Review article
https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2018.103.03
Shaping Modernist Art Education in Ukraine in the First Third of the 20th Century
Lada Nakonečna
orcid.org/0000-0002-0831-6857
; National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
Abstract
The first higher art institution in Ukraine — Ukrainska Akademiia Mystetstva [the Ukrainian Academy of Art], founded in 1917 in Kyiv — was meant to be modern. Educational reforms and discussions held there reflected the general processes of Ukrainian culture at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, marked by the modernist shift, the cultural environment of Ukraine was experiencing a fierce ideological struggle, searching for a new direction that would be relevant to modernity. At the beginning of the Soviet era, different, and sometimes oppositional, art tendencies co-existed in the Art Institute that replaced the Academy. At that time, issues were raised of building a new socialist reality, national and international, aesthetical and socio-political, of a pure form and practical use. During its formative years, the Kyivskyi Khudozhnii Instytut [the Kyiv Art Institute] was not only a laboratory for developing modernist styles, but also the main organizing centre of a new Ukrainian-Soviet culture, thus becoming an authority of control.
Keywords
modernism; national art; Ukrainian art; academy of arts; art education
Hrčak ID:
215866
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Publication date:
1.12.2018.
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