UKRAINIAN FACTOR OF THE IDENTITY IN JACQUES HNIZDOVSKY’S EMIGRATION CREATIVE WORKS
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2018, Vol 316, Issue 304
Abstract
The article dedicated to Jacques Hnizdovsky (1915–1985), a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. The main objective of the article is to interpret the visual images of Hnizdovsky within the concepts of identity, pivotal for the understanding of the life of the Ukrainians after immigration because all the works of the author known to us today were created in exile. Thus, Hnizdovsky‟s various images (trees, grass, animals, household things, fruits etc.) reflected extremely complicated reactions of the artistic individual‟s psyche to the eradication of the events. Such events are deformation and destruction of the European modern cultural environment because of World War II, as well as establishing of the Soviet regime in Western Ukraine. At the same time, he transmits the experience of eradication to the world on behalf of all the emigrants. The allusion of lacking roots is one of the most popular motifs in his works. Images of Hnizdovsky remind about the trauma of migration and at the same time about the possibility to treat it, causing association with the native environment and native imagination connected with it. The visual images of sheep and rams have idyllic and ironic connotations, provoking reinterpreting of native senses and the sense of immigration. Nonetheless, it does not diminish the fact of the constant replication of the ethnic images of the domestic animals in the non-Ukrainian environment. Hnizdovsky‟s creative activities go out of the frame of the “cultural compensation” in its traditional meaning. People coming from different cultures feel the magnetism of his works. The artist‟s international recognition proves that he managed to create a universal visual discourse, where he successfully transcoded his personal experience and the experience of his compatriots and made it available for his contemporaries all over the world
Authors and Affiliations
T. P. Shestopalova
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