>>4196569So the beautiful in art was gradually replaced by the wierd and ugly.
Examples of such formalistic images are photo 3, where all common sense is lost; photo 4, where an extremely abstruse pictorial form was found to develop the Rainy Day theme", the entire characteristic of which is reduced to showing the strange shape of water drops that the viewer does not immediately recognize.
And it is no coincidence that in the end the formalists came to complete abstractions, in which the photographic image of real objects was replaced by incomprehensible combinations of tonal spots and lines (photo 5).
One of the main provisions of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics, its doctrine of form and content in a work of art, becomes quite clear: there is no empty form, an art form can exist only as a carrier of a certain content, a certain idea
Naturalism believes that art should neither propagate nor condemn the phenomena of reality, neither select nor comprehend them in its works, but is only called upon to state, that is, blindly fix what falls into the field of view of the artist. Naturalism, therefore, is characterized by a passive attitude towards reality, ignoring the typical phenomena of life
Naturalism, like formalism, is alien and hostile to Soviet photographic art, since it belittles reality, gives only a one-sided view of it, and thus often leads to its distortion.
Formalism and naturalism oppose the ideological content of art, but formalism wages this struggle openly, and naturalism often tries to act under the guise of realism, disguising itself by the fact that it allegedly seeks to achieve complete resemblance of the object depicted on the canvas or photograph with a real object. However, exact copying, blind adherence to nature is not a prerequisite for creating a work of art
