Images of doctors in the Kaliningrad and Kuibyshev periods of V.P. Denisov's work: to the question of the structure of the artistic cycle

This study is devoted to the images of medical workers in the paintings of the Samara artist V.P. Denisov (1935–2021). This theme was present in the Kaliningrad period of his work in the second half of the 1960s and in the Kuibyshev period of the early 1980s. During the Kaliningrad period, the artist painted portrait sketches of orderlies, nurses and ambulance doctors, and also one portrait of a military surgeon was painted. During the Kuibyshev period, the artist painted portraits of doctors, mainly surgeons of the Kuibyshev Clinical Hospital. The hypothesis of the study is that in both cases there are completed pictorial cycles. The research materials are a comparable number of works - seven or eight in both the Kaliningrad and Kuibyshev periods. The authors apply an ontological approach, which allows them to determine the structure of the cycle, the functions of individual stages, and the functions of the model levels. The authors conclude that creative activity, including artistic creativity, is realized in a special structured ontological space. Each level of this model has its own ontology, its own way of being, certain characters, images, and plots. In relation to these levels, a strict symmetry is established in the content of the stages within the cycle.