THE ICONOGRAPHIC CANON IN THE LIGHT OF UKRAINIAN ARTS: FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM

Keywords: canon, canonical art, canonical specimens, icon, iconic canon, church canon in Orthodox iconography, iconographic canon, artistic canon of church creativity, iconic rules, art, art criticism, paracanon, Church.

Abstract

The article is analyzed the artistic category of the iconographic canon.
The author gives a number of terms that relate to the theory of art.The category of iconographic canon has not been studied in national art.In scientific exploration is given the answer to the question what is «canon», «iconic rule» «parallel canon» and others.An overview of the most famous definitions of the iconographic canon is made on the basis of elaborated authoritative sources.

Author Biography

Vitalii Kozinchuk, Ivano-Frankivsk Academy of John Chrysostom, leading researcher of Precarpathian Art Museum, Ivano-Frankivsk

Ph.D., member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Associate Professor of the Theology Departmen

Published
2020-03-10