Eastern Electricity
It is Still Shocking Us ⚡
About 15 years ago I became interested in the turn of the 20th Century (fin-de-seicle) period in Eastern Europe and Russia. It was a time of creativity and original thinking in art and philosophy but little understood in the English speaking world. Sometimes called the "Silver Age" of cultural advancement the art work in particular caught my attention.👀
Artists like Mikhal Vruble, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Alphonse Mucha and others prefigured the visual arts of the era but get little credit in the salons of London or Paris. Yet much of the creative energy that fueled the artist in Paris and Germany was electrified from further east.
These artists were releasing the explosive 🧨🧨 values of the unconscious mind 🌟 that had been suppressed for centuries. This was the real revolutionary impulse that later lead to the rearranging of Europe that continues today.
The expressionism of color is used to drive the emotional content rather than precision in form. There is no attempt to lend a sense of realism to what is a symbol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dramatic color content combines with the emotional symbolism of pan-Slavism, more a transcendent dream than a political ideal.
This incredible image could be ripped from today’s headlines. It is the detonation of psychic electricity. ⚡⚡⚡
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