CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION IN BASHKIRIA FINE ARTS IN THE 1950-1970s
The article discusses the problems of fine art development in Bashkiria in the 1950-1970s. Suchfeatures as painting, graphics, sculpture, monumental, decorative and theatrical are reflected in main genres development of fine art. It was concluded that Bashkiria fine art of the post-war period was characterized by an accelerated process of its further formation and development on the basis of professional Soviet fine art of socialist realism period. It is revealed that, in the 1970s and early 1980s, more efforts were directed towards the search for something special, specific in each type of creativity in contrast to the artistic picture formation of the world as a characteristic feature of the fine arts in the late 1960s. It is concluded that the professional fine art of the republic, combining traditions and innovation, imbued with high citizenship, performed an important function of harmonization, raising, in its turn, ideological and aesthetic level of thesociety.