MYTHOPOETIC MODEL AS A RESEARCH TOOL FOR STUDYING THE MYTHOPOETICS OF SCULPTURE OF THE 20TH‑21ST CENTURIES

Abstract

In the 20th 21st centuries, a tendency to synthesise the «mythological» and the «artistic», which requires theoretical understanding, has been observed due to active mythologization of culture in general and of artistic practice in particular. The introduction of the concept of «mythopoetic model of sculpture» to denote an artistic structure which includes figurative and symbolic components of mythological origin and means of expression necessary for their implementation such as established and updated iconographic schemes, traditional and innovative ways of working with materials, etc., has become one of the solutions to this theoretical problem. The divergence of processes of transformation of ideological structures, which occur during this period, including mythological ones, has determined the specifics of the system of sculpture mythopoetics of the 20th 21st centuries and the formation of various types of mythological models in it.