Me Iskusstwa (Russian: German: World of the art) was an artist combination, itself the end 19. As well as century in Russia formed a magazine of same name, which was published since 1898 by the members of this combination.

Founders me Iskusstwa were the artist Alexander Nikolajewitsch Benua and the theatre-creative Sergej Pawlowitsch Djagilew. A goal was it to take up art standards of the outdated school of the Peredwischniki and to promote the artistic peculiarities and principles kind of the Nouveau at the same time. To the members soon the artists pushed Lew Samoilowitsch Bakst, Mstislaw Walerianowitsch Dobuschinski, Jewgeni Jewgenjewitsch Lansere, Anna Petrowna Ostroumowa Lebedewa and Konstantin Somow.

With the magazine Iwan Jakowlewitsch Bilibin, Konstantin Somow, Alexander Jakowlewitsch Golowin, Igor Emmanuilowitsch Grabar, Konstantin Alexejewitsch Korowin, Boris Michailowitsch Kustodijew, Nicholas Roerich, Walentin Alexandrowitsch Serow, Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Wrubel, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan as well as Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Nesterow were closely connected.

The bloom time of the combination extended over the period of 1900 to 1904 - in this time consent existed over the unit of the aesthetic and ideological principles. The artists organized exhibitions parallel to the magazine. After 1904 the combination became larger and lost its ideological unit. In the time of 1904 to 1910 the majority of the members of the movement Iskusstwa of the combination of the Russian artists joined me. The combination is to be regarded 1924 actually as dissolved.

The movement, which led Iskusstwa to the establishment of the combination as well as to publication me, those exerted a large influence on the development of the art in Russia the European art in the first decade 20. Century lastingly to affect should. Since 1909 many contributed to gas-animal-end the Miriskusniki (so the members of the movement mentioned) during for the spreading of the Ballets of soot and of them in of Paris ensembles. Like the representatives of the romance at that time, they used themselves for the understanding and the keeping of past art epochs, in particular the traditional folklore and the art 18. Century.

Such Renaissance projects were often pursued in humoristic kind and in the parodistischen sense. One availed oneself of Medial light, airy effects in water colors and Gouache in connection with life-large In order to increase the public width, household effects and books were arranged. Bakst and Benois revolutionized the Theaterrequisiten with their innovative arrangements of Kleopatra (1909), Karneval (1910), Petruschka (1910) and midi d"´un faune (1912) after Claude Debussy.

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