Theoretical expression of self-portrait in contemporary Russian art history

The article considers the meaningful and conceptual boundaries of self-portrait in the modern Russian art history. A study of self-portrait is being carried out both on the example of intellectual positions of thinkers of the last century and of the scientific works of contemporaries. The text of the article reveals the ideological perspective of the semantic meanings of the self-portrait according to the ideological and constructive views of the present era. The object of research is the portrait genre in the fine art. The subject of research is the theoretical definition of self-portrait in the Russian art history. The purpose of this work is to establish the ideological and substantive values of a self-portrait in the modern art science. According to the set goal, the following tasks are solved: - to provide scientific and theoretical views on the artistic image of a self-portrait of modern researchers of the 21st century; - define terminological lexical units in these judgments, which can subsequently take the role of conceptual values. The novelty of the study is determined by the disclosure of the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the artistic form of a self-portrait, which has strong interpretative significance in the field of contemporary art. The author formulates the following conclusion: the ideological and theoretical expression of a self-portrait in the space of modern art history is revealed through interdisciplinary methods of scientific research, which assert their own terminological units in the meaningful disclosure of the artistic image of the portrait genre. Each of the terms established in the article is related to the conceptual representation of the socio-psychological sphere.