Russian cosmism

Cosmism initially developed in the second half of the 19th century as a philosophical school of thought in the humanities and scientific currents in Russia. The first Cosmists among the artists of the Russian avant-garde began to be constituted in 1923.

Philosophy and art flow

Famous representatives of the philosophy of the Russian cosmism are astrophysicist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Vladimir Vernadsky, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Nikolai Fedorov, Pavel Florensky and Alexander Tschischewskij.

On the initiative of Nicholas Roerich, Moscow 1920, visited an exhibition of young artists kosmistischer was organized in the United States, which served as an opportunity for the emergence of a group of artists Amara Wella, which was formed in 1927. Was in the manifesto of this group

"Our work, which is mostly intuitive, focuses on the discovery of various aspects of the cosmos -. Within the human countenance, in the countryside and playback abstract types of the inner life "

For conductor Petr Fatejew was elected, who spoke a strong impulse of the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra received. Together with Boris Smirnov - Russezki, Alexander Sardan, Sergei Schigolew and others they created an artistic modeling of the cosmos as a giant musical instrument, with which the whole earth is consistent. Ivan Kudryashov also showed his cosmic- abstract paintings in the exhibitions of the Society of Easel Painters (OST) in the mirror of Suprematism.

In the search for forms of expression of the creative development of the spirit, these artists applied to the models of the future people and the ideas of life on other planets. Heaven and Earth form in a unit and the man fits harmoniously in one.

The experiments of this group with futuristic approaches were canceled by the Stalinist regime very early. 1929, the last exhibition took place, and from 1930 began arrests of members, which led to the dissolution of the group.

Cosmos in the Art

A number of artists have also continued to respond to modern physical findings.

Robert Delaunay painted in 1912 in glorious colors Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon, their effect on the perception of color, he examined in the following years.

Joan Miró continued since the 1930s deals with the painting of cosmic objects. In Constellations (1940 ) one sees the sun, the moon, the stars and galaxies weightless and floating weightless in the void, connected by lines, which produce " constellations ". The first sculpture by the artist Oiseau solaire ( Sun Bird ) was born 1966. Uniquely are monumental ceramic walls and the colorful pictures, the red sun (1967) and The Blue Star (1972).

A boundless universe also employed Jackson Pollock. No. in 18 (1948) and Number One ( Lavender Mist ) ( 1959) with dynamically pulsating texture shows variable galaxies. His custom built in Drip -painting process composition Comet (1948 ) offers a figurative reference a silvery elongated tail.

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