author: Iryna Lazorevych
Urgency of the research. Scientists, pastors, and artists are actively looking for a universal language that would describe the interaction between modern art and religion. Modern artists can serve religion with their talent and aesthetic insight, and religious meanings can contribute to the depth of aesthetic interest. At the same time, in Ukrainian religious studies, there is a lack of research on the connection of religion and religiosity with the modern artistic forms. This article is one of the attempts to contribute to filling such a research lacuna.
Target setting. The sacred is concentrated not only in religious dogmas and confessional practices. These can be places, traditions, actions and rituals associated not only with faith, but also with social practices that involve going beyond the everyday. The situation is similar with religious forms expressed in art. While maintaining an orientation towards the sacred, artists often combine the dynamics of the interaction of the finite, earthly, human and eternal and unchanging in its depiction in a different way.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The work of such authors as J. Baas, B. Williamson, B. Dodge, J. Rowley, E. Madden, S. Abramovych, M. Chikarkova, T. Yaroshovets, etc. was involved in the orbit of reasoning.
The research objective. We aim to analyze the evolution of modern art's view of the sacred; to understand its religious premises and forms on the example of the art of Buddhist, Christian and Islamic orbits
The statement of basic material. The article analyzes the worldview and social contexts of a number of significant works of modern art (literature, painting, cinematography, theater art, architecture), which in one form or another cultivate sacred symbolism. The researcher also interprets the forms of cultivation of traditional meanings of world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Islam) in modern art.
Conclusions. The conducted research testifies to the intensification of the representation of the religious cluster in artistic pursuits. Although very often religious images are used beyond the traditional context, their artistic processing provides our mind and heart with a whole series of worldview “puzzles”, provides food for thought. They have valuable reflective material for understanding the axiosphere and the essence of man in the face of the universe.
Keywords: religion, axiosphere, sacrality, art, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, modern art.
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