Plein Air Sculpture as an Element of Landscape Design in the Vinnytsia Region of the Late Twentieth and Early Twentyfirst Centuries

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the specifics of the phenomenon of plein air sculpture in the context of landscape design in the Vinnytsia region of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Research methods. The study uses such methods as historical and comparative, empirical, factual and descriptive, and field research analysis (field survey of sculptures and interviews with artists). The scientific novelty of the study lies in the systematisation of new factual data on plein air sculpture in the context of landscape design. For the first time in domestic art history, genre and style features of some sculptural works that have not yet been published are considered. Primary source information from artists, in the form of actual interviews, was recorded. Conclusions. The study highlights the plein air sculpture formation process as a small architectural form of the parks’ design environment. On the basis of the artistic analysis, the influence of plein air sculpture on landscape design is comprehensively revealed, and various factors of in teraction “sculpture-space” are discovered. The evolution and prerequisites of the phenomenon of sculpture symposia in the world, in particular in Britain, Austria, and Norway, are demonstrated. As a result of the study of the origins of the emergence of sculpture plein airs in Ukraine, it is proved that the “Podilskyi Oberih” art movement, which emerged in the village of Busha, Vinnytsia region, had a positive impact on the cultural formation of the environment. In the course of the study, an art historical analysis of individual representative samples of the author’s sculptures created in different time periods was carried out. This made it possible to outline stylistic trends that gave impetus to the search for ideological and plastic trends, taking into account the factors of interaction between “sculpture-space”. The article studies the development of the Bushanskyi Park landscape environment design and describes several implemented design projects of small architectural forms.