Abstract
The union in the time space of Ukrainian professional painting from the 1930s to the 1960s has a fairly conventional definition, because each of the four mentioned decades had fundamentally different development vectors. The forcible introduction of the method of socialist realism and the subordination of the Marxist-Leninist foundation to it in Ukrainian artistic culture in general and in painting in particular was accompanied not only by the destruction and elimination of other artistic trends, but also by Stalin's personal negative attitude towards Ukraine and everything Ukrainian. Supported by the Communist ruling party and artistic criticism of the Russian and the Russian, socialist realism quickly overcame any manifestation of disagreement, forbidding the coverage of the shady sides of life [1].This article explores the imaginary hero and the fictional or modified events that were sung by painters in the military and post-war years with the aim of maintaining the myth of the Soviet superpower. The interest of today›s art critics by the painting of the turn of the 1940s is quite natural, since it is this period that can be considered the starting point of the totalitarian national art of the second phase. Ukrainian Soviet painting as a percentage of sculpture, graphics, and applied art had preferences, since the overwhelming number of published works remained picturesque, and therefore the study of processes formed academic painting quite logically, as well as close attention to the odiousness of the phenomena that accompanied and shaped the artistic life of the country and an artistic product (in this case painting). The author's position remains unchanged. For a correct understanding of the visual arts of subsequent periods, it is necessary to investigate the period of military and post-war art of the painterly workshop, which is difficult in terms of perception. Time does not come back, but it gives an opportunity today, for a broader and deeper reading and understanding of those artistic processes, which until quite recently could not be mentioned.