TRADITIONS OF POLTAVA CARPET WEAVING IN THE ARTISTIC CULTURE OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The subject of the research is the traditions of making carpets from the Poltava region. The purpose of the work is to determine the artistic components of the development of Poltava carpet in the artistic culture of Ukraine of the XVIII – early XXI centuries. The methodology of work is based on a combination of the principle of scientific reliability and comprehensiveness, art history, cultural and design approaches, as well as axiological, ontological, hermeneutic, historical-genetic, comparative (historical-comparative), cultural, formal-stylistic and methodological analysis of art. The results of the work are designed to summarize the data on the traditional foundations of the classic Poltava carpet. Scope of results – today's artistic practices related to ethnic design, history of decorative and applied arts and art culture of Poltava region, art theory in the field of lordly, monastic and home carpets, creation of electronic courses for students and graduate students of creative specialties, development of educational sites and articles for encyclopedic and reference publications. Conclusions. It has been found that Poltava carpet weaving has ancient artistic traditions, rooted in the Baroque era. It is outlined that the techniques of making local carpets have not changed significantly during the last three hundred years, starting with the well-known carpet of Hetman Danylo Apostol. It is specified that the traditional lint-free carpets of Poltava began to be made not later than at the beginning of the XVIII century, when the aesthetic requirements of the then Ukrainian society appealed to the theory of Sarmatism with the corresponding vectors of oriental models to Western Asia and the Middle East. The connection of patterns of Poltava carpets of Ukraine of the XVIII – early XX centuries with ornamental and plot prototypes of European weaving centers in France of the Baroque-Empire period – Aubusson and Savoneri, which was in fashion for decor elements appealing to great European historical styles.

Key words: carpet weaving, Poltava region, Reshetylivka, Ukraine, XVIII – beginning of XXI centuries.