“ Young Symbols ” (“younger” Symbolists) - Alexander Blok , Andrei Bely , Vyacheslav Ivanov - writers who appeared in the first publications in the 1900s.
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The platform of the “junior” Symbolists is based on the idealistic philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov with his idea of the Third Testament and the coming of the Eternal Feminine . V. Solovyov asserted that the highest task of art is “... the creation of a universal spiritual organism” [1] , that a work of art is an image of a subject and phenomenon “in the light of the future world”, with which the understanding of the role of a poet as a priest is connected. This is concluded, according to A. Bely ’s explanation, “the union of the tops of symbolism as art with mysticism”
The material world is only a mask through which another world of the spirit shines through. The images of the mask and masquerade are constantly flashed in the poetry and prose of the Symbolists. The material world is depicted as something chaotic, illusory, as a lower reality in comparison with the world of ideas and entities.
Russian painters with agonizing tensions experienced the problem of personality and history in their "mysterious connection" with eternity, with the essence of the universal "world process." The inner world of the personality for them is an indicator of the general tragic state of the world, including the “terrible world” of Russian reality, doomed to death, the resonator of natural historical elements, the receptacle of prophetic premonitions of near renewal.
Literature
- Encyclopedia of Symbolism, ed. Jean Cass, M., 1998.
- Kolobayeva L. А. Russian symbolism. - M .: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 2000. - 296 p.
- [White A. Symbolism as Understanding. M .: Respublika, 1994. - Meadow green. Book of articles. S. 334-338. http://www.philosophy.ru/library/belyi/04.html .]
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- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is October 16, 2009. Archived January 19, 2010.