Keywords
Dagdangijn Amgalan, fine art, Mongolian People’s Republic, Ulaanbaatar, “Austere style”, national artistic tradition, Matrimonial Palace, Modernism,
How to Cite
Uranchimeg D., Yaylenko E. V. The art of Dagdangijn Amgalan: features of stylistic development and artistic content // The Art of Eurasia, 2023. № 4 (31). P. 192-205. URL: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2023.04.012.
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Abstract
This article investigates artistic legacy of Dagdangijn Amgalan, an outstanding Mongolian artist of the 20th century. Although he played a significant part in the development of Mongolian art, his oeuvre hasn’t been studied yet in a satisfactory way and hasn’t still been well-known for Russian readers. The main goal of this article consists in providing the solid scientific base for the systematization of a great number of facts and artworks connected to Amgalan. This new material has never been introduced to the scientific research in the Russian Federation. The article provides an overview of the whole development of Amgalan as a painter and designates individual stages in this process as well as their peculiar features in what concerns style and subject-matter. It also examines how Amgalan contributed to the dissemination of the principles of the “austere style” in Mongolian art as well as further development of its stylistic principles and content. It has also been demonstrated that Amgalan was an initiator of the revival of the vernacular artistic tradition in the art of the Mongolian People’s Republic. His main achievement in this sphere constitutes the inner decoration of the Matrimonial Palace in Ulaanbaatar. Nevertheless, at the same time, in the late 1970s Amgalan produced some paintings related to the concept of Modernism.
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