Живописные батальные произведения Андрея Холоменюка – знаменательное явление в культуре и искусстве Украины, Литвы и Польши
Picturesque battle works of Andrei Holomenyuka – remarkable phenomenon in the culture and art of Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the work is to analyse the works of Andrei Holomenyuk, who is a talented modern artist, Honored Artist of Ukraine. He has revived the battle genre in the Ukrainian art by creating a gallery of battle paintings on the themes of Ukrainian heroic stories: «Battle of Blue Waters», «Konotop Battle», «Khotyn war 1621» etc. Methodology. In the research, the author uses the analytical, historical, logical, systematic and art critical methods to the creative biography of the talented battle-painter and to understand the specifics of the artist’s painting as well as the stages of his creative development. Scientific novelty. The author is the first who analyses the Holomenyuk’s creativity in the context of the modern cultural and artistic space. Conclusions. Holomenyuk’s works, especially concerned the military and historical subjects, open the heroic feat of the Ukrainian Cossacks, Polish and Lithuanian soldiers who defended freedom and independence of their countries. His bright expressive talent expositions show heroic pages in the history of Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland in the XIV-XVII centuries. The original manner and various genres of the artist give the opportunity to artistic study of events and images of the Past, and to underline the artist’s creavity as a highly artistic phenomenon in the modern Ukrainian culture

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