Title of the article:

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SACRAL SYMBOLS OF ANCIENT SLAVS IN THE ARCHITECTURAL DECOR OF THE WESTERN SIBERIA`S CITIES. THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19^TH – EARLY 20^TH CENTURY

Author(s):

Alla N. Gumenyuk

Larisa V. Chuyko

Information about the author/authors

Alla N. Gumenyuk — PhD in Arts, Associate Professor, Omsk State Technical University, Prospekt Mira St. 11, 644050 Omsk, Russia. E-mail: info@omgtu.ru 

Larisa V. Chuyko — PhD in Arts, Associate Professor, Omsk State Technical University, The Institute of design and technologies, Krasnogvardeyskaya St. 9, 2 bldg., 644099 Omsk, Russia. E-mail: idit@omgtu.ru

Section

History of Arts

Year

2019

Volume

Vol. 52

Pages

pp. 232–242

Received

May 24, 2018

Date of publication

June 28, 2019

Index UDK

7.01+725

Index BBK

85.113(2)

Abstract

Traditions of the ancient Slavic ornament were widely used in domestic folk and professional art at the turn of the 20^th century. A household carving — being one of the most important parts of the popular urban culture — embodied motives of a national ornament in various interpretations. On the basis of once canonical sacral symbols master-carvers created complex decorative compositions on all basic constructive and decorative elements of the wooden houses — pediments, friezes, constructive seams and frames of apertures. As the author notes the household carving of the Western Siberia`s cities developed within the mainstream of recognizable patterns: solar signs, signs of Earth, water, the World tree and plants, yet at the same time they vary depending on professionalism and creative potential of a master. It was also stylistic architectural scenery which, to an extent, affected the interpretation of certain decorative elements, such as rectangles and rhombuses. As the paper highlighted the Old Slavic ornamental motives are to be found in a decor of stone buildings as evidenced by unusual images reminding of pagan ideograms. One of such unique monuments revealed is the four-storey revenue house of A. G. Mikhaylov in Omsk (1915–1916, arch. L. A. Chernyshev) — a large landowner that, perhaps, in such a manner wished to emphasize an agrarian scope of his activity.

Keywords

architectural decor, national tradition, ornament, sacral signs.

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