The Rendering of the Secession in Haralampy Tachev’s (1875–1941) Decorative Painting Cover Image
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За облика на сецесиона в декоративната живопис на Харалампи Тачев (1875–1941)
The Rendering of the Secession in Haralampy Tachev’s (1875–1941) Decorative Painting

Author(s): Milena Georgieva
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The modern Secession movement in Bulgaria’s decorative arts, book illustrations, applied graphic art and especially, in architecture has a relatively rich tradition. More problematic is the movement’s occurrence in painting, which was influenced by various European arts at the turn of the twentieth century. The easel paintings by one of the earliest Bulgaria’s decorators, Charalampy Tachev, are definitely associated with the decorative painting and its genesis in this country. This paper traces the reasons for the earliest occurrences and the character of this genre of painting in Bulgarian art using unknown examples of his oeuvre, commenting on the hybridism of decorative painting, its allegorism and the use of various devices, borrowed from designs of stained glass, mosaics, pottery but applied to easel painting as a painting genre. The paper seeks to prove that the hybrid type of ‘decorative’ painting has been an attempt at modernising Bulgarian painting by using the style of the Secession movement, developing this assumption against a broad social and artistic backdrop.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 64-74
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Bulgarian