TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL CRAFT INTO MODERN ARTISTIC BLACKSMITHING

The subject of the study is the author's special culturological approach to the development of modern domestic artistic blacksmithing, that is based on specific examples of the use of traditions and the involvement of innovative components in the development of blacksmithing. The article highlights the historical stages of development of blacksmithing as a craft of the past and its transformation into modern art. The purpose of the study is to try to determine the factors that directly influenced the overall formation of the state of modern Ukrainian blacksmithing. The methodology of the study is based on the principles of creative activity of blacksmiths, the study of scientific works of modern blacksmith theorists, art critics, culturologists and is aimed at comprehensive awareness of the specialized link of fine arts - artistic blacksmithing of Ukraine in the last third of the twentieth century to the present day and the factors that influenced the process of destruction and revival of ancient craft. Methods that were applied in the course of the study are comparative-historical, typological, systemic, analytical, source-critical. The author also used an interviewing method involving audio recording to create a database.