НАРОДНИТЕ ОБИЧАИ ПРЕЗ ПОГЛЕДА НА БЪЛГАРСКИЯ ХУДОЖНИК ОТ 20-ТЕ ГОДИНИ НА ХХ В.
FOLKLORE CUSTOMS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BULGARIAN ARTIST FROM THE 1920’S

Summary/Abstract: The decade of the 1920s was undoubtedly reproductive for Bulgarian fine art in many ways. Having returned from abroad and “immersed” in European culture, many Bulgarian artists bring to their homeland the courage to create new and supranational art. Experiencing the ferocity of the First World War, many of the same artists who had been mobilized to the front line, in the following decade of the 1920s, turned their attention to the “native,” creating a much-needed consolidation of community in times of national disaster. In addition to the transformation of folklore myths and legends, characteristic of the symbolism in Bulgarian art, the study of the “native” also develops in the consideration of traditional folk customs, looking into the life and the celebration of the Bulgarian village, which is increasingly losing its national image – to replace the leotard with a balton and the breeches with trousers and become part of the society of modern Europe. Many artists capture in their paintings the disappearing images of lazarki, the “Butterfly” custom, kukeri, koledari, survakari, weddings and other moments of the Bulgarian ritual calendar.The present work traces both the ethnogenesis of the customs depicted in the paintings, as well as the specifics of their reification, the specifics of the folklore area to which they belong, and their reflections on the idea of “native art” both from the 1920s and in the next decade, when the look at folklore-ethnographic imagery pays attention to different accents, but always in search of the national tradition.

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