Abstract
This study examines the works of fine arts of Bukovinian artists, which contain the plot lines, pictorial elements or principles of composition inherent to the works of Renaissance artists. Peculiarities of transformation in painting and graphics of Bukovinian authors of the 20th – beginning of the 21st century of motives and stylistic features of the Renaissance are analyzed. The analysis of the impact of the European visual culture of the 15th–16th centuries allowed tracing the presence of diverse variants and levels of comprehension and application of both the individual elements and the inherent to the aforementioned period the composition-solving principles by numerous authors. The worldview and themes of not only the masters of the Italian Renaissance, but also of the Northern Renaissance, the graphic and painting heritage of artists of the Netherlands and Germany of the end of the 15th-16th centuries, in particular, became the starting point for Chernivtsi artists. In the works one can observe the quoting of certain motives, usage of iconographic schemes, as well as completely different reading of well-known plots, modern interpretation and addition to the latter of new symbols and features of the art of later times.
Highlights
The presence of certain influences in the painting and graphics of Northern Bukovina in 20th-21st centuries was quite rarely the subject of study by art critics
The influence of the art of the late Middle Ages and the German Renaissance is present in the work of one of the most famous Chernivtsi graphic artists of the 1920s and 1930s – Artur Kolnik (1890–1972), a graduate of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied by Józef Mehoffer
The analysis of the works of several masters who worked in Chernivtsi during the 20th–21st centuries allows us to talk about the variety of options for their use of artistic heritage of the Renaissance – from borrowing storylines and quoting individual motifs, reproduction of stylistic features – to the complete transformation of images, which leads to the emergence of a more complex and multidimensional work, in which the Renaissance style is complemented by features of art of later eras
Summary
The presence of certain influences in the painting and graphics of Northern Bukovina in 20th-21st centuries was quite rarely the subject of study by art critics This circumstance does not allow speaking about the existence of a sufficiently complete and objective history of the development of fine arts in the region as a whole and a comprehensive description of the stylistic features of the works of individual authors in particular. There is still no generalized work that analyzes in detail the variety of influences on the development of Bukovinian art culture of previous eras, in particular, the Renaissance, which proves the need to study the origins of artistic preferences of artists. Renaissance motifs in the works of these authors are present less in the form of plot lines, but in the principles of spatial composition, the use of individual images, plastic quotations and symbols that create meaningful and stylistic associations with worldviews and artistic principles of the Renaissance
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