SYMBOLIC SPASE IN THE WORK OF M.S. OMBYSH-KUZNETSOV ON THE EXAMPLE OF WORKS FROM THE CYCLE « CLOSED PAINTINGS»

Abstract

The article examines the later work of Novosibirsk artist Mikhail Sergeyevich Ombysh-Kuznetsov and analyzes individual works from the cycle “Closed Paintings”. This cycle traces the polemic with the political and socio-social life of the new, post-Soviet space, in which traditional themes suddenly turned out to be unclaimed, and akin to “paper architecture”, impracticable in reality. Written outside the social order, “Closed paintings” reveal an increase in metaphorical sound, a multifaceted reading of the subject image. The main visual and motivating motive is the “wrong side” of the artist’s workflow, packed canvases. The method of creating a “illusion” allows M.S. Ombysh-Kuznetsov to reflect on uncreated paintings, and,

further developing the pictorial motif, turning the “Closed paintings” from one side to the viewer, opening the canvases, examining the textures, giving them different emotional expressiveness, semantic subtext.