Visualization of the Concept «Siberian Ethnos» in the Works by the Krasnoyarsk Artist Konstantin Voynov

The article is devoted to the research of specific features of the visual concept «Siberian ethnos» in the works by Krasnoyarsk painter Konstantin Voynov. Research of visual concepts is especially productive in the epoch of iconic turn, since it allows to reveal the content of cultural meanings which werent sufficiently reflected in verbal texts, but were successfully represented in visual forms. Methodologic grounds for the work are synthetic theory of the ideal by Daniil V. Pivovarov, concept of visual thinking by Vladimir I. Zhukovsky, concept of visual turn, concept theory by Yuriy S. Stepanov, method of philosophical and art analysis of artistic culture works. Content of the concept «Siberian Ethnos» is seen in the following aspects: a complex of images about folks who originally inhabited Siberian territory, representations of non-indigenous peoples culture, nationality «Siberian» in terms of values-based attitude of belonging to the great region, which possesses peculiar harmony, purity, primevalness. Analysis of resemblant works of art of Konstantin S. Voynovs paintings cycle «Siberian Ethnicity» is presented in the article. Word-picture in the cycle works is revealed by means of representation of the universal through the single, presentation of the image of the person who lives with integrity and in line with nature and God. By painting ethnic features, the author goes up to the universal human, supertemporal content - birth, relationship between mother and her child, understanding the course of human life, dialectics of life and death, etc.