ARTISTIC NONCONFORMISM OF TRANSCARPATHIA OF 1960–1980: INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND AND PERSONALITIES

Abstract

The article attempts an artistic and aesthetic analysis of modern art of Transcarpathia in the 1960s – 1980s, defined as nonconformism and underground, arguing that artists really contradicted the established philosophical, ethical, aesthetic codes of society and directed their art to self-expression. Having analyzed art processes in Transcarpathia during the Khrushchev «Thaw» and the 1980s, the authors have outlined the preconditions of manifestation and dissemination of ideas of nonconformism in the artistic environment of Transcarpathia and in the works of P. Bedzir, E. Kremnytska and F. Seman. The article conveys the idea that the artistic underground environment of Transcarpathia is a definite and courageous response of creative personalities to the reactionary social phenomena of the 1960s – 1980s, and the general analysis of alternative painting genre of Transcarpathia in the 1970s – 1980s reveals a wide range of influences both of world art trends and features of ethno-culture of Transcarpathia. The works of F. Manailo, E. Kremnytska, P. Bedzir, F. Seman, Y. Cherni were distinguished by their individual technique of creating compositions, the search for new methods of shaping, which rather corresponded to the state of enlightenment. Unlike artistic manifestations in the spirit of socialist realism,