Style as a Topical Category of Modern Musicology and Music Education

"The aim of the work is to arrange the scientific achievements on the category of “musical performing style” and identify mechanisms for practical testing of theoretical provisions in the pedagogical activities of higher musical education institutions. The research methodology is based on a combination of general scientific and musicological approaches, in particular: system approach hermeneutic, historical, comparative, genre-style, interpretive method, as well as performance analysis. The results of the study indicate that domestic art schools were formed by synthesizing several national and historical style traditions. Music and performance schools were actively developing in parallel with the compositional work in Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century; the work of representatives of those schools presents a fairly wide range of style research. A natural result of the studied problem of musical performing style should be its transfer to the practical plane of professional education of musicians and performers, formation of musical style competence in students. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts was selected as an experimental platform for its formation. During 2019-2021, a pedagogical experiment continued to test the formation of musical and style thesaurus, performance and intellectual skills, professionally important qualities of music students. In the context of studying of different styles in the system of musical performance by the students of higher music education institutions, it is important that the art of music is constantly evolving and new directions and trends in music styles emerge almost every day in Ukraine and the world as a whole. This undoubtedly makes the need for further research on this issue urgent (usually with the use of advanced domestic and foreign experience in music education). Keywords: Style. Category. Art. Musical work. Musicology. Music education. Educational process. Organizational and methodological system."

Variability of artistic and aesthetic features of social dance Brazilian Zuk and its bedding

The purpose of the article is to identify the genre, stylistic and rhythmic specifics of the social dance Brazilian Sound, as well as to theorize the artistic and aesthetic features of the new dance backgrounds developed on its basis. Methodology. A typological method was applied, thanks to which the main characteristics of the social dance Brazilian Zuk were determined; figurative-stylistic and formal-stylistic method, which helped to identify a system of typical forms and lexical features inherent in the dance and developed on its basis substrates; the method of comparative analysis, which revealed the common and distinctive features of the traditional social dance Brazilian Sound and innovative backgrounds created on its basis; method of theoretical generalization, which helped to summarize the results of the study. Scientific novelty. The process of origin and development of one of the most popular social dances of the XXI century is studied. Brazilian Zuk; the compositional features of the Brazilian Sound were identified and analyzed; For the first time in domestic art history the genre-stylistic and rhythmic features of the main sub-styles (Rio-zouk style, Porto-Seguro style, M-zouk, Neo-zouk) and sub-styles (Modern zouk, Soulzouk R&B zouk) of the Brazilian Zuk are considered and the specificity of their art is revealed. aesthetic variability. Conclusions. The study found that the Brazilian Sound is an independent style of modern dance art, which is characterized by a number of features: the atmosphere of performance (platforms for social dances, dance conferences, seminars, etc.); creating a composition of the Brazilian Sound is usually a collective process - the authorship of style and background belongs to talented dancers, who are endowed with the gift of improvisation and specific temperament; special individual type of dance movement: the basic sequence of steps is connected with metrorhythmic features of musical accompaniment; a specific combination of plasticity, flexibility, and rotations creates individual dance backgrounds: acrobatic Acro Zouk, smooth Flow Zuk, contrast Zuk Revolution, improvisational M-zuk, inflammatory Lambazuk, philosophical-hypnotic Neo-zuk, and others. Prospects for innovative research in the field of genre-style interaction of the Brazilian Sound and modern dance trends are the unique basis of dance, which is positioned as the initial impetus for further lexical and rhythmic-intonational choreographic experiments and depends on the peculiarities of musical material. Keywords: Brazilian Zuk, social dance, artistic and aesthetic features, M-zuk, Neo-zuk, Lambazuk.

The Experimental Research on Stylized Teaching Method Used in the Art Guidance of Chinese Undergraduates (Piano Accompaniment) — Take the Teaching of Haidun Piano Sonata as an Example

The major of piano accompaniment has been very popular, but it is very short of the professional director, and the art guidance courses are various. But, the technology and method of piano accompaniment are the compulsory courses however it is divided. In the class and practice activity, stylized teaching must be practiced, which can not only make the students better learn the artistry of the work via the art guidance courses, but it also makes the student have more feelings about the work. In the recent years, the domestic art has been increasingly developing and gradually improved, and piano accompaniment has been a type of profession, which has attracted much attention in the field. Above all, in the paper, it researches and analyses the teaching practice of piano accompaniment to ascertain how to achieve better stylized teaching to indeed improve the quality of art guidance of the Chinese undergraduates, and at the same time to assist Chinese art to get a further development.

PROBLEMS OF TERMINOLOGY WITHIN THE CONCEPT OF «UKRAINIAN LAND ART»

Fundamental art studies in the field of land art are not yet available in Ukraine, and individual articles in periodicals do not reveal the principles of the formation of the actual Ukrainian art of the environment, its features and differences from abroad land art. To date, the phenomenon of Ukrainian land art has not received its own term and for thirty years in a row uses the borrowed foreign name «land art», while the uniqueness of domestic environmental art is an indisputable fact. The article considers the peculiarities of the formation of land art abroad and in the system of Ukrainian contemporary art. The analysis and clarification of terminology related to land art in Ukraine has been carried out. The author's term for the phenomenon of the Ukrainian land art is offered. The study found that the application of the foreign term «land art» to the domestic art of interaction with the environment is not exhaustive, because it does not reveal the full range of creative communication of artists with the environment and is too narrow in relation to it. At that time, the term «mystectvo dovkillja» («art of the environment»), introduced by P. Bevza, is too wide a range of artistic creativity, where «environment» is used in the sense of «environment» as one that contains the entire surrounding space. Therefore, it isn't inexpedient to apply the foreign term «land art» to the creative practices of Ukrainian artists. At the same time, «art of the environment» is too abstract a concept for the term «land art», which aims at a specific creative interaction with the earth. Environmental art aims to decorate and equip a person's place of residence, which expresses his utilitarianism and may include: both landscape art and landscape design and monumental art, site-specific art, ecological art, as preservation and repair of the Earth's resources, etc. Domestic artists work with natural materials in the natural environment in order to create a new art product. Accordingly, instead of the term «Ukrainian land art» it is appropriate to use the term «pryrodotvorche mystectvo» («natural creative art»), because the context of the Ukrainian art form is characterized by creative interaction with the natural environment and materials as a way to create a new art product. Theoretical research of the work is the basis for further in-depth scientific development of the problem, namely, the phenomenon of land art in the system of contemporary art of Ukraine.

The graphic heritage by Ferdinand Hodler in Swiss collections

Данная статья посвящена изучению графического наследия Фердинанда Ходлера. Эта часть творчества швейцарского художника малознакома отечественным исследователям и практически не изучалась. Впервые в отечественной искусствоведческой науке автор предпринимает попытку заполнить эту лакуну в изучении наследия знаменитого европейского мастера. Целью данной работы является намерение высветить и кратко охарактеризовать основные собрания, систематизировать рисунки и наброски по тематическому и функциональному признаку и проанализировать их с точки зрения стилистической эволюции, художественной направленности и техники исполнения. В швейцарских музейных и частных собраниях в Цюрихе, Берне, Женеве, Базеле, Веве и других местах сохранено несколько тысяч рисунков и набросков Ходлера. Они высвечивают эволюцию художественного языка мастера от натурного наблюдения и научного изучения формы к созданию идеализированных образов, образов-символов, актуальных для вызовов искусства рубежа XIX–XX веков. Как показывают швейцарские собрания, рисунки художника преимущественно являлись композиционной и исследовательской частью работы над символистскими холстами, монументальными работами, портретами и пейзажами. С точки зрения типологии им применялись быстрые наброски и штудии, многочисленные композиционные и комбинаторские варианты одной темы, которые складывались в серии и циклы. Главным выразительным элементом графики Ходлера являлась экспрессивная и мощная линия. Новизна его художественного мышления состояла в применении теории параллелизма. Художник организовывал формы в своеобразные субъективные орнаментальные коды. В рисунках Ходлер проявил себя одновременно как классик в смысле отношения к форме и как модернист в плане художественно-аналитического подхода к работе над композицией. Швейцарские собрания графического наследия позволяют осмыслить творческий метод художника, так же как и эволюцию его творчества в целом. Философский, композиционный и технический опыт Фердинанда Ходлера, сконцентрированный в его графическом наследии, по-прежнему актуален для теоретиков и практиков изобразительного искусства. This article explores the graphic heritage of Ferdinand Hodler. This part of the work of the Swiss artist is insufficiently known to the domestic researchers and has practically not been studied. For the first time in the domestic art science, the author tries to fill this gap in the studies of the heritage of the famous European master. The purpose of this work is to highlight and briefly describe the main collections, systematize drawings and sketches according to thematic and functional characteristics and analyze them from the point of view of the stylistic evolution, the artistic direction and the execution technique. Several thousands of Hodler's drawings and sketches have been preserved in Swiss museums and private collections in Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Basel, Vevey and other places. They highlight the evolution of the artistic language of the master from natural observation and the scientific study of form to the creation of idealized images, images-symbols that are relevant to the challenges of art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. As shown in the Swiss collections, the drawings of the artist were mainly an integral compositional and exploratory part of the work on the Symbolist canvases, monumental works, portraits, and landscapes. From the point of view of typology, he used the quick sketches and studies, numerous compositional and combinatorial versions of the same theme, which took shape in series and cycles. The main expressive element of Hodler's graphics is the expressive and powerful line. The novelty of his artistic thinking was in application of the theory of parallelism. The artist organized forms into peculiar subjective ornamental codes. In his drawings, Hodler showed himself both as a classic in terms of his attitude to the form and as a modernist in terms of his artistic and analytical approach to work on composition. The Swiss collections of Hodler's graphic heritage allow us to comprehend the artistic method of the artist, as well as the evolution of his work in general. The philosophical, compositional, technical experience of Ferdinand Hodler, concentrated in his graphic heritage, is still relevant for theorists and practitioners of the visual arts.

Creativity of K. Malevich in the context of development of world and domestic art culture

The purpose of the article is to establish the contribution of Ukrainian avant-garde artist, pedagogue, theorist Kazymyr Severynovych Malevych to the Ukrainian and world pictorial art. The methodology consists of a range of methods: historical, biographical, theoretical. The abovementioned methodological approach allows studying the question of historical data relating to the events in Ukraine that led to the emigration waves, finding out certain biographical facts and analyzing the artist’s creative activity. The scientific novelty of the research is in establishing Kazymyr Malevych’s contribution to the development of the Ukrainian and world pictorial art. We have studied the special features of his art, theoretical works and teaching activity, as these were an important factor in preserving and popularizing the Ukrainian culture. Conclusions. Malevych’s life and art have become the valuable heritage of the whole world. He influenced the development of visual arts with his activity and personally created direction in abstractionism. Guided by his own research and artistic search, he established a new direction in avant-garde art – suprematism, which became a unique phenomenon for fine art. His style was a major influence for visual arts, architecture and design. Malevych elaborated his own manner of teaching art to students. He was followed by Ukrainian and German constructivists, American minimalists and French abstractionists. His creative ideas are still relevant to this day.

Metaphysics of postmodern figurative art in Ukrainian art of the late XX - early XXI century

The purpose of the article is to study the artistic traditions and conceptual innovations in the works of Ukrainian artists of the XX-XXI centuries. In contemporary Ukrainian art, figurative language is produced simultaneously with the renewal of public consciousness and in certain aspects directly contributes to its formation. Figurative imagery using Ukrainian artists of this cultural period is not only the result solely of sensory experience, they also absorb the institutionalization of social experience that allows them to reflect different levels of reality. The methodology is the cultural-semiotic analysis of the forms of manifestation of visualization of modern art culture. The application of a systematic approach allowed us to study semiotic systems that contribute to the comprehensive disclosure of the problem of the semantics of modern forms of visualization. The integrative approach has enabled research in new forms of visualization of modern artistic language, which combines informational and aesthetic functions. Due to the revealed changes, traditional images are visualized with the help of a new artistic language, which does not correspond to the traditional meanings of the artistic image. The scientific novelty of the work lies in understanding the metaphysics of postmodern figurative art in contemporary Ukrainian art. A characteristic feature of the development of modern culture is the rapid social transformation, covering all areas of human activity. For the structure of art, the nature of which is due to constant change and renewal, the problem of the relationship between tradition and innovation is important. Thus, contemporary artists in their figurative, non-figurative and conceptual practices use the memory of artistic culture and artistic traditions as a mediator between the past and the present. Ukrainian art practitioners build a multiple and diverse artistic and image system based on the mechanism of interaction of traditions and innovations, involvement in the creative process of specific stylistic combinations of past and present, and reflection on cultural realities. Conclusions. Ukrainian culture is being revived in the following main directions: the process of self-consciousness and the formation of national historical memory has intensified, and the vector of development of social consciousness has been determined. Also, due to the weakening of totalitarian control, upgraded ideological and spiritual social norms. In the context of freer cultural development, artists use simple and clear images in various unusual contexts, often visualizing the determinants of the renewal of the collective consciousness. At the same time, the entry of domestic art into the world art arena meant the urgent need for rapid change in all spheres of art. This speed led to a number of complex problematic issues related to the difficult interaction of traditions and innovations, as well as folk and classical in contemporary art, determined the formation of a new series of images.

Sverdlovsk Art and Cultural Patronage of the Red Army: Prehistory of Relations and the Process in the Post-War Period (1946–1952)

The topic of interaction between artists and the armed forces of the USSR before the Great Patriotic War and after it is a subject of study for historians, cultural scientists, philologists, theater critics, film critics, art historians. Nevertheless, the visual art of Sverdlovsk in the aspect of analysis and description of cultural and patronage relations of artists with the Red Army has never been the object of special study. The proposed article is, in fact, one of the first, if not the only scientific work to date, based on the introduction to the practice of domestic art studies, the history of Soviet art, information and data on the emergence and development of contacts between artists of Sverdlovsk and military personnel in the framework of patronage of the creative intelligentsia of the Red Army in 1946–1952. The period of the 1920–1930s is considered also on the basis of archival documents, making outlines of the more accurate data on patronage ties between RABIS, the Organizing Committee of the Union of Artists Sverdlovsk branch and the Soviet military personnel in the Ural military district.

Synthesis of academic and modern practices of learning sculpture in creative universities of kazakhstan

The article put attention on the need for a methodological collaboration analysis of the academic and modern types of teaching sculpture in the specialized creative colleges and universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the modern educational and aesthetic discourse. The main research problem focuses on identifying and characterizing the most relevant educational theoretical and practical methods that can significantly increase the level of domestic art education in the art of sculpture. The author believes that a comprehensive scientific analysis of the educational potential of the Kazakhstani aesthetic originality of modern sculpture, its history and technical and technological features will give a possibility to understand deeply and see the big picture of the art education role in the general socio-cultural canvas of sovereign Kazakhstan. At the moment, the Kazakhstani art education system is on a peripeteia and it is necessary to clear the choice between academic and contemporary art practices or their harmonious synthesis. This work is devoted to these question’s analysis and the author's research work disclosure.