Published June 24, 2023 | Version v1
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Collage as the Art of Responding to the Challenges of the Time in the Conditions of the Full-Scale russian Invasion

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine
  • 2. Kyiv Organisation of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Ukraine

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The aim of the article is to analyse the thematic content and technical methods used in the Ukrainian collage created after the full-scale russian invasion on 24 February 2022.

The results are the analysis of the student exhibition project of design collages Beyond, created within the discipline "Design-projection" and dedicated to the theme of russian aggression. Following the subject of practical tasks of the course – visual metaphor and visual allegory – young designers managed to create works that have been exhibited both domestically and internationally.

Scientific novelty. The corpus of graphic collages created mainly by the young generation of designers during the war and which capture the artistic reflections on the tragic events of 2022 are described, analysed, and introduced into scientific circulation. The main thematic directions are defined, the style and technical method of execution are diagnosed.

Conclusions. The works analysed in the article are a priceless manifestation of time, because they are made in stressful conditions: under shelling, without proper technical equipment, however, they are emotional reflections of reality, transferred to paper in the style of a collage. There is a revival of the Ukrainian collage tradition of the 1920s and 1930s, which emerged under the influence of constructivism and absorbed the best achievements of the Bauhaus school and was mostly used in publishing. Today, thanks to the development of computer technologies, collage demonstrates the ability to reproduce a wide range of thoughts and experiences of our contemporaries in an expressive manner of media art faster than other classical and established forms of visual art. Using such traditional forms of its existence as a paper work from newspaper and magazine clippings, collage masters also use modern graphic editors to create both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, and moving art objects. In the field of distribution of collage works, changes are taking place from physical display as part of practical exhibition activities to virtualisation through distribution in social networks.

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