The iconography of the Ivan Honchar Museum: the heritage of collecting traditions
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https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-2180.41.2022.262945Abstract
The aim of the article is to reveal the main stages of formation of the museum collection of icon painting from the status of I. Honchar's private initiative to its belonging to the modern cultural and artistic center; to briefly describe these stages and identify key figures that contributed to the formation of the museum; to identify the values laid down by the founder of the museum, find out their significance for the development and development of the institution aimed at promoting and preserving folk art; to carry out an art analysis of samples of icon painting from certain regions of Ukraine: Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, and Eastern Podillya, which I. Honchar gave a general description to; to consider some fundamental provisions and issues of methodology that give an idea of the state of research of folk icon painting in Ukraine in the context of I. Honchar's views. Methodology. The method of system analysis was used to reveal these tasks. The historical-genetic and axiological method allowed us to trace the stages of formation of scientific thought regarding icon painting. Methods of stylistic and formal as well as iconographic analysis, methods of comparison, establishment of analogies were used in the assessment of artistic qualities of standard samples. Some technical and technological observations have supplemented the artistic analysis of folk icons. The scientific novelty of the work is that for the first time the significance of the figure of I. Honchar in the preservation and popularization of folk iconography is analyzed in it. Conclusions. All stages of the museum's formation and its further development take place in the context of the values, proclaimed by I. Honchar. In the process of artistic analysis of samples of folk icon painting, it turned out that the views of the founder can be developed and have confirmation in the research of modern scholars.
Keywords: I. Honchar, collection, folk icon, "imitation icon", methodology.
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