Ethnofuturism and myth-making in the fine arts of the peoples of the Ural-Volga region

This paper discusses the manifestations of ethnofuturism in the visual arts of the peoples of the Ural-Volga region and their relationship with myth-making. The results of the study showed that ethnofuturists, like myth-makers, touch upon the main periods in the history and culture of the people and strive to creatively rethink, interpret and evaluate the role of this or that event or cultural phenomenon in its fate, thereby creating a new version of ethnic history and / or a new model of the cultural system, different from the accepted scientific version. The multitude and variety of creative interpretations of the same images and plots leads to a large number of meanings and subtexts in the works of artists, which in no way can fully contribute to the revival of ethnic identity. A great creative flight from realism to surrealism is a consequence of the absence of clear stylistic boundaries in ethnofuturism, which were not laid down by the founders of the direction. The absence of boundaries and the will of creative flight introduce ethnofuturism into the sphere of myth-making, which manifests itself in the creation of images and plots not on the basis of folk ideas and images, but mostly on the basis of images rethought and interpreted by artists, which in some examples do not even allow identifying their belonging to a certain ethnic group.