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Maltseva E.A. [Railroad in European painting: symbolism and meanings] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/15KLSK221.pdf (in Russian).

Railroad in European painting: symbolism and meanings

Maltseva Elena Aleksandrovna
Siberian Transport University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
E-mail: eamaltseva@yandex.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-9888
РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=632809

Abstract. In this article carry out a full analyses of railroad’s image in European art. Railroad become an object of interest for artist’s and took it’s art representation from the very beginning of existing. Artists gave one of the most important investigation of humanity a lot of symbols and senses. Author highlights idea of cooperation between railway and nature and two ways of interpretation in European art — including railways in nature, representation of it being in harmony (works of C. Pissarro, V. van Gogh) and opposition of technical equipment with landscape (A. Menzel, C. Pissarro). Also it’s noted in article a contrasting between a tradition transport — horses and water transport (arts of J.M.W. Turner, C. Monet, T. Cuneo). Analysing of pieces of art shows us a different symbols of rainbow. Often it representing as a symbol of technical progress which, in one hand let humanity move to bright future (P. Meyerheim, C. Monet), but in other hand destructing good old days (J. Martin, I. Pannaggi, L. Russolo, G. Severini). Image of train station in European art are often represents as an image of home and it can be became as asign of homeless and lost men (U. Boccioni, P. Delvaux), or as a temporary home, a shelter (J. Bross, J. Tissot, A. Solomon, A. Menzel, H. Daumier). Also author mentioned a tendency, started in XX century and grown in nowadays arts, to show a railways as an individual aesthetic object, caused nostalgia for «steam era».

Keywords: railway; railway image; European painting; train in painting; railway station in painting; technical progress in art

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