Станковизм как канон и его преодоление в живописи Общества станковистов
abstract
This article aims to outline the range of ideas the OST members had about canonical easel painting and to show how the artists creatively interacted with these ideas in their practice. The paper is based on a selection of paradigmatic as well as little-known OST artworks and archival materials. Using formal analysis on one hand and historical analysis on the other hand, it is possible to demonstrate that the OST artists based their work on a combination of opposite technical approaches. The purpose of this research is to clarify the nature of OST art for which there was much hope in the 1920s and that subsequently became the foundation for the work of the post-war artists.
Keywords: Project Method – Dynamics • Abstraction • Museum of Painterly Culture • VKHUTEMAS • Tangible forms • Easel Painters’ Society • Non finito • Statics • Compositional axes • Easel painting • Formula similarity