Ideas and techniques of symbolism in the unoffi cial art of the 1960s-1980s
The appeal to ideas and techniques of Symbolism at the end of the XX century in creative work of artists of unoffi cial art between the 1960s and 1980s is connected with fatigue of advocacy of socialist realism. Symbolism was a refl ection of spiritual and psychological energy and was considered as a unique and independent period at the turn of XIX-XX centuries, which created its own system of artistic images and picturesque techniques. Symbolists turned to the past because of understanding the impossibility to change life. Representatives of nonconformism interpret the main ideas of symbolism, placing them in the context of their time. Reality remains the main element for them, but serves as an expression of new ideas. The article provides the analysis of creative method of artists of "Arefj ef’s Circle", the concept of symbolism in painting of Gennady Ustyugov and Dmitry Plavinsky. The ideas of symbolism get dissemination among representatives of the unoffi cial art of Saratov