VARIATIONS OF POSTMODERNISM IN THE PAINTING OF CHERNIVTSI ARTISTS

The purpose of the paper. Is to analyze the development of tendencies of postmodernism in the painting of Chernivtsi in the second half of the 20th – beginning of the 21st century and to identify its features in the works of individual authors. The methodology of the study consist in the use of methods of comparison and generalization, biographical and historical approach, art analysis. The scientific novelty is to reveal the specifics of visual practices of postmodernism in the art of Chernivtsi in general and the variety of manifestations of the latter in the works of artists of different generations. The conclusions. Postmodernism in Chernivtsi painting at the turn of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries is represented by a fairly large number of authors and a variety of manifestations, some of which received names that are already used in publications (crypto-realism in the paintings of G. Gorbaty, firstoism in the works of S. Virsta). Perhaps the first of such variations of postmodern art was the painting of P. Hrytsyk in the 1970s and 1980s, which emerged as one of the incarnations of nonconformism. The beginning of the 1990s was a time of active development and liberation of the region's art from the conventions of socialist realism, the change in the socio-political situation in Ukraine in general contributed to that. During this period in Chernivtsi work authors with different artistic tastes, who formed individual approaches to the creation of the world of images in painting. Some of these artists relied on the classical heritage, transforming it and giving a different sound to traditional plots (V. Kovalyuk, A. Prysyazhnyuk), others sought to find mythopoetics in the renewed perception of ancient symbols, the activity of textures and the integrity of color (