Art Culture of the XX Century Vitebsk: Development of Watercolor Painting in Vitebsk in 1970 - Early 1980-ies
Nowadays watercolor painting can be considered one of the leading types of Belarusian fine arts to a great extent due to the fact that earlier during the peak of interest in watercolor (late 1960-ies of the XX century) a strong watercolor center of Vitebsk distinguished itself in Belarus. A generation of talented watercolor artists emerged here, whose creative activity further made it possible for researchers to distinguish not just Vitebsk watercolor but Vitebsk watercolor school. It is Vitebsk watecolor school which is the object of study in this article. In this work the author considers the period in the development of Vitebsk watercolor school from 1970 to early 1990-ies of the XX century. Although chronological borders of the history of Vitebsk watercolor school are considerably wider, the author limits herself by the analysis of only the period mentioned above; first, only in the early 1960-ies the preconditions for the creation of Vitebsk school of watercolor appeared, and, secondly, early 90-ies of the last century is for Vitebsk watercolor school kind of borderline, after which weakening of realistic tendency is traced as well as strengthening of formalistic searches and experiments in the creative work of wartercolor artists.