A series of lectures and talks by A.K. Yakimovich "Pages of the history of world art. From the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century" Automatic translate

The Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts invites you to a course of open free lectures and talks by the academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexander Yakimovich “Pages in the history of world art. From the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century. "

Beginning of the course: February - April 2019.

Continuation of the course: October - December 2019.

Course completion: February - April 2020

Lectures and talks will be held on Thursdays in audience number 8 of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts (Moscow, Prechistenka, 21).

Lectures start at 17:00.

The first lecture will be held on February 14, 2019.

We invite everyone. Admission is free, without prior registration.

Alexander Klavdianovich Yakimovich - art critic, author of more than two hundred works on the problems of art history and contemporary art culture. Doctor of Arts (1998). Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2007). AIS Vice President (since 2002), member of the AIS Board. Researcher, theorist, popularizer, author of numerous publications on the problems of art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century begins to take stock and generalize his creative and scientific activities. The course summarizes all those books and articles on the history of art that have accumulated in the baggage of a scientist over 40 years of work

Themes of employment:

1. Introduction. The art culture of the New Age. “Fearless realism” as a principle of art. The fullness of being as an object of knowledge in a new art. An experiment as a way of thinking and a creative strategy. "Ontological Delight" as the basis of the artistic culture of the New Age.

2. The turning point from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Giotto and Masaccio. Big breakthrough in plastic: Ghiberti, Donatello, Jacopo della Quercia. The Franciscan picture of the world is the lever and support of a new culture. Intoxicated examination of complex reality - the discovery of a new art. The world as a riddle, a sight and a subject of contemplation

3. Tales, dreams, fantasies as a new reality. Uccello, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi - the first experiences of the "social taming" of art. Miraculous in the bowels of everyday life: the light-winged philosophy of Piero della Francesca. The “Spirit of History," Lyricism and the Charm of Everyday Life: Mantegna. The diverse Botticelli and the problem of creative autism. Signorell’s Anatomy of Suffering. Venetian wonders of Giambellino and Giorgione. Latitude of semantic registers of the Early Renaissance.

4. The Revolution of the Renaissance and its movement towards fearless realism. The new anthropological basis of culture: "restless man." The first generation of humanists: from Petrarch to Pico della Mirandola. From naive human worship to the dangerous insights of human destinies. Machiavelli’s fearless thought. New word Montaigne and Rabelais.

5. Titans of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci and the principle of "insatiable knowledge.”Chiaroscuro is a psychological tool of an artist-researcher. Michelangelo as an archetype of "dangerous innovator." A world on the brink of disaster and ruthless truths as an object of art. The phenomenon of experimentation of the High and Late Renaissance and its consequences.

6. Dutch art in search of "reverent ontology." Jan van Eyck and the parameters of the earthly paradise. Bosch’s eschatology between hell and heaven. The Brueghel Universe. From sarcastic anthropology to a new unity of infinite being. The Dutch phenomenon of “experimental religiosity”: from Adamites to pantheism.

7. The seventeenth century in the North and South. The freethinker Rembrandt and his Night Watch. The new reality of new art: a man in a vast world without reliable support. Courage without pathos: the Spanishness of Velazquez. The holiday of the elite is the first stage in his portrait art. Diagnosis of the elite - the final work of Velazquez. The ideology of the “Spanish world” and the philosophy of tolerance are a conflict of Spanish culture. The role of stoicism in life and art. The problem of the “dignity of the outcast” in portraits of people with disabilities and jesters.

8. The eighteenth century. The emancipation of the spirit. The Epicurean Revolution of Watteau. The foundations of his house in the era of rampant Enlightenment: Charden. The search for human principles between the ideological platforms of absolutism and enlightenment. The philosophy of “natural man”: the scale of alternative consciousness in anticipation of revolutionary anger. Classicism as a weapon and weapon of liberation. David - propagandist and diagnostician of the revolution

9. The transformation of Goya. From cute fun to anthropological apocalypse. Gogol in the face of the paradoxes of the era. The main discoveries of romanticism: the danger of high ideas. Goethe’s time diagnostics. Lessons of revolutions in the culture of the West and Russia. Realization of “lofty ideas” and the problem of “ideological fury” of the revolutionary era.

10. Small architectural excursion. New engineering construction and the "change of fathers" problem. Metalwork in the buildings of the USA and France. The first glimpses of new urbanism and its meanings. World exhibitions of the nineteenth century - bastions of ideological myths and laboratories of revolutionary principles. Engineering as a way of abandoning ideology and a way of approaching the "element of life".

11. From Courbet to Mans. The course to overcome ideology. Ontological foundations of impressionism. Art beyond moralizing: Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. Cosmological meanings in the art of Cezanne and van Gogh. Did French art wake up from ideological hypnosis?

12. Realistic painting of Russia. Ideological myths and truths of pictorial fabric. From Fedotov to Repin and Surikov. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov: the diagnosis of civilization. “Ontologism of writing” in ideological literature and ideologically charged painting.

13. Young Picasso and the creative philosophy of cleansing barbarism in Europe and Russia. "Spanish Fury" as a historical fact and as a tool of the artist. An insidious game with classic reminiscences: imitation as a parody. “Revival of primitiveness” in Russia and Europe (V. Prokofiev). On the meanings of cubism and the messages of primitivism.

14. The second version of the early avant-garde: intellectualism, philosophical, cultural tragedy of the young Kandinsky. "Another reality" in the thoughts of Nietzsche, Vladimir Solovyov, Rilke. The mythology of the "third advent" in culture and art. The transformed reality of abstraction in the perspective of the “philosophy of life”

15. Futurism in Russia and Italy. From the rebellion of Marinetti to the "criminal discourse" in the works of early Mayakovsky. Proud of all Zdanevich, or the prospects of a radical Great failure. The coastless revolution is a continuation of the “limitless ontologicality” of the New Age. Where did this Duchamp come from? Is the Vanguard the legal or illegal heir to the fearless realism of the New Age?