BULGARIA ENTERED THE 20 th CENTURY WITH ONLY ONE FULLY DEVELOPED ART TRADITION – THE TRADITION OF THE FOLKLORE ART. THE CHRISTIAN ART, WHICH HAD BEEN ACCEPTED AS EARLY AS THE 9th CENTURY , DID NOT AFFECT INTEGRITY AT FOLKLORE ART TRADITION.IN THIS WAY , ORTHODOKXY AND FOLKLORE , TWO DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES WITH THEIR OWN ART STYLES , HAVE BEEN EXISTING IN PARALLEL OFTEN JUXTAPOSED AGAINST EACH OTHER A SYMBIOTIE RELATIONSHIP. THE ORTODOXY ART TRADITION HAS REMAINED CLOSED IN THE LITHURGICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH , WHILE THE OTHER ONE , HAS CELEBRATED THE TRADITIONAL FOLK FESTIVALS . THIS CULTURAL – HISTORICAL PREREQUISITE , IS A DEFINING FAKTOR IN THE MODERN BULGARIAN ART, EVEN IT IS STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY THE AVANT – GARD ART OF THE 20 th CENTURY. IT EXPLAINS THE DUAL ATTITUDE AT THE BULGARIAN ARTISTS TOWARDS THE MODERN ART. THEY EITHER CONSUME IT EAGERLY , SOMETIMES EVEN COPING IT , OR LOOK AT IT SCEPTICALLY , USING IT AS NECESSARY INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPING THEIR OWN ART STYLE .
WHERE IS ANDREY YANEV’S PLACE ?
IN THE DIVERSE PICTURE OF THE MODERN BULGARIAN ART , ANDREY YANEV COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE ARTISTS , TO WHOM MODERN STYLES ARE NECESSARY INFORMATION , WITHOUT EXCLUDING THE NATIVE TRADITION . IN THIS WAY HE IS CLOSE TO THE AESTHETIC PLATFORM OF THE BULGARIAN ARTISTS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY , BELONGING TO THE ART CIRCLE ” NATIVE ART ” .
ANDREY YANEV IS AN ARTIST WITH NEW ICONOCLASTIC STYLE , WITHOUT BEING A COMPILED
ICONOGRAPHER . HE USES THE PLAIN SYMBOLS OF THE COLOUR AND HIS FLAT FORMS , WITH RITUAL GESTURES , SHOW HIS TYPICAL CONCENTRATION .
ON HIS CANVAS , THE SUBJECT DEVELOPS OUTSIDE EVERYDAY LIFE , AND TRANSIENT THINGS , OUTSIDE THE DAILY STRESS AND THE CRUEL CONDITIONS OF LIFE.
THE SPIRITUAL STEADINESS , RADIATING FROM HIS WORKS , OFTEN REACHES CONTEMPLATION AND PARTICULAR CONCENTRATION , BRINGS FORTH HOPE .
HOPE AS SALVATION .
PROF . DR. AXINIA DZUROVA