Opowiadania Leonida Andriejewa a malarstwo ekspresjonistyczne

Abstract

This paper attempts to find convergent attributes between Leonid Andreyev’s short stories and the paintings of expressionist artists. Analysis of the short stories suggests that similarities exist between the philosophy of life and esthetics conveyed in both mediums. Andreyev’s short stories and expressionists themes of work refer to existence and problems of life; death, illness, loneliness and fate. Leonid Andreyev strove for conventionality, for synthesis, to expose personality, and the artistic use of color and working of form and space are similar to expressionist painters. All these characteristics point to Leonid Andreyev as a precursor of expressionism in Russia and Europe.