, the creative work of this master, who received professional recognition in Prague in the interwar period, is little known to Russian art historians. In turn, the Czech scholars who touched upon the work of G.A. Musatov are familiar with his paintings The Road to Kolkhoz and The Boy with the Serpent, but still these pieces have never become the subject of a special analysis. This study focuses on the thematic and conceptual kinship of these works. The proposed interpretation of them as the artist's metaphorical comprehension of the October Revolution results is based on the analysis of these paintings from the perspective of their symbolic content in the context of Russian art of the first third of the 20th century.

Kostina Daria A.
THE UNLIVED PAST: GRIGORY MUSATOV'S WORKS FROM THE 1920s AND MASS PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (51) September, 2015

The article is devoted to the works that the Russian émigré artist Grigory Musatov produced during the 1920s. The text describes and analyses his specific artistic interpretation of the visual features of mass portrait photography. Grigory Musatov’s paintings and drawings are examined in the context of the general trend towards a creative apprehension of the phenomenon of mass-produced, portrait photography in Russian and Western European art of the first third of the 20th century.

Kostina Daria A.
PHENOMENA OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACES IN MEGACITIES

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (32) December, 2010

The author of the article describes specific features in the formation of cities in the vein of urbanistic processes during information era. Architects’ concepts are considered to identifying phenomena caused by the processes of globalisation and virtualisation. The author has identified the phenomenon of a transit space and the properties of transit-ness.