Unknown pages of N. A. Rusakov’s creation. The portrait of I. I. Nogtev (1936). The comparison of the model and the image

Authors

  • Galina Semenovna Trifonova Author

Abstract

The author continues research on the professional art of the Southern Urals.
The archive documents, literary works in various state and private funds,
and compositions are analyzed. All together they are sources of research on
creative works of prominent artists of the Southern Urals – artist N. A. Rusakov
(1888—1941) and engraver I. I. Nogtev (1886—1955). The pivot for creative works
comprehension and artists’ contact was the portrait of I. I. Nogtev painted by
N. A. Rusakov in 1936. The analysis of this portrait entailed the discovery of unique
connection of historical time of the first third of 20 c. and the art, the connection of
essential path of art development in the Southern Urals. The analysis enabled to
specify the problem of a genre “portrait of an artist” and reveal creative principles
as a fragment of monographic studies

Author Biography

  • Galina Semenovna Trifonova

    Associate Professor, History of Art and Cultural
    Studies Department, Candidate of Historical Sciences, South Ural State University (NRI), member of Artists’ Union of Russia, member of the Association of Art Critics All-Russian Public Organization of Art Historians and Art Critics. Research interests: national art, classical European art, artistic culture, creative works of artists from the Southern Urals, museum studies. The author of monographs, catalogues, albums and research papers on the above-mentioned topic

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Art History