MODERN UKRAINIAN ICON PAINTING TRENDS

• Main Author: Oleksandr Tsuhorka
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts 2019-06-01
• Series: Вісник КНУКіМ: Серія Мистецтвознавство
• Subjects: сучасний іконопис; сакральне мистецтво; українське бароко; авторська стилізація; синтезований підхід; іконописні традиції
• Online Access: http://arts-series-knukim.pp.ua/article/view/172708

The purpose of the article is to determine the prospects for the development of Ukrainian icon painting of the 21st century in the context of the revival of national sacred art. Methodology of the research. The historical-comparative method was used to study the dynamics of development of the Ukrainian Baroque style; the method of stylistic art history analysis - to determine the features of technical and technological methods and pictorial stylistics in the works of modern Ukrainian icon painters; the typological and system-structural methods - to identify the individual style features of baroque icon-painting traditions with academic technique and innovative trends combination. Scientific novelty. The research has developed the specificity of the synthesis of Ukrainian academic painting with the art traditions established in the epoch of Ukrainian baroque in the context of the development of sacred art in Ukraine in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Creative methods and aesthetic principles of leading Ukrainian icon painters have been studied. The tendencies and prospects for the development of baroque icon-painting traditions in Ukrainian sacred art in accordance with the specifics of the social art space of the 21st century are indicated. Conclusions. Ukrainian icon painting of the 21st century is open to new artistic trends, while maintaining the unique flavour of traditional sacred art and national culture that has been developed over a long history. Now there is a synthesis of new trends, innovative artistic solutions and traditional motifs of national church art from different periods based on the development of a huge artistic heritage. The icon-painting of the Ukrainian Baroque epoch, characterized by unique stylistic features, principles of aesthetically sensual and spiritual beauty, for many contemporary artists is the pillar for a creative quest, a synthesized approach and author’s pasticcio, an organic combination of ancient icon-painting traditions and modern aesthetic requirements, which are reflected in the strengthening of realism elements, folk symbolism, and naturalistic features of national ideals typification.