MONTAGE AS A FORM OF ARTISTIC THINKING IN THE WORKS OF UKRAINIAN AVANT-GARDE ARTISTS

Abstract

The study aims to highlight the concept of understanding the category of montage as a cultural phenomenon that realizes itself as a formative principle of cultural morphology and represents the artistic embodiment of the worldview and socio-cultural attitudes of modernism. Without pretending to be comprehensive, the research focuses on the artistic and technological universality of montage as a tool of artistic perception and reflection of reality in various types of art of the Ukrainian avant-garde of the first third of the twentieth century. On the basis of scientific works,the author determines the representativeness of montage in its species variants, the carriers of which are artistic works designed from elements with different spatial, temporal, iconographic, and stylistic nature. It is noted that montage in the building of works of art has been used since ancient times, before the appearance of the term itself, one of the main creative techniques and an independent artistic phenomenon it became only in the culture of the twentieth century, in the era of modernism and postmodernism that followed. The author sees further study of montage as one of the meaning-forming principles in the artistic and aesthetic system of postmodernism with a tendency to merge not only different types of art, styles, genres and forms, but also the general intellectualisation of art. The artistic experiments of the Ukrainian avant-garde artists were directly inspired by the birth and spread of cinema, on the one hand, and played a key role in its evolution as a new art form, on the other. The artists’ radical discoveries in the representation of modernity, the peculiarities of the city, and the crowded street gave rise to montage theories based on the principles of counterpointing the frames of the reflected reality. Moreover, the montage language, as an element of artistic thinking of the era, became a leading way of understanding the organization of action in the nature of the new life, and the best artists turned to it in their radical search for new forms and content.