No. 1 (2) (2016): Art and Cultural Identity
In 1 (2) 2016 issue of “The Art of Eurasia” Journal you will meet different masters, both famous and not yet recognized, but, in our opinion, have great potential.
The issue opens with the rubric “Address to Readers”, where we, with great gratitude, give the floor to Anatoly Levitin, a painter, teacher, and professor known in our country and far beyond its borders.
In the heading “Eurasian Heritage” there are published studies of the Buddhist monastery complex Gandan in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), as well as the main stages of the great social, religious, philosophical and artistic life of the sculptor Zanabadzar, an outstanding personality of Mongolia in the second half of the 17th — early 18th centuries.
The “Folk Art of Eurasia” rubric presents Shirmel as the artistic style of Central Asia; materials of the first museum expeditions to the regions of the Altai Territory, which laid the foundation for the creation of a collection of local folk art; the rare art of making clay dolls and toys by the inhabitants of the Himachal state in the Himalayas; and little-known art forms associated with the ethno-botanical traditional knowledge of the mountain communities of India.
The section “Art of the 20th — 21st centuries” analyzes the poetics of the female image in the work of the leading Mongolian graphic artist Zorigt Uyanga. It also contains articles about graphic self-portraits of the world-famous Krasnoyarsk artist Andrey Pozdeev; about the work of Vladimir Favorsky on illustrating the Kyrgyz heroic epic "Manas"; about the formation of the Far Eastern school of landscape and the role of Karl Kahl; and finally, about the fine arts of modern Vietnam.
Read the reviews of exhibitions in the heading “Vernissage”: one of the large-scale art projects — the exhibition “Siberia — the Far East”; the exhibition of the academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, sculptor Dmitry Tugarinov is described; an exhibition of batiks by Tatyana Koltochikhina “From the beginning without the end”; “Calligraphics” — a unique exhibition of an unusual type of graphics by Andrey Mashanov;
VI Beijing Biennale “Memory and Dreams”, organized by the Chinese Federation of Literary and Artistic Associations, the Beijing Municipality and the China Artists Association.
In the heading “In storerooms and expositions of museums and art galleries” the article “Altai. Russia. Mongolia: on the 85th anniversary of the birth of the Honored Artist of Russia F. Torkhov”. The artist and public figure made a significant contribution to the contemporary art of Eurasia and did much to strengthen interstate and cultural ties between Russia and the Mongolian People's Republic.
Read about exhibition projects of the Russian Academy of Arts in the “Academy News” section.
