title: The Art of Nikolai Estis in the Soviet Abstract Painting of 1950s-1980s
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metadata.value: Brut, Sorin
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T20:01:25Z
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T20:01:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Brut, Sorin. “The Art of Nikolai Estis in the Soviet Abstract Painting of 1950s-1980s”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 13, no. 4 (2023): 664–684. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.404 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44989
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metadata.value: The work of the abstract artist Nikolai Estis is considered for the first time in the context of the
  Soviet version of abstract expressionism, which began to form during the Khrushchev thaw.
  The author analyzes the conditions, causes and sources that influenced the emergence of interest
  in abstractionism among a number of Soviet artists in the late 1950s, as well as the features
  of the forming of the abstract manner of Nikolai Estis. For the first time, a comparative analysis
  of the conceptual foundations and solutions of the works of Estis and other representatives
  of Soviet abstract expressionism such as Vladimir Nemukhin, Lidia Masterkova, Lev Kropivnitsky,
  Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko is carried out. The work of Estis is also compared with the
  works of Jackson Pollock that are consonant with him. The process of formation of Nikolai
  Estis as an abstract artist was significantly different from the folding of the abstract manner
  of his older contemporaries. Estis went to abstract painting gradually and wrote the first completely
  abstract works already in the 1970s. Accordingly, the meanings of abstract art associated
  with the period of the Khrushchev thaw affected his painting only partially. The works of
  Estis of the 1970s are the closest to the canvases of Vladimir Nemukhin and Lev Kropivnitsky
  of the 1950s and 1960s, but they also have significant differences. In the 1980s, the artist’s style
  changed and became closer to some of the early works of Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko and the
  paintings of Jackson Pollock. At the same time, the works of the Moscow abstract artist remain
  original. The ideas of the work of Estis and the Soviet artists under consideration are in many
  ways close. They are associated with an attempt to escape from the everyday point of view and
  display the hidden device of reality. The study shows that the work of Nikolai Estis fits into the
  general line of development of the Soviet version of abstract expressionism. At the same time,
  in line with this direction, the painter managed to develop an individual manner.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nikolai Estis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art of the twentieth century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet unofficial art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: abstract painting
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: abstract expressionism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lyrical abstraction
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: automatic writing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Khrushchev thaw
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: formal and stylistic analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conceptual analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Art of Nikolai Estis in the Soviet Abstract Painting of 1950s-1980s
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metadata.value: Article
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