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The Art of Russia
Series in which fine art commentator Andrew Graham-Dixon articulates the unbelievable narrative of Russian art – its enigmatic splendor – and until now a story unseen on British television
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He searches the beginnings of the Russian star from his origins in Byzantium and the original exalted Russian idol, Our Lady of Vladimir to the masterworks of the nation’s most renowned icon artist, Andrei Rublev.
Equally classic and breathtaking, and creating marvelous art, however primitive Russia could be a frightening location.
Out of Forest. crisscrossing the impressive countryside, Andrew goes to see the monastery established by Ivan the Terrible, wherever his preferred methods of torment obtained inspiration in religious art. One and only man would flash a light into Russia’s dark ages – Peter the Great who, astonishingly, received as his revelation Deptford in South London.
Road to Revolution. He investigates in what way Russia transformed from a medieval country of aristocratic overindulgence to a center of rebellion at the commencement of the 20th century and in what way art changed from being a slave of the state to a vehicle of its annihilation.
Smashing the Mould. The last leg scrutinizes governmental uprising and in what way art was at the foreground of tossing out 1,000 years of regal regime, from its initial radical times of passion and hopefulness when oil painting perished, the print was ruler and the machine-made prevailed over the handmade to the lifeless hand of Communist Realism.
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It is rather strange that he calls the iconostasis a purely Russian invention. Greek churches also have iconostases. And icons in a Russian church are not placed only on the iconostasis. They are also ‘dispersed’ all over the church. How can one miss such obvious things?
In fact, Russia is part of the East Christian civilisation. She is an heir to Byzantium, together with Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania… And – despite the religious schism – together with Coptic Egypt, Armenia, Ethiopia.That is our world, there lies our soul.
Что-то Вы, видимо, не очень внимательно читали. Я в сердцах не читаю, но читаю слова. Замечание (моё) было сделано на замечание mormegilion-а о том, что кириллический алфавит есть болгарский и принесён был на Русь болгарами, как и всё православие. Я не считаю это утверждение верным. (Вы же и сами пишете “для болгар”, а не болгарами.) Это, по-моему, выглядит как передёргивание – трактование истинных фактов в кривом свете, а проще говоря – неприкрытая зависть. Жаль, если не смогла объяснить.
Новгородские грамоты – общее место, слушателям Зализняка, да и не только, о них можно не рассказывать. Берестяные грамоты не означают, что между вполне себе справедливыми поправками относительно происхождения кириллической графики и завистью есть какая-то связь. Заметьте, что если первая реплика уместна при личном общении, то Ваш ответ – не очень. Возможно Вам кажется, что чтение в сердцах – проявление любви к Родине (или что угодно, я не знаю), на деле же выглядит это некрасиво.
Если бы Вы сами читали Зализняка, то не говорили бы подобную глупость. Зализняк не в последнюю очередь прославился тем, что расшифровывает новгородские берестяные грамоты, писавшиеся той же кириллицей простыми горожанами, для повседневных нужд, есть среди них дошедшие к нам из одиннадцатого века, как и известная Новгородская цера. А уж про мальчика Онфима не знает только ленивый да неграмотный. Кстати, арабские цифры тоже не арабы придумали, но гораздо важнее, КАК они ими воспользовались.
простите, а где вы увидели зависть в комментарии? кириллица была изобретена для болгар, в восточнославянских же землях письменность века до XIII существовала только в церквях – то есть старославянская, то есть южнославянская. Зализняка почитайте для начала.
mormegilion, don’t be ridiculous, you are so ignorant…you really think that Wikipedia provides relevant information? I recommend that you read Ostrogorsky “History of the Byzantine State” and of course Obolensky “The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453″. Best wishes from Serbia .
Russia comes from Ukraine were your mother!
даже без знания английского очень интересно смотреть)))
Disgusting English propaganda! Just can’t believe how BBC even in such series about “Russian art” couldn’t (or didn’t want to) hold the objective position but have used it as political tool of the UK foreign policy.BBC have made it – after such series, I much more despise British propaganda, than I could ever hate the Russian political system. BBC, you are disgusting!
He talks as if the world still takes Christianity and its iconography seriously. That “Madonna Praying” looks more like “Madonna Half-whacked”. Note: Many of the pagans were “Christianized” – it was not a miraculous change – It was oppression. They were submitted to an ideological cult under threat of death and torture. This guy is so ignorant. I suspect that he is pre-enlightenment. He’s probably Catholic.
I don’t know about this “art historian”. He is not a serious critic so his narratives on the past are somewhat cliched. You always get the feeling you’ve heard everything he’s said before. He doesn’t well critique past art. In his American video all he does is try to validate the high values of the famous art. He offers no illumination. That something is an object and that people pay high amounts for it does not make it art, it makes it an object that people pay high amounts for.
Subtitles are brilliant!
@mormegilion Ваша неприкрытая зависть распустилась махровым цветом… Что ж, это хорошо, когда завидуют – значит, есть чему.
This documentary is full of incorrect facts. The Cyrilic Alphabet is Bulgarian, not Russian, the iconostasis is to be found on the Balkans centuries before it was brought to Russia, the first Tzar is Simeon The Great of Bulgaria and he created the title in early 10th century and the so called “First and Second Southern Slavic Influence” in Russian culture is a term, created by the Russian historians to explain how the Orthodox ideas penetrated Russia through Bulgaria. Check Wikipedia for more…
That was nonsense about Ivan the Terrible said.
good, but ukraine-is ukraine,with its own language and history,we have a lot of common things,but russia differs from ukraine,so tis got 2 be two diffferent programs.(ua)
great
why are the subtitles so off?
@cosmicsquid why??he was uh like terribleand stuff
Superb documentary. Thanks for uploading!
Nice, got to love Ivan the Terrible.