Творчість Никодима Зубрицького в дослідженнях українського національного стилю Костянтина Широцького

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The purpose of the article is to focus attention on the personality of Kostiantyn Shyrotsky (1886-1919) and his understanding of Ukrainian national style, as well as his mentioning the art of Nikodem Zubrzycki, a prominent engraver (end of the 17th c.– beginning of the 18th c.). The research methods included dialectic interdisciplinary approach, biographical and comparative methods, iconographical and formal stylistics analysis. Being a unique figure in Ukrainian culture, K. Shyrotsky during his short life was engaged in research in the fields of history, archeology, history of art and culture, ethnography, folklore, and local history. Fundamental education, numerous field expeditions allowed the scholar to formulate his vision of the Ukrainian national style regarding religious painting, decorative art, graphics and architecture. The researcher believed that the Ukrainian national style should be based on folk art and national spiritual heritage, but also be relevant to modern European cultural trends. The personality of N. Zubrzycki and/or his iconography attracted the attention of K. Shyrotsky in author’s numerous works. The engraver worked in key places for Ukrainian culture - Lviv, Univ, Pochaiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv. Zubrzycki depicted not only the religious plots, but also the landscape, animals, and everyday scenes, created a grand series of allegorical images based on the Bible, mythology, philosophy and literature, used European iconography and creatively transformed it, producing in turn prototypes imitated by the Ukrainian and foreign masters. Zubrzycki has certainly been one of the creators of the Ukrainian national style, for his images were still popular in folk art almost 200 years later, which Shirotsky noted. The results of our research determine the contribution of N. Zubrytskyi to the development of Ukrainian art, its genre diversity, and the formation of the national style through the vision of Kostiantyn Shyrotsky who was one of the first to note this role of Zubrzycki. Conclusions. The study allowed to formulate the peculiarities of Ukrainian national style in art which are realism, allegorical sense and moralization, plot modernization and decorativeness, and to demonstrate their presence in the works by N. Zubrzycki.