Art nouveau aesthetics in jewelry art of the capital and province at the turn of the XIX and XXI centuries
The article is devoted to the analysis of features of jewelry aesthetics of art Nouveau and its interpretation in the jewelry art of the capital and the province of the late XIX - early XXI centuries. The study is based on the actualization of aesthetic aspects of the dichotomy of the capital and the province in the national culture. And also actualization of representations about formation and development of stylistic system of a modernist style in jeweler art of the end of XIX - the beginning of XXI centuries. Aesthetic and technological principles of a jeweller art Nouveau in creativity of modern capital masters and provincial masters are considered. An important component of the author's contribution to the development of the theme is the analysis of the creative work of Yaroslavl master jeweler Nikolai Alexandrovich Nuzhin and justification of the creative method of Nikolai Nuzhin as a conceptual art Nouveau. The relevance of the study is due to the appeal to the poorly studied theme of art Nouzhin in the jewelry art and its consideration in the context of the cultural specifics of the capital and provincial loci, in particular, with regard to the jewelry art of the Yaroslavl region. In this study we initially proceeded from the notion that the art Nouveau style and its later interpretations in the European jewelry art poorly correlate with the mental categories of the capital and the province, and for the Russian jewelry art of art Nouveau and its stylizations these characteristics are extremely significant. Thus, in the system of Russian general cultural dichotomy «capital-provincial» there is a dichotomy of capital and provincial art. The former is characterized by high professionalism, skill, bright stylistic features and the desire for new trends. While the latter has a more traditional, conservative approach to aesthetic expression. But if the provincial architectural art nouveau has taken place, established itself, and even, in the most outstanding cases, has become an element of the territory's cultural brand, then the situation with art nouveau in jewelry art and its modern «citation» by Russian provincial masters seems quite different.