Особливості інтерпретації імпресіоністичних тенденцій в українському мистецтві

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the interpretation peculiarities of the impressionistic trends in Ukrainian art. Impressionism as the first modernist style has a huge impact on world art, been marked in it both by new purely formal, plastic and also world-view features. Ukrainian art hasn’t also avoided it and attracts its experience to the search for a new artistic language of the turning point in the artistic development of the period of the late 19th – early 20th century in its own way. Although impressionism hasn’t formed a definite exact trend in Ukrainian art, its ideas, in particular, the individualization of artistic vision, subjectivity of perception, colour expressiveness mark a new stage of its development and keep their relevance for a long time. The sources of impressionistic influences in Ukrainian painting at the turn of the 19th – early 20th century, the contradictions of its interpretation by critics and artists, the peculiarities of impressionism significance in the works of avant-garde artists (D. Burliuk, O. Bohomazov, K. Malevich) are considered in the article. A great importance of a large exhibition Impressionism in Ukraine in the phenomenon representation is emphasized. The event has been held on December, 2009 – March, 2010 at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyiv. A range of impressionistic interpretations in Ukrainian painting of the late 19th – early 20th century is submitted for the first time. An attitude to the trend during the next periods of the history of Ukrainian art, namely in the post-revolutionary 1920s, 1930s – 1950s, 1960s – 1970s, is analyzed in the article. These are the periods, when impressionism as a bourgeois artistic trend has been “deleted” from the Soviet art because of the establishment of socialist realist doctrine. It has been returned gradually into the artists’ creative practices in the following years. Impressionism has preserved its attractiveness until the 1970s due to the peculiarities of the art development in the Soviet conditions (isolation from the world experience, shortage of extensive information about Ukrainian art of the pre-Soviet times) despite its historicity and close connection with art of the turn of the 19th – 20th century.