Mir Iskusstva

Refers to the style and movement organized and set in theory by Serge Diaghilev in 1898 in a publication called Mir Iskusstva and based on the ideas of Russian artists and writers active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The short-lived art movement (c.1898-c.1906) centers around the revival of Russian art through the rejection of foreign trends and abstention from zealous nationalism. The movement also provided precedent for the Symbolist and Aesthetic movements in Russia. The style is characterized by a combination of vigor and elegance, a sense of exoticism, and interaction and synthesis of the visual arts with and among other forms of art. Also refers to the exhibition society that began in 1910 after the disbanding of the movement.