UDC 347.782
DOI: 10.36871/hon.202401050
Authors
Yulia A. Nepriyatel,
Institute of Humanities of the Altai State University, Barnaul, 656015, Russian Federation; Altai State Institute of Culture, Barnaul, 656015, Russian Federation
Abstract
The article describes the national peculiarities of animal depiction in the primitive, pagan and Christian periods before the formation and heyday of the classical animalistic genre in Russia (XVIIIth – XIXth centuries). To achieve the purpose, in addition to classical research methods in art criticism, a systematic approach was used, as a result of which a research model was created and its changes in different periods were traced. The article analyses the influence of worldview on animalistic patterns created and duplicated from century to century. As a result, such components of the worldview as the features of eidetic memory of primitive man, aspiration to group identification, religious beliefs, vital and practical knowledge and value systems determined by social, ethnic and political factors are revealed. The analysis of changes in animal images in Russian art from the Paleolithic to the formation of Christianity shows that the forms of animalistic patterns are closely related to the peculiarities of the worldview of specific people (social groups). In conclusion, examples of the use of animalistic patterns in modern visual art are given (using the example of Altai art).
Keywords
culture, animalistic genre, systematic approach, pattern, spiritual and material culture, animals
