| Summary: | In the given article the authors consider an interpretation of the theme of the North in classical and modern works of art. Theoretical part of the work presents an attempt to generalize the existing principals and approaches to depiction of northern territories in fine art. The theme of the North in pictorial art is, on one hand, revealed as a unique territory, being far from the world globalization processes and, on the whole, far from peoples presence and that is why it lets us perceive the laws of the macrocosm and the nature in their absolute purity. On the other hand, the North is the area of the native small-numbered peoples habitation, and that is why such nations as the Nganasans, the Nenets, the Evenkis, the Eskimos, the Dolgans, and so on become the personages of works of art, which reveal the theme of the North. In the given article, we single out several approaches to a visual interpretation of the northern peoples existence: documentary-ethnographical, philosophical and appeal to the theme of the Northern peoples in the context of social problematics. The applied part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of artworks, video-art, installations and artistic projects in the sphere of visual depiction of the North representation. The part of our art-historical research is dedicated to pieces of graphic work and paintings of the Krasnoyarsk Region artists, who have gone on expeditions to the North and have captured the life of the Northern peoples of the region - these are the works of D.I. Karatanov, А.P. Lekarenko, B.Y. Ryauzov, К.S. Voinov and of other painters. The theme of the North in the works of the modern artists is considered on the examples of paintings by А. Kirtsova, А. Ponomaryov, A. Suzdalev and others. Besides, in the given article we study the artworks of foreign artists. The works of R. Kent represent an example of appealing to the theme of the North in traditional pictorial art. Besides, we have singled out the works of such authors as D. Almond and G. Van de Verve among the ...
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