Ukrainian Artistic Family as Part of the National Fine Arts Tradition: The Siryi Family Exhibition Dynasty. Three Epochs of Art

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the creativity of the Ukrainian artistic family as a space of deep archetypal and symbolic dialogue in diachrony and synchrony of cultural development on the basis of the family exhibition of Cherkasy artists Sirykh. The research methodology is based on the cultural and axiological approaches and the biographical method, which allow us to expand the study of the artistic worlds of family members, to comprehend the interaction of the individual and the common. Scientific novelty: For the first time, an attempt is made to consider the "existential mythorealism" of the Ukrainian artistic family, which develops over time and in the contexts of archetypal and symbolic dimensions of national culture, on the basis of which "common thinking" and "the existence of unity". The study concludes that the philosophical and artistic analysis of the Ukrainian artistic family includes the prerequisites for the emergence of a common field of visual images, the formal and substantive characteristics of which depend on the historical and cultural contexts of their origin, rootedness in national visual traditions, and individual aesthetic experience. The artistic work of Valentyn Siryi, Oksana Siryi, Maksym Siryi and Roman Siryi is revealed in a special existence of the unity of established archetypes and symbols of national culture. The "existential mythorealism" of the Gray family is manifested in visual images, in historical and ideological aspects of Ukrainian mythmaking.