Iconological Analysis of Contemporary Artistic Creation (from the Experience of Making Creative Portraits of Bobruisk Artists)
Painting and drawing techniques are tools for artists to translate their aesthetic experiences, ideas and emotional states into their works. Filling works with content, meaning and original intellectual and emotional experience enables the author to cross the line between art and craft in a particular work. Artistic creation is one of the ways of self-expression, and iconological analysis can reveal the extent of an author’s individuality, their personal qualities and the degree of their interest as an interlocutor for art historians and viewers. This article presents the experience of iconological research of the work of a number of artists who have a greater or lesser degree of subjectivity, that is, a connection to the founding principles of modernism. The techniques and their sequence in the work carried out are suggested, the dependence of the ongoing process on the study of the personality of the object is substantiated, and the use of many concepts and categories from the philosophical sciences, cultural studies and psychology in the method is highlighted. A reference to the nature of the artist’s thinking in the course of research and revealing their aesthetic experience are substantiated. Attention is paid to the division of creativity into periods, the dependence on external and internal circumstances is highlighted. A necessary part of the article is an analysis of the categories of symbolism used by each author.