Національний прояв тенденцій постмодернізму в образотворчому мистецтві
National Trends Display Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

Summary/Abstract: In the article on the basis of analysis of works of Ukrainian artists including S. Paradzhanov, O. Tistol, K. Reunov, A. Savadov, T. Silvashi, I. Chychkana, the specifics of manifestation of postmodern trends in national fine arts is identified. The author analyzes the current scientific views on the manifestation of postmodern philosophy in artistic culture and defines the main stylistic features of art postmodernism. Using of "others texts" and polystylism became one of the striking features of postmodernism. The central theme of postmodern art is becoming commonplace. Post-modern tendencies in Ukrainian art are especially apparent when compared with the trends of modern and modernism. The article provides a comparative analysis of the characteristics of modern, modernism and postmodernism in Ukrainian art. National traits of modern manifested themselves in the works of G. Narbut, M. Zhuk, V. Masyutyna, I. Myasoedov, V. Maksimovic, P. Cold, S. Levitsky, V. Piskorskiy, O. Kulchytska and others in the appeal to the Ukrainian principle in its various aspects – from inheritance of ancient tradition of monumental art and folklore to reproduction of ethnographic flavor. Unlike modern, pictorial modernism often refuses to imitate nature, laying its shapes by cubist and futuristic principles of the laws of dynamics. Specificity of Ukrainian modernism is a special lyricism, emotion, poetry and psychology, which indicate philosophical perception of reality. In the works of O. Bogomazova, V. Yermylova, A. Archipenko, A. Exter, A. Petritskiy and others instead of simple folk borrowings and stylizations inherent to modern, modernism tendencies are manifested in the reproduction of rhythmic language of colors, linear combinations of rhythm and color in the game of colorist passions. The combination of constructability and decorativeness is another specific feature of Ukrainian modernism. In modern Ukrainian art ideas of postmodernism embodied rather peculiar. You can define two poles of their manifestation, within which postmodernist search for Ukrainian artists is situated. First pole is the artistic intentions of A. Savadov, and the second is a more moderate strategy of O. Tistol. In general, unlike the works of foreign masters, you will notice the use of certain principles of modern and modernism in the creation of the national version of postmodernist art by Ukrainian artists. One of the brightest features of postmodernism in the visual arts is polystylism as a method of creative thinking. It was polystylism that became the "bridge" through which the entry of Ukrainian art to the peculiar for the world practice creative rhythm fulfilled. Representatives of polistylism do not deny the existence of artistic traditions, but they build their individual creativity using them, reaching a high level of artistry. The bright signs of polistylism and implementation of postmodernist idea of a game can be found in photo collages by S. Paradzhanov where classical images reflow, structure destroys and harmony turns into chaos. Polystylism as a method of thinking becomes the leader of hipertextuality. Artists, who create the art of hypertext, rather strongly opposed to any tradition. S. Paradjanov, T. Silvashi O. Babak, O. Chepelyk tend to hipertextuality. Postmodernism and its manifestation – hipertextual art, have absolute advantage in the process of birth of the image. Artistic image lives not only in space but also in time. Therefore, attraction of contemporary artists to the action that generates attention to video and film projection becomes obvious. Creative emancipation, which wiped out artificially imposed art, production of new tastes and preferences, the demand for which is realized in the work of contemporary artists, becomes outward manifestation of postmodern trends in Ukrainian art. Ukrainian painting of the late twentieth century demonstrates a new perspective on artistic creativity, authorship and social function of art. More often a modern artist recreates the atmosphere of the absurdity of life, in which he developed as a creative person. Visual art shows a lack of established values. In such an absence personal position of postmodernist artist which lies in indifference to life events gets a special role. Fine Arts also features the subjectivity of reaction to reality that generates game, clowning, carnivalization. Despite the originality of the historical situation in which has been developing Ukrainian postmodern art, it reflects the fundamental leading methodological, aesthetic and stylistic principles of postmodernism. Indisputable is the fact that most of the works of Ukrainian artists have a bright national coloring. However, their artistic ideas, images and means of artistic expression generally fit into the postmodern cultural paradigm.

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