Myhtological Images And Plotes In Art Of Modern Of The First Half Of Xx Century

The border of epochs is accompanying crisis which held a change of the way of thinking, remove to other philosophical model of outlook. Art tends to reach the time and to represent a new life in its works and convey a mood of epoch. Early of XX century was marked by different events, such as: industrialization, the World War I, epidemics, collapse of empires, devastation and famine which destroyed a world balance. Artists tried to get a lost harmony. A new problem was established at the end of XIX – early of XX centuries. Symbolism had a considerable influence on the choice of plots and its interpretation in Modern. Art of Modern is characterized by interest to mythological characters and allegoric motives. Myth became a way of rethinking of reality and has demanded from artist three elements: myth itself, historical epoch and picturesque language. Revival of myth in the art of XX century was based on the new attitude to myth as a saver of basics of the future culture. Myth changed the universal imagination about world order in sensoryspecific form, and this property is inherited from his art.