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   Beasts in the naive art are amazingly strong and great, their appearance brings us back to the proto-beasts. The features of such a a proto-beast could be noticed in Nikolay Kozyrin's "Cat". The words from the old Russian spiritual verses of the XVII - XIX centuries, which reflect the folk poetic idea of the strongest beast, fish and bird "Mother of all the beasts" correlates with this image. Its right place is in the myth on creation, in the Eden.
   Utopia idea of "the golden age" is one of the most stable mythologemas of the human mind. In the naive art it found good soil, acquired its characters and wide area for application.



Kozyrin Nikolay Ivanovich. 1908-1995. Ul’yanovsk region
Tricolour Siberian Cat. 1991
Oil on wood. 38,5 õ 28,5
Ul’yanovsk Museum



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