Rivne Artistic Textile School : formation, evolution, personalities

Abstract

Background. Since the 1960s Ukrainian artistic textile has been researched by S.Sydorovych, A.Zhuk, Ya.Zapasko, Z.Chehuseva, T.Pecheniuk, H.Kusko, Ye.Shymchuk, Z.Shulha, D.Bobiak, O.Yamborko, O.Nykorak, T.Lupii, O.Lukovska, O.Moisiuk studied regional features of folk weaving in history aspect. The fifth volume of The History of Ukrainian ornamental art published by M. T. Rylsky Institute of Art, Folklore Studies and Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is the important fundamental study where the researched issues are considered (2016). This volume presents the contribution of Rivne and Lviv artists Marta Tokar, Ivanna Tokar, Tetiana Lukashevych, and Olena Okhrymyk in general features. Separate aspects of Rivne artists’ creative work and school development are considered by A.Nikolaieva, N.Kosmolinska, O.Stashuk, I.Tokar etc. In modern times the complex research of Rivne art textile establishment and the issues of school development have not been presented that proves the importance of this paper. This study aims to outline social and cultural preconditions and features of Rivne Artistic Textile School establishment, give a short characteristic of its outstanding people creative work, and determine basic issues and ways of the development. The methodology is based on the complex approach including cultural, structural analysis and art study interpretation. This has provided the possibility using a system way to consider Rivne cloth art of the last decades as a complete art phenomenon. The scientific novelty concerns with regional characteristics of Rivne modern textile art. Results. Since last decades artistic textile having huge variety of its presentation has been becoming the field for new esthetic research and new point of view according to the surrounding on Rivne artistic map. This traditional ornamental branch is getting closer to pictorial art and in perfect manifestations it can even pretend to research modern social and human being conditions. The implementation and function of vocational art education were the important motivation to develop Rivne region artistic textile despite of weak institutional support especially in recent years. This paper studies beginnings and current issues of Rivne Cloth Art School becoming. New artistic senses are polished in the process of democratic competition through craftswomen creative ideas of different generations. This fact demonstrates the formation of Rivne Artistic Textile School. It is textile that is presented at international exhibitions among other kinds of arts including contribution of younger generation craftswomen. Simultaneously the author points out the issue of weak institutionalization of Ukrainian modern art on the local level. First of all it is revealed on the level of artifacts museification as the representation issue becomes the main one in the modern world. According to Rivne regional textile art the issue of centralized accumulation absence of modern works kept in artists’ studios is the most important one. This makes art utterances function more complicated for its research and interpretation. Artistic textile vocational school cooperation with Rivne Linen Factory (that existed till the 1990s) has interesting potential possibilities under the conditions of factors appearance that would let reanimate it or develop a new one. The author states that it can be the development of flax culture in Ukraine, expanding of enterprise ranges and other strategic structural initiatives. Conclusions. Rivne Artistic Textile School became the original branch of Lviv Arts and Crafts School. Focusing on regional folk weaving traditions Rivne modern craftswomen developed a new and unique artistic phenomenon characterized by the variety of its expressions in the semantic content and shape-created aspect. Rivne art-space analysis through the decentralization of artistic processes demonstrates that the leading role definitely belongs to art fabric in this process. Moreover this trend is powerful enough and artistic textile is a counterweight factor to the traditional painting centrism of Ukrainian art (including art-market). The next stage of the research aims to highlight imaginary system of separate art personalities. The study can be interpreted in such interdisciplinary aspects as cultural analysis, methodological points etc.