ABSTRACTION IN THE FINE ARTS: EXPLORATION OF ODESSA

ION IN THE FINE EXPLORATION OF ODESSA The paper is a study that comprehensively examines abstract artistic expression in the context of artistic culture of Odessa, it is analyzed the premise of the emergence, formation, and features of the manifestations of the abstraction in the fine arts of this South-Ukrainian cultural center. It is offered a new view of abstraction as a unique artistic form, based on universal cultural codes that operate from the past to the present. The methodological and theoretical concept of this research determined the complex approach and consisted in applying the system-analytical and comparative-historical method in the studied features of the development of abstract elements in the Fine Arts of Odessa’s cultural and artistic region. It is provided objective representations and knowledge about the reliability of their properties, features, content, and dynamics of their development. In this context, the formal method used to analyze the artistic achievements of Odessa artists in the sphere of Abstract Art. The analysis of the processes of formation and manifestations of abstraction in the art practices of the Odessa region demonstrates a stylistic connection to the heritance of Ukrainian Folk Culture, Ancient Artistic Culture and is based on the assets of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde. It is noted the interdependence of spatial and temporal relations, having certain milestones of activation in development and conditioned by socio-political processes. Scientific novelty of the study consisted of a new view to abstraction as a transhistorical style of art, which expresses the centuries-old ethnocultural and artistic experience of generations. It is expanded the established inferences of domestic and foreign art studies, which connect it with manifestations of abstractionism as one of the directions of the art of modernism. Practical significance is due to the expansion and deepening of the theoretical and methodological basis for the scientific research of the modernization processes that take place in contemporary culture and the Non-Objective Art.