НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ФОРМА В ИСКУССТВЕ

National Form in Art

Specific features of artistic form introduced in art by each people. Marxist-Leninist aesthetics, considering art a reflection of reality, notes that the forms of this reflection are associated with the specific features of a people's life, its socio-economic system, traditions, character, and psychology. All this imparts a national colouring to art. Language is an important element of national form. The interaction of national cultures enriches the forms of art.

Soviet art is socialist in content, that is, it asserts socialist ideology; at the same time it is extremely diverse in form, which is explained by the wealth of life itself and the free, all-round development of nations in socialist society. True national art is always international because art, reflecting the depths of a people's soul, carries general human elements. The organic blending of the national and the international in socialist art is determined by the very nature of socialism and the Marxist ideology of friendship and brotherhood of peoples.