Iukhymyk I. Aesthetic and Art Critical Analysis of Artistic Creativity Mimetic Method: the Classic Art Historical Dynamics

The dissertation is touching on the question of mimesis aesthetic and art critical analysis as the art root principle, namely, on analysis of mimetic creation method of the work of art imaginative specific character. The analysis is made using the large context of the art historical dynamics preceding and properly the Renaissance period. Study of numerous works of art is associated with analysis of theoretical aesthetic, philosophy and art critical legacy of corresponding periods in the context of artistic creativity mimesis. Mimesis is considered as invariant of the common human copying capacity which, playing an important part in the human life activity socio-cultural processes, at the same time provides the necessary basis for their following creative evolution.