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Ucraina tra forme e colori: una trasformazione dei percorsi storici

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Abstract

The article is an analysis of the peculiarities of the Ukrainian representative art. It is important that, in spite of not having its own State, Ukrainian ethnical group has produced a sort of “artistic homeland”, with images having a high symbolic meaning. The contradiction between occidental influences in other fields and an apparently traditional structure of religious representations is explicable. Especially, the article focuses on the great importance of color, as well as on the abundance of motives connected to joyful colors of nature in 19th and 20th century art, up to now. It is deduced that Ukrainian art tends to turn tragic events into perfect beautiful shapes based on nature and on the life cycle, and thus acquires a positive therapeutic aim.


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Submitted: Aug. 22, 2019 | Accepted: Sept. 4, 2019 | Published Dec. 16, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Icon • Ukrainian-Western cultural relations, art and poli • Visual cinema • Renaissance • Baroque • Folk art • History of art • Ukrainian religious art • Color • Form • Modern art

Copyright © 2019 Ksenija Konstantynenko. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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