Image and Form in Liubomyr Yaremchuk’s Sculpture: Between Monumental and Intimate Plastic Art

The article presents the distinctive features of figurative thinking and principles of form creation in the work of Ukrainian sculptor Liubomyr Yaremchuk – one of the leading representatives of the Lviv school of sculpture in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The focus is on the dialectics between monumental and chamber (easel) tendencies in his oeuvre, the exploration of plastic expressiveness, metaphorical form, and the author’s interpretation of the national heroic narrative. The aim of the study is to identify the ideological and aesthetic dominants of Yaremchuk’s artistic practice through the analysis of the compositional structure of his works, the symbolism of imagery, the logic of form formation, and the interaction of sculpture with the sociocultural space.

A wide range of Yaremchuk’s sculptural works is analyzed – from allegorical female figures and chamber compositions to portraits of prominent Ukrainian historical figures executed in public space. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of form-making and compositional decisions that reveal internal expressiveness, rhythm, and psychological depth of the image. Yaremchuk’s sculptural language is distinguished by its laconicism, metaphorical richness, and the ability to combine historical representativeness with delicate humanism – features inherent to both his monumental and chamber sculpture.

The study emphasizes not only the external contours of sculptural form but also its symbolic content and capacity to convey state, mood, emotional and existential experience. The methodological framework of the article combines formal and structural-semantic analysis, a historical-cultural approach, and comparative interpretation within the national artistic context. The author attempts to interpret image and form as interrelated components of an individual worldview embodied in sculptural matter. It is concluded that Yaremchuk’s artistic legacy demonstrates a unique ability to organically integrate personal, ethnocultural, and universal dimensions within the framework of both easel and monumental sculpture.