EASEL PAINTING BY VALENTYNA VYRODOVA-HOTIE: TYPOLOGУ ОF WORKS

Abstract

Abstract. The purpose of the article is to analyze the creative work of the Kyiv artist Valentyna Gavrilivna Vyrodova-Hotie, to identify the figurative and meaningful elements of the compositional construction of works of painting as the basis for their typological systematization. The work uses art historical, historical, biographical, systemic, and typological research methods, as well as theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis, empirical methods of observation and comparison. The results obtained: thanks to the systematic analysis of the artist's easel works, within the traditional genre division of paintings into portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, their division is proposed according to the principles of taking into account the figurative and meaningful elements of the compositional construction, which is an important component of the artistic solution, specifically, the embodiment of the idea of anthropocentrism and life affirmation. As a result, based on the proposed typological distribution of easel works by V. Vyrodova-Hotie, the system of their ordering according to the criteria of compositional construction was identified and specified; the role of specific figurative and meaningful elements as factors of the semantic essence of the work was emphasized; the significance of the techniques and means of the artist's figurative language was clarified, which represents the consistent development of the traditions of the academic school as the highest level o f professionalism.