Gender paradigm of a creative person in the fine arts

Basing upon the summarizing and systematization of the cultural and historical data, and applied social and psychodiagnostic studies the author carries out a research of the gender paradigm of a creative person in the Russian culture at the turn of the 20 th and 21 st centuries. The undertaken research proves a gender specificity of the creative personality, showing itself as androgyne cultural identity with complementarity of the features commonly attributed by the society to male or female sociocultural role.