The specificity of the formation of church art in Western Siberia in the end of the XX - XXI century. Project and murals in the temple in honor of the “Sign-Abalatskaya” icon of the Mother of God

Abstract

The study is devoted to the peculiarities of the development of monumental church painting in Western Siberia in the late XX – early XXI centuries. Tendencies in modern church art are shown on the example of the paintings of the lower church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Znamenie – Abalatskaya” in the city of Novosibirsk. The design and implementation in the interior of the temple, made by students of the Department of Arts.

Relevance of the topic due to the emergence of interest in the marked period of religious culture in general. As a consequence, it was the development of new artistic practice, based on the restoration of monuments of church architecture and the renewal of the Orthodox artistic traditions.

Monumental church painting, which took shape in the last decade of the XX century to the present, was a unique period of the revival and large-scale development of Orthodox monumental art. For three decades it has gone a long way, reaching a significant level in the artistic processes of national culture.