To the Issue of the Artistic Image of Vyborg, of Monrepos Park and the Environs in the Finnish Painting of 1899 to 1926
The image of the city of Vyborg in Finnish painting of the period between 1899 and 1926 is an urban or rural landscape. At the beginning of the 20th century Vyborg's rural landscape flourished. Finnish artists enjoyed to depict it in the form of idyllic natural paintings. The urban landscape reflected their admiration over the medieval city. Besides, the artists «went inside» the city and wrote not only the ceremonial Vyborg but also intimate courtyard views. The paintings of this trend are mythological and symbolic. In works of Finnish masters one building (Vyborg Castle, Round Tower, Clock Tower) could symbolize the whole city. In addition to the medieval Vyborg Castle - the symbol of the city of Vyborg painters of the period of 1899-1926 also found other attractive objects of the city environment, and their compositions expanded, became more interesting, panoramic and covered areas of Vyborg Fortress surroundings. Painting acquired more of internal movement. Picturesque images of the urban environment of the period of 1899-1926 related only to the area of the Old Town or Vyborg Fortress. Artists were also interested in nature, but these works were not preserved. Modern and its trends - symbolism, impressionism, expressionism predominate in the works of that time.