EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF ARTISTIC CULTURE (BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE FILM «RUSSIAN ARK» BY A. SOKUROV)

Yana I. Samoryadova

doi:10.31804/2782-4926-2026-111-120

UDC 37.017.7

EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF ARTISTIC CULTURE (BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE FILM «RUSSIAN ARK» BY A. SOKUROV)

Published in Siberian Art History Journal · Volume 5, Issue 1 · Pages 111–120 · Rubric: Audiovisual arts

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31804/2782-4926-2026-111-120

Received: 31.03.2026 Accepted: 31.03.2026 Published: 31.03.2026

Authors

Yana I. Samoryadova

Institute for the Humanities, Siberian Federal University Kafedra kul'turologii i iskusstvovedeniya · Krasnoyarsk

ABSTRACT

Artistic culture occupies a special place in the traditional system of culture, providing a person with the opportunity to transform and achieve a state of harmonious and comprehensively developed personality through specially organized communication with works of art, which realizes the educational aspect of the functions of culture. Disclosure of the educational potential of works of artistic culture seems important in the context of considering the educational goals and ideals of the entire human culture as such. Using the example of the film «Russian Ark» (2002) by A. N. Sokurov, which is a work with historical and cultural significance - an attempt by the director to find the national identity of the country through a symbolic journey through its various historical eras, the article attempts to reveal the educational potential of the work by revealing three symbolic levels of the film: material, indexical and iconic. This work offers possible answers to the following questions arising from the research problem: does the link to national identity really play a fundamental role in the perception of the educational and humanistic concept of the author; how exactly the educational function of art is realized when watching the film «Russian Ark» (2002), through what signs sent to the viewer, the educational nature of this process occurs; in what way, during the dialogue with a work of cinematic art, the transformation of the viewer into a new spiritual quality will occur. The methodology of the study is represented by the conceptual provisions of the modern theory of fine art, the method of semiotic analysis of a work of art, the provisions of the modern theory of visual communication, the conceptual provisions of the theory of the educational effect of a work of art on the viewer, as well as the provisions of the modern sociology of cinema.

KEYWORDS

Educational potential, philosophical and art history analysis, sociology of cinema, Russian cinema

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Doctor of Cultural Studies, Docent

Julia Zamaraeva

rybka08@bk.ru

Candidate of Philosophical Sciences

Anastasia Kistova

Candidate of Cultural Studies, Docent

Maria Kolesnik

masha_kolesnik@mail.ru

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor

Natal'ya P. Kopceva