Art is a matryoshka doll. There are many types of art - for example, literature, music, painting, film, photography. Fashion is also art. And if you think that different types of art do not touch each other in any way, then this is completely wrong.



All forms of art are interconnected with each other. Literature influences cinema, for example. Painting on photography, and photography, in turn, influences painting.



Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman has never been interested in fashion, nor is he a style icon. Ingmar Bergman most often wore corduroy trousers, a flannel checkered shirt, a leather jacket. The colors of his clothes were brown, beige and green.

So, at the beginning of the twentieth century, paintings by modernist artists appeared precisely thanks to photography. With the invention of the camera in the 19th century, the need for realistic portraits or landscapes became a thing of the past, and many of the artists came to the conclusion that the purpose of painting is to show the true essence of things invisible to the eye and reflect the ideas and views of the artists themselves. That is, a picture as a philosophy.



By the way, the first exhibition of the Impressionists (namely, impressionist painters are considered the first modernists) was held in the photo studio of the famous portrait photographer Nadar, and there are no coincidences in history.



Art is like a nesting doll. You are watching a movie - and this is, for example, a large nesting doll. Then you find the book on which this film was filmed, and this is a smaller nesting doll. And then you go to the show of a collection of designer clothes, which the designer created under the impression of viewed photographs taken by a photographer based on the film. And this is another little nesting doll.



If you learn to understand the "nesting dolls", then the world of art becomes much more exciting and interesting. We like to solve puzzles and guess riddles, read detective stories. So, with the right approach, going to an exhibition, reading a book and watching a movie can become a real "crime scene" for you, from which you start your search for evidence-nesting dolls in other works of art.

One hundred years since the birth of Ingmar Bergman

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (the director was born in 1918). His films are Scenes from Married Life, Persona, The Seventh Seal.



In honor of the centenary of Bergman, a dozen countries hosted the exhibition "Ingmar Bergman and his heritage in fashion and art", organized by the Swedish Institute. From the end of November to the middle of December, this exhibition will be held in the city of Minsk (Belarus). This exhibition has its own characteristics in each country - local designers and photographers, for example, can create their works based on the work of Bergman.



At the exhibition "Ingmar Bergman and His Legacy in Fashion and Art", which takes place in Minsk, you can see a very interesting fusion of cinema, photography and fashion. Three nesting dolls. The largest nesting dolls are stills from Ingmar Bergman's films, clearly demonstrating the very “Bergman's” style.



Matryoshka in the middle are photographs. The exhibition presents photographs of the Belarusian artist L. Khristeseva and the Swedish photographer Sanda Mürberg, dedicated to the island of Fore.It is an island in the Baltic Sea that served as an inspiration for Ingmar Bergman. The director found this island while searching for a place to shoot his films. Then Bergman built a house on the island of Foro, where he died in 2007 at the age of 90.



Also on display are photographs of clothing from Swedish fashion brands, inspired by Bergman's films.



Little nesting doll is a collection of clothes from the Belarusian brand Historia Naturalis (designers Polina Voronova and Larisa Atamanova). In this collection, on the one hand, the recognizable style of the Historia Naturalis brand is preserved, including in uniforms, on the other hand, the cinematic language of Bergman is paraphrased through graphic prints on clothes.







And finally, the smallest nesting dolls are Christmas trees decorated with quotes by Ingmar Bergman.



This exhibition is an interesting and in many ways a unique opportunity to see various types of art, united by one theme, in one place and to trace the relationship between them.



After all, for example, if the Historia Naturalis brand collection show was held separately from the exhibition, then not many visitors to this show would look for the meaning of prints on clothes. When we buy designer clothes, we rarely try to find out how the idea of ​​creating it came about, and where the designer got his inspiration from. Perhaps it should. It's much more interesting this way.