Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience

The article examines Mikhail Larionov’s Rayonism in the context of a wide range of scientific and pseudoscientific ideas about radiant matter, radiation and invisible fluids. Rayonism is one of the first pictorial movements within the framework of which the task was set to visualize scientific knowl...

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Main Author: Bobrinskaya Ekaterina A.
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Language:English
Published: State Institute for Art Studies 2024-12-01
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description The article examines Mikhail Larionov’s Rayonism in the context of a wide range of scientific and pseudoscientific ideas about radiant matter, radiation and invisible fluids. Rayonism is one of the first pictorial movements within the framework of which the task was set to visualize scientific knowledge about the invisible: radiation, X-rays, radioactive, ultraviolet, and infrared rays, and the rays of thought. Numerous interactions or direct intersections of Larionov’s texts with the ideas of radiant matter that were widespread in the culture of his time give reason to consider the invention of Rayonism not as an extravagant gesture provoking and shocking the public but as a conscious attempt to synthesize ideas scattered in the atmosphere of those years, as an attempt to clothe the current problems of his time in a new ‘stylistic’ unity. At the beginning of the 20th century, the spread of scientific, occult, theosophical, and simply fantastic ideas related to invisible radiation, radiant matter and the rays of thought was indeed so widespread that it could lead to thoughts about the creation of a ‘ray style’, about the emergence of a new formative ‘artistic will’.
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spelling doaj-art-9da3e7b36f894e8b8553ddc8cce1c8e42024-12-16T08:58:14ZengState Institute for Art StudiesХудожественная культура2226-00722024-12-01445252510.51678/2226-0072-2024-4-452-525Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and ParanoscienceBobrinskaya Ekaterina A.0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9708-245XState Institute for Art StudiesThe article examines Mikhail Larionov’s Rayonism in the context of a wide range of scientific and pseudoscientific ideas about radiant matter, radiation and invisible fluids. Rayonism is one of the first pictorial movements within the framework of which the task was set to visualize scientific knowledge about the invisible: radiation, X-rays, radioactive, ultraviolet, and infrared rays, and the rays of thought. Numerous interactions or direct intersections of Larionov’s texts with the ideas of radiant matter that were widespread in the culture of his time give reason to consider the invention of Rayonism not as an extravagant gesture provoking and shocking the public but as a conscious attempt to synthesize ideas scattered in the atmosphere of those years, as an attempt to clothe the current problems of his time in a new ‘stylistic’ unity. At the beginning of the 20th century, the spread of scientific, occult, theosophical, and simply fantastic ideas related to invisible radiation, radiant matter and the rays of thought was indeed so widespread that it could lead to thoughts about the creation of a ‘ray style’, about the emergence of a new formative ‘artistic will’.https://artculturestudies.sias.ru/upload/iblock/c1a/x4pjite2ufdvvbb6iew9jnf9vdk60nth/hk_2024_4_452.pdf mikhail larionovrayonismradiant matternon-objective paintingscience and the avant-gardeiconography of the invisible
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Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience
Художественная культура
mikhail larionov
rayonism
radiant matter
non-objective painting
science and the avant-garde
iconography of the invisible
title Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience
title_full Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience
title_fullStr Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience
title_full_unstemmed Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience
title_short Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Paranoscience
title_sort radiant painting radiant matter and radiant energy science and paranoscience
topic mikhail larionov
rayonism
radiant matter
non-objective painting
science and the avant-garde
iconography of the invisible
url https://artculturestudies.sias.ru/upload/iblock/c1a/x4pjite2ufdvvbb6iew9jnf9vdk60nth/hk_2024_4_452.pdf
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