The correlation between the artistic form and the image in still lifes of the graphic artist Valentin Teplov

Abstract

The article explores the work of the Krasnoyarsk graphic artist, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Valentin Pavlovich Teplov. The emphasis is on a series of still lifes, which are considered in the following aspects. Firstly, in the context of studying the role of still life in contemporary art, its crisis nature associated with the lack of harmony between what is depicted and what it is done for. Secondly, the artist's work is studied from the standpoint of modern and classical approaches to the analysis of still life, its genre content, aesthetic and semantic component. Thirdly, the works of V.P. Teplov are presented as an example of the most successful and artistically substantiated decisions in the art of still life, both in terms of content and pictorial plan. The article analyses the artist's paintings from the point of view of the means of artistic expression used and their role in revealing the image and content. The author's conclusion concerns the importance of the structure of the still life, the correlation of objects, which provides a “dialogue”, and hence the semantic fullness of the picture.