VISUAL INTEGRATION OF SCULPTURE IN FORMING THE IMAGE OF THE CITY

Abstract

This work examines the issue of the phenomenon of modern sculpture and its influence on the formation of urban space. It has been established that Ukrainian sculpture is a young art that has undergone changes of generations and aesthetic views. Modern sculpture, creating new and modifying existing cultural and symbolic images of settlements, plays an extremely important role in creating the effect of authenticity of urban space, strengthens its cultural, artistic and historical meaning, is a kind of effective means of actualizing cultural memory. It is renewed not only according to the laws of the internal logic of classical fine art, but also inspired by external tectonic factors. 
 The image of the city creates, first of all, spiritual and scientific life, forming its cultural, artistic and intellectual states, a certain level of quality of the social dimension - aspirations and needs of residents, culture and art, consciousness and language. 
 It is small urban sculpture designed to create or emphasize the uniqueness and originality of each specific place, designed to awaken imagination and emotions. After all, it is precisely through it that the connection between architecture and fine art is possible, which aestheticizes the environment and life of a person, appealing to his feelings and thinking at the same time, brings variety and harmony, which are so necessary for a person. 
 As you know, a small plastic form attracts a person with its proportionality: it makes you want to approach it, touch it, take a picture. It is an integral and sometimes decisive part of the communication between the city and the person. It is the sculptures that make the city understandable, pleasant and accessible to people. A small urban sculpture can transform an ordinary space or strengthen existing advantages and place accents in a saturated historical center.