Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2015 8) 130-137 ~ ~ ~ УДК 7.036 Visualization of the Essence (about the Creative Work of the Artist Vladimir Zhukovsky) Alexandra A. Sitnikova* and Liudmila N. Zhukovskaia Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 01.10.2014, received in revised form 15.11.2014, accepted 14.12.2014 This article discusses the trends of the creative activity of Vladimir Zhukovsky. <...> His philosophicaltheoretical and art works interact and complement each other. <...> The article argues that using visual thinking, the idea of the artist is embodied into the integrated form, and the product of his creative activity becomes a cultural value. <...> Introduction Contemporary art is characterized by a variety of artistic trends, creative search and individual forms of expression. <...> Vladimir Zhukovsky, the professor of Siberian Federal University, strikes a balance between a professional art historian, an artist and a professor of philosophy; his theoretical and art works interact and complement each other. “On the one hand, Vladimir Zhukovsky perfectly understands the variety of surfaces artistic produced by masters of different cultures and eras; on the other hand, being an interesting and original artist himself, he sees some otherworldly integral value in the material shell of this or that masterpiece. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: sem_dobrianka@mail.ru # 130 # souls of artistic things hidden under the fl esh of lines and colours, to easily read and non-trivially interpret artistic ideas, which original artists are so fond of carefully packing into the intricacies of fi ne geometric-compositional formulas”. (Pivovarov D.V., (1999) Preface. <...> Visualization of the Essence (about the Creative Work of the Artist… Art activity brought Vladimir Zhukovsky close to another Krasnoyarsk artist Andrey Pozdeev. <...> In 1980 Andrey Pozdeev organized a personal exhibition of plastic works of Zhukovsky in his workshop; at the beginning of 1990s they exhibited together in Tallinn, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo. <...> Embodying the author’s intent, the exhibited compositions are exempt from any utilitarian function and imbued with symbolic meaning; they make it possible not only to contemplate them from the outside, but also to get inside the works, enhancing human interaction with art objects. <...> The exhibition “Relationship” is a spatial interaction of the works of the artist with each other, their relationship <...>