Russian Art & Architecture.
Title: Russian Art & Architecture.
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1560 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Russian Art & Architecture.
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1560 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Russian Art & Architecture
From icons and onion domes to suprematism and the Stalin baroque, Russian art and architecture seems to many visitors to Russia to be a rather baffling array of exotic forms and alien sensibilities. Without any sense of the rich tradition of Russian culture, an appreciation of the country's enormous artistic wealth becomes a game of historical anecdote--"the church where so-and-so took refuge from what's-his-name"--or a meaningless collection of aesthetic
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from modernism, Stalinist-era architecture is best exemplified by the seven nearly indistinguishable "wedding-cake" skyscrapers that dominate the city's skyline.
In more recent years, the dissolution of the Soviet state and a renewed interest in traditional Russian culture have produced a new appreciation of more modest folk architecture. The few remaining examples of traditional wooden architecture, such as those on display in the outdoor architectural museum in Kostroma, are now among Russia's most treasured architectural monuments.