Man has long dreamed of flying. He dreamed of conquering the sky, and later, when it finally became clear that the Earth was just a grain of sand among myriads of planets, man dreamed of conquering space. And not just conquer, but also learn something new on distant planets, and also share your knowledge with the inhabitants of those planets.
Here is a typical picture Soviet artist Taira Salakhova. "To you, humanity!" 1961
Interestingly, the painting was first exhibited on April 12, 1961, just on the day of the first manned flight into space.
The flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space inspired people to new achievements and new discoveries. And of course, this flight could not help but inspire Soviet artists.
A. Deineka "Conqueror of Space"
In A. Deinek’s painting, the conquest of space is already a familiar thing for people. Before one rocket has time to take off, the next one is ready to fly.
G. Golobokov "Space workers"
For G. Golobokov, a person working directly in space is already an everyday occurrence.
Posters from the times of the USSR called on young people to become a worthy successor to the first space explorers.
The space theme was also used by artists in everyday life.
You can still find preserved “cosmic” mosaics on city streets. Like this one:
But this mosaic decorates underground pedestrian crossings in my city:
And it was a surprise for me to discover that there are Palekh boxes with paintings on a space theme.
This is a microscopic part of those works, the creation of which was inspired by their creators carried out Soviet man dream of flying to the stars.
Nowadays, you can often hear the opinion that all these dreams were stupidity and that you should have dreamed about something else. Not about great achievements, but about small material happiness. A world in which people increasingly began to pray to His Highness Consumption - in it, this world, it seemed that the dream of space and flight would die. And today’s children don’t dream about this at all. Some fashionable gadget is the ultimate dream modern child, many say.
But is this true?
Is the world of the stars, to which their grandfathers paved the way, really alien to our children?
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We prepared this article based on a lecture given by Ksenia Podlipentseva, art critic, curator art projects, as part of the Library Night 2018 festival.
Space is a theme that worried artists in different eras, but, perhaps, it was most uniquely represented in cosmism, futurism and suprematism.
Cosmism - a special phenomenon of the first half of the 20th century. Nikolai Fedorov is considered the founder of Russian cosmism, who created the plan for the so-called “ common cause" According to Fedorov’s ideas, humanity needs to unite all efforts in order to achieve immortality and explore space.
Of course, we can say that the idea of immortality goes back to Orthodox tradition, but there is a significant difference. First of all, Fedorov spoke about the immortality of not only the soul, but also the body. Moreover, the “immortals” also had to take care to revive everyone who had ever lived before. Since this would sooner or later lead to overpopulation of the Earth, Fedorov assumed that by that time people would have already reached such a level of knowledge that they would be able to move to other planets, although at that time, of course, there was no technical equipment for space flights yet there wasn't.
In addition to Fedorov, this direction was also developed by Sergius Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. And from the point of view of painting, the most famous cosmist was Nicholas Roerich, who turned to the genre of philosophical landscape.
First of all, this is a “generalized” landscape; there is no emphasis on the individual features of a particular area. No less important feature is light: the light in the picture is not so much a phenomenon physical world, as a marker of the artist’s spiritual state. Finally, the sky always stands out in Roerich’s canvases: even the mountains take the shape of clouds or resemble other celestial objects.
People in Roerich’s paintings, as a rule, are not located in the center, that is, they are not the main characters, although one cannot say that they are “crushed” by the endless sky: rather, all the elements of the picture are in harmony, because the main idea of the artist’s work is harmony man and the Universe.
Perhaps, the recognition of Gagarin, who described his flight into space as follows, can be considered a high assessment for Roerich:
“The rays shone through the earth’s atmosphere, the horizon became bright orange, gradually turning into all the colors of the rainbow: blue, indigo, violet, black. Indescribable range! Like in the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.”
An equally significant direction at the beginning of the last century was futurism : having originated in Italy, it most loudly declared itself in Russia, becoming one of the most radical phenomena of the avant-garde. Futurism considered itself the herald new era, glorifying, however, not so much the future as the rapidly developing present of factories and machines.
The Budutlyans, the first group of futurist writers, more than once in their work turned to phantasmagoric images of the conquest of the Universe for that time. However, in futuristic painting the cosmic motif was still not the leading one. The most striking examples Here we can name “Emptiness” by Natalia Goncharova, a work written during the period of her passion for non-objective painting, and a series of paintings “Space”.
Despite all the aggressiveness and self-confidence of futurism, by the beginning of the First World War it began to slowly fade, splitting into various movements and giving way to other areas of art.
Suprematism associated, first of all, with its creator - Kazimir Malevich. And of course, the most famous painting, associated with the name of this artist, is “Black Square”, an absolutely unique thing in terms of quantity existing interpretations. During this period, Malevich abandoned objectivity, declaring that painting should express not the object, but the artist’s feeling from the object. In other words, Malevich called for abandoning the “intermediary” of form and painting sensation.
The painting shows a clearly defined black square bordering a white background; It must be taken into account that the work is usually displayed on a white wall. Imagine in your mind how white background the canvas merges with the white background of the surroundings, and the square itself moves further and further away, gradually turning into a black dot... There is no point in looking for a special plot or another picture in the “Black Square”, supposedly hidden under a layer of paint. Essentially, “Black Square” is an attempt to graphically represent the infinity of the Universe.
Evgeniy Kovtun, art critic
from the article ““Victory over the Sun” - the beginning of Suprematism”
The Suprematist method consisted in the fact that Malevich looked at the earth as if from the outside, the inner “spiritual” universe suggested this look to him, and the unshakable canons of space construction immediately collapsed. In Suprematist easel works, the idea of “up” and “down”, “left” and “right” disappears - all directions are equal, as in outer space. The space of the picture is no longer subject to gravity (up-down orientation); it has ceased to be geocentric, that is, a “special case” of the universe. Arises independent world, closed in itself, possessing its own field of cohesion-gravity and at the same time correlated as an equal with the universal world harmony.
The main element in Malevich’s paintings is the suprems (from the Latin supremus - highest), geometric shapes, drawn in isolation from the ground, reflected the artist’s idea of a cosmic city, a complex freely floating in the air, the creation of which would be possible thanks to future scientific and technological achievements.
The cosmic theme was developed more specifically by one of Malevich’s favorite students, Ilya Chashnik, who considered Suprematism “a worldview of non-objective, natural and cosmic structures.” In his very famous work“Red circle on a black surface” can be guessed as a planet in endless outer space and a space station located next to it, although we are still talking about a Suprematist composition. Interestingly, this picture can often be found on the covers of science fiction books.
Of course, the space theme is not limited to the listed areas: look at the bizarre “social futurism” that depicted a bright future for the exploration of other planets and contacts with extraterrestrial beings. And although the 21st century has brought new, unprecedented opportunities for studying the Universe, it is worth recognizing that in the last century the topic of space caused much more excitement - at least in art.
Painting makes it possible to see the uncreated, to place the gaze at a point where there has not yet been a camera, so it is not surprising that the theme of space is quite well represented in it. This publication is by no means a review of all the artists who depicted space, but rather a run through the milestones through the prism of my taste.
Artist Anatoly Muschenko
It is unlikely that you will be able to find the first “space artist,” but the origins of this genre were clearly the science fiction illustrators of Jules Verne. “From the Earth to the Moon” and “Around the Moon” were read by future pioneers of astronautics, and, launching their rockets, they could remember the picture of the epic, albeit unrealistic, shot of the Columbiad.
In the 1920s in the USSR there was a group of cosmist artists “Amaravella”, but they were inspired mainly by the ideas of the Roerichs, Blavatsky, Ciurlionis and the cultures of the East, so they painted all sorts of vague mysticism. It is unlikely that Sergei Shigolev’s painting “Work in Space,” painted in 1927, depicts real people operating in real space.
Shigolev's fate was sad, but other representatives of his generation managed to do more. Chelsea Bonestell (7 years older than Shigolev) became a beacon in painting for Americans who dream of space. His illustrations appeared in magazines starting in the mid-1940s and were used in the 1949 book “Conquest of Space,” which was devoured by boys amazed by the Soviet satellite.
10 km above the pole of the Moon,
Little satellite
Yuri Shvets worked in the USSR. He worked more for cinema, as a production designer, and his work is visible in Klushantsev’s wonderful films, but you could also come across his paintings.
Alas, in reality, 1996 was marked by completely different events
Orbital space station launch pad
Then came the turn of artists who, in addition to their fantasies, saw space flights directly. Paul Culley (official website), for example, was the only artist invited to document the process of putting on spacesuits for the Apollo 11 astronauts before launch. In addition, he painted pictures and actively drew for postage stamps.
Neil Armstrong
"Power"
The young artist Anastasia Prosochkina has already achieved noticeable success. Her work combines an artistic eye and attention to technical details(Anastasia consults with industry workers). The original style is popular; paintings were commissioned by both Roscosmos and private space companies.
Anastasia’s project to produce a space calendar is ending on the Planet crowdfunding platform, and five times the required amount has already been collected. I'm glad that the idea of hanging a calendar on your wall for next year with space drawings is also interesting to the general public.
In addition to the above links to artists’ websites, a huge and unique collection of space art has been collected by the public