This issue No. 2 (29) of “The Art of Eurasia” Journal is dedicated to the contemporary Siberian fine art. The journal itself is published just a few days before the opening of a huge inter-regional exhibition “Siberia – 13” in Altai, in Barnaul. All types and genres of art will be presented here; viewers will be able to be acquainted with the work of artists from the Altai Krai, the Altai Republic, the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk regions, Novokuznetsk, Tyva, and Khakassia. Numerous bright discoveries in art are waiting for the audience and art critics. Anticipating this, our authors highlight the work of Siberian artists from different sides.
The section “Eurasian Heritage” presents modern approaches and digital technologies in the study of the art of the primitive world. Another study is devoted to the Kostroma school of icon painting and opens up new facets of this artistic phenomenon.
The section “Art of the 20th–21st centuries” includes articles about O.N. Loshakov, leader of the Shikotan group; one of the brightest representatives of “village realism”, the Chinese painter Lo Zhongli; about a master class in oil painting, held in 1956 by the Academician A.A. Mylnikov at the Wuhan South Central Professional Art School (now the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts); about the artist of the Leningrad underground V.Yu. Zabelin (Vik), Moldavian graphic artist Ya.A. Averbukh, the artist of the Russian emigration E.E. Klimov.