The problem of adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the city (Ukrainian context)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to carry out cultorologic comprehension of the adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the Ukrainian city and to define the directions of the city environment humanization.
 The topicality of the article. The street art became the inherent part of the social and cultural environment of the city, the ground for artistic self­expression, visual ring for discussions, conflicts and a means for promotion and branding of the city. Despite the humanization of the city environment, the issue of adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the city remains still urgent and open.
 The methodology is based on application of the hermeneutic interpretation (to define the notion of the “street art” at the modern stage of research), comparative analysis (with the purpose to detect the peculiarities of the process of the street art integration into the cultural landscape of the city environment), structural and functional method (to clarify the prospective adaptation directions of the urban art into the urban cultural environment), axiological approach (to define the role of the street art in the cultural and artificial development of the city). The central position in the research is allotted to culturological approach allowing to clarify the specific features of the street art adaptivity into social and cultural environment of the city, to reveal the peculiarities of the multicultural city environment formation.
 The scientific novelty lies in theoretic comprehension of the process of the street art adaptivity into social and cultural environment of the city and detection of the priority ways of the urban art integration into the cultural matrix of the city.
 The results. Variability of the street art interpretation in the context of the city environment was considered. The specifics of the street art existence at the modern stage of the research was defined. The prospective directions of the urban art integration into the cultural landscape of the city was traced: differentiation at the legislative level of the notions “street art” and “vandalism”, application of the urban art in design of the city environment and creation of the city brand, application of the information and communication technologies in creation of the artistic objects, tourist guides, etc.
 The practical significance. The research results may be used in training the higher education applicants in the social and art fields of knowledge, for example, lecture materials of the disciplines aimed at the study of ХХІ century culture, mass culture, urban science, etc.