FEATURES OF PORTRAIT PAINTING BY ARTISTS OF KAZAKHSTAN IN THE 1970S AND 1980s
The article is devoted to the study of portrait painting of Kazakhstan in the 1970s-80s on the example of artists ‘ works, as well as the analysis of the General situation in the cultural life of this period of time. For the visual arts of Kazakhstan of this period, it became characteristic to appeal to various artistic styles of the past years. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the main mission of the generation of masters of the studied period was to establish the professional level of Kazakh artists, to enrich the concept of professionalism with a new perspective, in which the most important place is occupied by the consciousness of their own national uniqueness.