ОТ ПОЭТИКИ МИФА К ПРОСТРАНСТВУ ТВОРЧЕСТВА: ТУЙААРА ШАПОШНИКОВА
FROM MYTH POETICS TO CREATIVITY SPACE: TUYAARA SHAPOSHNIKOVA

Summary/Abstract: The artistic process is considered in the paper as one of the methods of reproduction, representation, translation, and transformation of ethnic mythological meanings and symbols, as well as their adaptation to the new conditions of multicultural existence. Tuyaara Shaposhnikova, one of the brightest representatives of contemporary fine arts of Yakutia, creates works that are characterized by the associativity and polysemy by combining the methods of the European art schools and traditional techniques of folk creativity. The works of the artist are permeated with symbols and metaphors of the national traditional culture. The modern author creates a cycle of colorful lithographs based on the plots of oral historical legends dedicated to Elley, the cultural hero and first ancestor of the Sakha people. The graphic artist is attracted to his image expressing the family power due to its symbolic potential. The myth is naturally included into the structure of engravings through the quotes of folklore plots and the expressions of cultural and historical archetypes. T. Shaposhnikova has developed her own style based on the motifs of folk art and folk traditions of the Yakuts. Her works are characterized by elegant decorativeness of the general solution related to the use of geometric ornaments, symmetrical or balanced structure of the composition, flatness, and conventionality of the picture. It is concluded that the fine art of Yakutia undergoes a material process of adaptation to the perception by other cultures, thereby overcoming the isolation and one-sidedness of folk images and motifs and revealing the semantic unity of human cultures.

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