Impressionistic Search in Artistic Interpretation of Dance at the Turn of the 20th Century

Abstract

The study of Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th century is instructive in the search for and finding of new expressive means of the artistic language, a new imagery in various forms of art. One of the essential features of this historical and cultural process is that it is carried out in close interweaving of stylistic innovations. Impressionism attracts the attention of researchers in the motley picture of the development of artistic trends in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Now it appears to us as a stylistic trend, with clearly expressed historical premises, an ideological and aesthetic programme.1 Impressionism avoids indirect ways of approaching reality, conventionality, stylization, and metaphoricity. An attempt of theoretical interpretation of the relationship between dance and fine art in the context of Impressionism undertaken in this paper is not accidental. The manifestation of not only certain