Keywords
Sergey Kalmykov, art, painting, avant-garde, creation, Patmos island, John the Theologian, Velimir Khlebnikov, Robert Lax,
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Chudinovskaya T. G. “On the Island of Patmos”: the hermit Sergey Kalmykov // The Art of Eurasia, 2021. № 1 (20). P. 76-87. URL: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2021.01.006.
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the work of Sergei Kalmykov, a Russian artist, illustrator, decorator, and writer. His art career started in the 1910s in Saint-Petersburg and later he called himself as “the last avant-garde of the first draft”, being aside of the mainstream of the development of Russian art. His free art was like a diary, like an endless dialog with himself. Each of his paintings from this monologue is a fragment tear out from one whole. The author interprets the painting “On the Island of Patmos” on the basis of an interdisciplinary approach that combines the principles of art history, cultural studies and mythopoetic analysis of a work of art. The study shows how complex his 'web' of creating thinking is and how it unexpected and deeply intertwined in one cultural field with other artists (Velimir Khlebnikov, Robert Lux) and even with religious images of almost two thousand years ago (John the Theologian).
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