Master’s Art Photo Project “Ukrainian Renaissance”. Part 1: “Ukrainian Girl with a Pearl Earring. In the Footsteps of Jan Vermeer”

The author’s message for this Master’s photo art project consisted of creating a photographic work inspired by the Renaissance and Ukrainian traditions, folklore. A harmonious combination of the Renaissance heritage with the Ukrainian historical and cultural heritage, the disclosure of the concept of “renaissance” in two contexts. The Renaissance heritage is studied as world history and art era. The Ukrainian historical and cultural heritage analysis aims at reviving Ukrainian authenticity and its learning and implementation in a modern interpretation. Since the project’s author is fond of modelling and has participated in the organisation of different shootings for more than five years, and is also the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Visual Culture, it was decided to create a photo art project, where she would be a model and ideological organiser and draw parallels with the help of Fine Art. In this project, the Renaissance features are reflected through associative connections with famous paintings of artists in a new Ukrainian interpretation. The second concept of “renaissance” has the meaning of reviving Ukrainian values, customs, traditions through the symbolic image of a Ukrainian girl who appears in the photos of a photo art project in various roles. The series of works consists of portrait images of a girl following the theme of the project. In total, there are five series in the project.