CREATIVITY OF UKRAINIAN ARTISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FORMATION OF THE PARIS SCHOOL (FIRST THIRD OF THE 20TH CENTURY)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to recall the names of Ukrainian artists in the context of representing that powerful international association that took part in the creation of the Paris School. Today, the phrase Ecole de Paris is used mainly to designate works created by émigré artists in Paris in the 1900s – 1930s. Artists came here from all over the world, already having a basic artistic education obtained in schools and academies of Kyiv, Odessa, Krakow, Vienna, Munich, Berlin. As a social phenomenon, the Paris School encompasses the international environment of émigré artists who lived in Paris at the specified time. According to its pictorial and plastic characteristics, it includes artists who were associated with extreme avant-garde movements and were formed under the influence of post-impressionism, in whose work expressive tendencies were manifested. Throughout the 20th century, art historians were intrigued by the question: if the School of Paris was not created by the French, can it be considered French art? If not, whose art? French researchers quickly included in their area of interest artists who had gained world recognition, but they were still of little interest in second-rate foreigners, whose work remained hidden in cramped Parisian studios, and then forgotten. A kind of recognition of the phenomenon of the School of Paris – a foreign presence and participation in the artistic process that took place in the 20th century. in the French capital, was the exhibition “The School of Paris 1904–1929, Part of the Other”, which was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 2000–2001. The solid catalog of the exhibition covered only 82 of the brightest representatives, among whom were natives of Ukraine, but the catalog did not include hundreds of names. The article outlines the work of the most researched of them.