Explication of traumatic experience due to russian armed aggression against Ukraine in 2014–2024 in the national street art

Abstract

The purpose of the article — culturologically comprehend the traumatic experience due to russian armed aggression against Ukraine in 2014–2024 in the national street art.
 The methodology of the research is based on the culturology approach combining study of arts and social and cultural methods of analysis of the representation of the traumatic experience in the national street art. The methodologic tools form the system approach (allowing to consider the street art in the system of interaction of processes and phenomena determined by the russian armed aggression in Ukraine), axiological approach (aimed at determination of the place of influence of urban art on the value universe of the traumatized subject), semasiological approach (allowing to consider the murals and graffiti as a sign system through which the communication of street artists and the society is carried out), typology method (to define the principal subject subgroups of patriotic graffiti and murals), structural and functional (aimed at definition of socially important functions of street art in the context of traumatic events).
 The results. It was found out that street art, namely graffiti and murals reflect, interpret and comprehend individual and collective experience of traumatic events caused by the predatory war of the russian federation. The principal subgroups of the patriotic wall painting were singled out that reflect the events and public spirits due to russian war aggression in Ukraine. The key functions of the national street art in conditions of the traumatic events were determined.
 The scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the research lies in multivector analysis of the representation of the traumatic experience due to russian armed aggression against Ukraine in 2014–2024 in the national art. The article materials may be used for further manuals, courses, articles in culturology, art studies, history of world culture etc.
 Conclusions. 2014–2024 show the decade signifying the traumatic events caused by the russian predatory war for the Ukrainian society. The trauma both on individual and collective levels is comprehended and visualized by the means of street art. Murals and graffiti as an art introspection of national street artists of the traumatic events found reflection in the patriotic themes (the theme of resistance and struggle of the Ukrainians, the theme of symbols and safeguards, the theme of honoring the military, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the theme of gratitude to the volunteers, the State Emergency Service, etc., the theme of realities and consequences of the war). The street art in the current trauma plays a series of important functions, in particular, communicative, therapeutic and predictive. Urban art is an art of action, resistance, support and consolidation, the site for discussion of the socially important issues, as well as comprehension of the traumatic events of the national history.