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The researchers noted: “The stylistic innovations of Alexander Volkov continued the traditions of the Russian Post-Cubism that made adjustments in the traditions of the founders of this direction – the French Cubism artists, including Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
But, at the same time: ”I want to talk to people in a language they understand,“ said Alexander Volkov, who created the language based on the synthesis of traditional forms of folk art and easel painting. Artistic experiments of Alexander Volkov in the 1920s revealed his keen understanding of the image-bearing structure of the works of traditional arts and crafts, particularly, carpet weaving that includes: ”…the interpretation of the content of the images; decryption of ornament, methods, techniques; unraveling the mysteries of composition, color; identification of complex processes and regularities of the Eastern art and the creation of a single system, which unites the past with the present, in which the traditions were not just ‘used’, but would really find a new life, and art would be a step forward, not looking back.”
From the existing literature on the creativity of such artists as Alexander Volkov, Alexander Nikolaev (Usto Mumin), Oganes Tatevosyan, Nikolay Karahan, Ural Tansykbaev, Akram Siddiqi and others, it can be concluded that “their approach to the folk art they understood not just as mastering the experience of Russian and European avantgarde, but the continuation of an unbroken chain of artistic traditions of Central Asia.” The deep understanding of the traditional poetics and synthesizing it with creative aspirations of the 20th century were used as the basis of the concept of their creativity in the 1920s. The points of intersection became the conventionality of the artistic language, its laconic nature, decorativeness, symbolism of images characteristic of traditional art, which found their interpretation in the avantgarde works.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album "The Collection of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy" (Volume IX) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
