Image of the Family and People in the Artwork of Roman Petruck

Heroes of portraits of Roman Petruk are open-world creative people – his teachers, parents, of the same age – young artists, actors in whose faces the reality of the Spirit is manifested, the movement of life. The article analyzes Petruk's portraits of his teacher, an outstanding Ukrainian artist and teacher, Nikolai Andreevich Storozhenko and teachers of NAOMA. The ritual value of a portrait is shown, which provides the connection of the worlds - temporary and eternal. The symbolic content of portraits, the value of the conditional background in character characteristics is studied. The relationship between content and form, features of composition, symbols and stylistics of portrait images of the Ukrainian artist in the context of world art is revealed. Methods of iconography and iconography are used. The main thing in the school of Storozhenko: the means of art combine in man the lost integrity of the body, soul and spirit. In the compositions of Petruk, secular and cult art was consonant. Following the teacher, Roman communicates the time: man and family, family and people, people and humanity. In Storozhenko’s portraits Petruk asserts the highest hierarchy of the artist-creator. The connection with portraits of avant-garde masters is shown. The relationship between the portrait and the icon in the portraits of Petruk is studied. The icon confirms the dominant spirit of peace, and emotionality is important in a psychological portrait. The work of the artist combines the legacy of the art of Ancient Rus and Byzantium, the European and Ukrainian Baroque, romanticism, and academicism with modern trends. Neosynthesticism – in such a way named his method Petruk. The gallery of portrait images created by Roman Petruk (more than 100 works of painting and graphics) is a testimony to the spiritual battle of the artist for the dominant of spirit over matter. The general scientific significance of the article is the introduction of a modern Ukrainian portrait into the context of world art.