Ivan Driapachenko: the artist's personality and philosophical and religious aspects of creativity

Abstract

Purpose of Article. On the basis of biographical analysis and the psychological portrait of
I. Drapanchenko (1881–1936), to investigate the treatment in his work of philosophical and
religious categories: God, being, happiness, motherhood, life, death. The methodology is general
scientific methods – art history analysis, systematization, a generalization of the topic under study.
The scientific novelty. The disclosure of philosophical motives in I. Driapachenko's works is a new
approach to the scientific developments of his easel and graphic heritage. Therefore it will be
interesting in the study of Ukrainian fine arts of the first third of the twentieth century.
Conclusions. Combining psychological, biographical and creative facts of the I. Driapachenko's
life makes it possible to assert that he was inherent in the philosophical attitude to life, boundless
love for his native land, friendship and humanity, the pursuit of the search for happiness. Difficult
conditions of life or extreme circumstances of creative work did not affect the artist. The painting
"Madonna under the apple tree" shows the eternal human values. Graphic works "Galicia. Russian
graves near the church in the town of Gorozhanka" and "Baby funeral" give an idea of the mystery
and transience of life. The artist expresses general philosophical thoughts about earthly existence.
The religious plot of the "Holy Family" shows only earthly feelings. Knowledge of the nature of I.
Drіapchenko will help in the study of his artistic heritage in the development of Ukrainian art of the
first third of the twentieth century.
Key words: I. Driapachenko, philosophy, religion, Kozelshchinsky Church of the Nativity of
the Blessed Virgin, First World War