Urban Landscape in the Painting Practices of Ivano-Frankivsk Region Artists, 1960s – 1980s: Artistic, Stylistic and Image Transformations

The purpose of the study is to identify trends in the urban landscape transformations in the painting practices of Ivano-Frankivsk region artists of the 1960s to 1980s and to reveal their artistic and stylistic priorities in terms of both innovative techniques and traditional heritage. Research methodology. The process of the urban landscape and its artistic features formation is considered based on reconstructive and historical-attributive methods, as well as iconographic method, formalstylistic method of art analysis, which contribute to the study of urban landscape figurative transformation in its historical and cultural context. The scientific novelty of the study is to identify the specificity of the artistic representation of the urban landscape in the works of Ivano-Frankivsk region artists of the 1960s to 1980s following its historical and cultural realities. Conclusions. The artistic and stylistic priorities of pictorial searches in the urban landscape genre are revealed in chronological order. We have systematised their typical characteristics according to the historical and artistic stages of the urban landscape genre transformation in the art of Ivano-Frankivsk region of the 1960s to 1980s in the context of those art processes. The representation of the city image in the painting practices of Ivano-Frankivsk region artists of the 1960s to 1980s is understood from the point of their stylistic diversity and the author’s peculiarities of figurative language. The subjects of urban themes have received different variants following artistic and stylistic priorities: from realistic trends to formal searches for the landscape, which developed during the 1960s and 1980s. We have profiled the painters who defined the primary vectors for the urban landscape development of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the 1960s to 1980s and characterised their work through the regional artistic tradition and innovation features