Motives religious motives in modern Russian outsider art (Vladimir Zoroastrov art)

The phenomenon of addressing to religious themes among Russian outsider artists coincides with the time of a radical restructuring of the nation’s worldview and the search for new spiritual landmarks during the second half of the 1980s - 1990s. Religious images in the Vladimir Zoroastrov’s works allow the artist to comprehend his life way and an surrounding reality. Vladimir Zoroastrov’s appeal to the images of religion are literally following the biblical text, but at the same time include a free interpretation of religious subjects and images of contemporary everyday life