Abstract
This article analyzes the methodological basis of the study of folk icons. To that end in view, the legality of folk icon through the prism of the methodological principles of formalism was analyzed and emphasized subordinated nature of folk icon. Emphasis is given to philosophical grounds of antianatomism of folk art icon, which appears the result of deep-rooted in the collective consciousness mythological representations of the Ukrainian people. Along with the specified highlights that despite the apparent brilliance and seeming of folk icons, they are connected by the constantly present in each of them a mythological structure, which determines not only the originality of folk icon, but the Ukrainian culture in general.
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