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Тенденции метамодернизма в живописи Адама Миллера
Metamodernism is a new chronotypological stage that has replaced postmodernism. Since the early 1990s researchers of culture and art have been discussing the need to go beyond the term “postmodernism”. Attempts to identify the dominant socio-cultural concept at the present stage have given rise to many original studies on the emergence of a “new sensibility” and a new system of cultural production. In 2010, Dutch scientists R. van den Akker and T. Vermeulen published an essay “Notes on Metamodernism”, where they suggested that such a phenomenon as metamodernism is operating in interdisciplinary discourse. Metamodernism is a structure of feeling, a reflection on existing reality, translating human experiences into the modern era. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, it can be argued that the functioning of metamodernism in modern fine art has been poorly reflected by art historians. In this study, the authors, using formal stylistic and semiotic analysis, attempt to identify the manifestation of metamodernist tendencies in modern Western fine art, namely in the paintings of the American artist Adam Miller. A. Miller’s visual language refers us to the works of Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael, which was facilitated by the artist’s studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and his study of the art of the Baroque and Mannerist eras. In his works, the artist refers to classical iconographic images, reconceptualized and transferred to the modern world. By combining current narratives and referring to the language of traditional Western European art, Adam Miller creates his own neomythological world, focusing on the dichotomy of nature and civilization, natural and man-made, ancient and modern. Moreover, the artist addresses such a trend of metamodernism as a new regime of historicity, combining at least two historical modalities in a single plot: the past and the present. The interest of museum institutions in the works of A. Miller is confirmed by numerous exhibitions in Europe (Poulsen Gallery, Denmark; Gormleys fine Art, Ireland; Galerie L’Oeil du Prince, France), and North America (Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art Wausau, Wisconsin, USA ; George Berges Gallery, New York, USA; McCord Museum, Montreal, Canada; Musee National Des Beaux-Arts Du Quebec, Quebec, Canada).