Keywords
Vladimir Favorsky the artist, epic «Manas», the theory of drawing and book illustration,
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Gribonosova-Grebneva E. V. Vladimir Favorsky. Epic style. Kirghiz series of drawings // The Art of Eurasia, 2016. № 1 (2). P. 100-109. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2016.01.009.
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Abstract
The work of V.A. Favorsky on the Kirghiz heroic epos is presented in this article. There is a demonstration of his artistic and theoretical approaches to the graphic arts and books illustration in the series of these drawings. The artist goes to Kyrgyzstan for the deep insight into the essence of the epic work. His drawings have not only aesthetic and ethnographic value. His theory of graphic appeared there, when a white field of paper is taken as a white space, and the artist’s pencil became similar to a cutter of a sculpture. The space of the white paper hangs on the drawings strokes. The epic nature of the narrative led to the monumentality of the images and compositions of the illustrations. There are artist’s theoretical thoughts about the connection of the multi-temporal conditions in the works of art, the role of contour and spot.
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