"Madonna Ukraine" in Ivan Karabyts’s Pop Song: View through the Prism of National Collective Thinking

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to substantiate the characteristic features of the “Madonna Ukraine” image as a corresponding archetype symbol of national collective thinking in Ivan Karabyts’s pop and song works. The research methodology is based on the use of cultural and analytical methods, on the identification of mental foundations and the result of the embodiment of the “Madonna Ukraine” archetype in the artist’s pop song. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the creation of a specified view perspective on Ivan Karabyts’s pop art. Conclusions. The conducted research made it possible to draw the conclusion that Ivan Karabyts transforms deep-mental primitives on a generalised level in the creation of the Native Land archetype. The artist creates the essence of the archetype of Ukraine as Madonna, Mother Earth and Woman, through the prism of reflecting the Aura and Memory categories (M. Kopytsia), as well as, let us add, of Love, Beauty, and Inspiration. The patriotism feeling is manifested with special filial respect and the national collective thinking cornerstones reveals in this. The feedback of such an artistic message in contemporary art, in our opinion, is a question that determines the prospects for further research into this issue.

Key words: Ivan Karabyts’s pop song, “Madonna Ukraine”, collective thinking, archetype, Ukrainian music.