an artistic image and thought presentation, which
are going to become the mature style basis.
At this stage, a significant importance is given to
the master’s identity, social and cultural
environment, family-like atmosphere, historical
and political background for growth, which
speed up (or slow down) the process of
professional self-fulfillment. The private life
events, learning from the wise and iconic
teachers, being acknowledged with outstanding
masters’ opuses, perceiving world masterpieces,
distinguishing favorite ones define the specifics
of the creative personality’s way of thinking. The
elaborations of the aforementioned development
stage are not often autonomous or innovative,
they are exposed to the existing canons; however,
they implement the accumulated experience,
demonstrate the difficult path of the identity
search and become the basis for personal
discoveries.
It is vital that the biography author focuses on
understanding the psycho-age, immanent and
stylistic, sociocultural background for the hero
formation. It requires a detailed revealing of
significant events, impressions and meetings
from the young talented person’s life. This will
enable to understand the temperament, character,
preferences and appeal to certain topics, artistic
trends, as well as to justify the choice of
expressive means, etc., thus to decode the
program of progress. The abovementioned stage
of wunderkinds should be scrupulously studied,
since their giftedness and independent, unique
style are established during the early period.
The mature stage (in the Christian and Jewish
tradition it refers to 33 – 70 year olds) is
characterized by the activity intensity, the
emergence of remarkable opuses, the
establishment of personal philosophical position,
identifying new creative paths, etc. This is the
most long-lasting, controversial and
heterogeneous stage of the master’s ontology, the
consequence of which is usually the following:
realizing the importance of personal practical
activity, responsible attitude to the ideas being
broadcast; self-reflection, energy concentration
on opuses; conscious qualitative world
transformation through the responsible cultural
creative work, aspiring after transferring the
accumulated experience to the next generations
of recipients, leaving a personal footprint in
history.
The importance of the abovementioned period
requires not only the analysis of the master's
achievements, but also seeking methods of
interpreting the individual writing manner. It is
essential to outline the reasons for appealing to a
certain issue or genre clearly. For this, it is
appropriate for the scientist to study the
autobiographical material thoroughly (in case it
is available, since not every performer aspires
after explaining his spiritual intentions verbally),
the information that the demiurges have
broadcast about themselves and their opuses, to
plunge into their microcosm. It is also worth
considering a significant layer of epistolary and
science literature, letters, their contemporaries’
memories, diaries, archival documents, etc. It is
vital to see a real person rather than an idealized
image being quite often offered by classical art
studies, which is still under the influence of the
Victorian chronicle type (only positive sides of
the master's existence are demonstrated).
While reproducing the chronotope of the artist's
life creativity, the author is obliged to restore the
psychological portrait, mental organization, to
accentuate the collisions running through their
being. It is important to outline private events in
detail, as well as to be highly adequate, i. e. not
to descend to the level of the so-called "yellow
press", not to get involved in myth-making and
indulgence in the show business laws (in order to
arouse interest to the character from the
recipients’ side). It is appropriate to compare the
personal and occupational, to justify the choice
of genres, subordination of the opus content to
the master’s life vicissitudes. When the master
deliberately deviates from the autobiographical
nature of personal achievements, which is a quite
rare phenomenon in itself (K. Debussy,
O. Skriabin and some others), it is worth
explaining the nature and essence of the parallel
existence of creative and private world.
Moreover, it is not desirable to explain the
artwork semantics primitively, by interpreting it
as a literal reflection of the chronicle data. Before
becoming an artwork, the phenomenon is
exposed to reconsideration and is being
sublimated into creative energy, and only
thereafter becomes a cultural artifact.
The stylistic parameters of the mature stage are
characterized by asserting an individual way of
thinking (rooted in tradition, or deliberately
opposed to it, but with a clearly defined unique
manner), selecting the author's methodology for
solving artistic issues, philosophical late themes,
the independence of thought, designing new
artistic ways and some others. During this period,
the demiurge is usually not afraid to experiment,
to go beyond the manifested canons; they
promote their elaborations, etc.