Humanities & Social Sciences 12 (2016 9) 2964-2970 ~ ~ ~ УДК 7.0 The Problem of Portraying Motion in Painting and Graphic Art of the 1920s in the Context of the Theme of Sports Natal‘ia V. Malevinskaia* Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 17 Universitetskaya Embarkment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia Received 22.03.2016, received in revised form 21.05.2016, accepted 19.09.2016 The article covers the brightest sculpturesque solutions of the works of art of the 1920s devoted to the sport subject referring to the problem of expressing motion in painting and graphics. <...> The lost and little-known works which had an essential impact on the formation of the genre but insufficiently examined by Russian Art Studies shall be regarded. <...> And in particular, peculiarities of the pictures’ design of such masters as A. Deyneka, Yu. <...> The most extraordinary solutions of the problem of graphic expression of movement were proposed by representatives of Moscow Higher Art and Technical Studios (VHUTEMAS), having addressed the dynamic sports plots. <...> Plurality of the points of view and representation of the movement in various phases often express the dynamism of the object in art works; diagonal compositions with emphasis on geometrism are also used. <...> Having consolidated formal and analytical approach to the form and realistic vision of life and having assimilated traditions of new trends of the beginning of the 20th century, the VHUTEMAS representatives reconceived the expressiveness of composition in the easel painting. <...> Keywords: Soviet art of the 1920s, sports theme, motion, composite structures. <...> Introduction The steady and increasing public interest in the sport subject in the art of the Soviet period approves the relevance of article which also is testified by a number of retrospective exhibitions organized in Russia or abroad during preparation and in the course of the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in our country. <...> Art critics had an opportunity to reconstruct and study the ways of development of the Soviet art in which the subject © Siberian Federal University. <...> Unfortunately, the domestic Art Studies are limited to mentioning the research of the subject of sport of the 1920−1930s in fundamental works of the Soviet art or to covering this theme in articles which are generally accompanying catalogs of exhibitions of the corresponding trend. <...> Considering the ways of development of the sport subject, authors often disregard issues of emergence and formation of the painting Natal‘ia <...>