THE ROLE OF URBAN SCULPTURE IN SHAPING THE ARTISTIC IMAGE OF THE EMBANKMENT
The art of sculpture adorns the space around a person, makes you think about eternal values, introduces you to culture. Being in an urban environment, a person is primarily faced with architectural objects and their decorative design. Sculpture is used as one of the main means of such decoration. It can emphasize city coordinates, serve as a landmark or compositional dominant, highlight individual spaces between them, adjust their scale characteristics, and fix visual connections. Thus, monumental and decorative sculpture has an urban planning function. The study shows that it is possible to raise the question of how the territory of the embankment should be optimally organized by means of sculpture to create its integral image, the sculptural object and the nature of its impact on the viewer are considered, taking the fundamental factors of human attitude to the object of perception: cognition, emotional state, assessment of the variety of types of aesthetic preferences. Consequently, expressive (plot and thematic) lines are revealed, which in the future can become the substantive basis for the architectural and artistic decision of the embankment area as a whole and fragments of the environment that serve as an impetus for a figurative-plastic understanding of the “memory of the place”, which recorded the cultural chain of historical events. This in the future should help in discovering the “spirit of the place” and the “spirit of the times”. Cultural-style context of the place, or style “code” of the city.