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Abstract
This article is devoted to landscape art of the painter Alexander V. Tkachenko (born 1931), one of the brightest representatives of the Soviet and Russian Far East graphic art. The main purpose of the author is to consider the creative achievements of the master in the landscape genre in the context of the general development of domestic painting of the second half of the twentieth century and our time. The main accent of the research is peculiarity of the master's artistic language, which allowed him to create landscape works elevating the Far Eastern landscape and representing one of the bright pages in the development of the domestic regional fine art and in the international arena of the adjacent territories. On the basis of the art history analysis of some landscape pieces relating to different periods of the master's creative heritage, the author studies the peculiarities of formation of stylistic features of the artist's art and comprehends the influence of the artistic and natural environment of the Far East on his creative outlook. The author considers main themes of the artist's landscape compositions, where the domestic Far East (devoted to the depiction of landscapes of the Russian Far East), the Near East and the Foreign Far East (depicting views of the nearby foreign territories of China and the Republic of Korea) are distinguished. The author analyses the peculiarities of the artist's creative method, notes the continuity of the academic realistic painting line and the new qualitative characteristics that he brought into the development of the landscape of the Far Eastern region of Russia, identifies their role in shaping the traditions of the Ussuriysk painting, representing a bright branch of development of the coastal visual arts. New facts of the painter's creative biography are introduced and generalized, where the painter's creative work in the development of artistic life of Primorye and Ussuriysk in particular is evaluated. Summarizing the achievements of A.V. Tkachenko in the landscape genre, which even today largely determine the artistic identity of the Russian Far Eastern landscape, dynamically introducing it into the foreign Far East, their role and importance in the development of the domestic regional art of the present is defined.
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