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Petrivka Painting
Showing until February 11, 2020
Petrikivka painting (or simply "Petrykivka") is a traditional Ukrainian decorative painting style, originating from the village of Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk oblast of Ukraine, where it was traditionally used to decorate house walls and everyday household items. The earliest known examples of this style date from the 17th century, but it continues to thrive and develop as a modern art form.
The distinctive features of this folk art style are its flower patterns, distinctive brush techniques, and its traditionally white background (contemporary painters, however, often work on black, green, red or blue backgrounds).
In 2012, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine recognized Petrykivka painting as a part of intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine, and it was included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013.[1] Petrykivka painting has become a "brand" in Ukrainian popular culture, and a "Petrykivka" trademark belonging to the artisans of Petrykivka village has been created.
Ukrainian Pottery
Showing until February 11, 2020
Pottery is a craft of making different household goods out of clay. In Ukraine pottery was highly developed from the ancient times, and ceramics was widely used by Ukrainians up until industrialization in XX century.
Dmitry Levitsky (1735-1822)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Dmitry Levitsky is a famous Ukrainian portraitist, he is known as a master of ceremonial portrait who could find an expressive posture, combine color intensity with tone color abundance. Levitsky became famous after the exhibition of 6 of his portraits in the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. For the portrait of the Academy Director Levitsky was appointed the Professor of the portrait painting class at the Academy.
The most famous works of the portrait painter are in a series of portraits of Smolny Institute for Young Ladies pupils. Levitsky depicted the girls performing plays, music, dances.
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Shevchenko is one of the most famous Ukrainians known predominantly for his literary talent. But Shevchenko also was a great painter and illustrator. He was an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (now Russian Academy of Arts in Saint-Petersburg), where he obtained a prize for landscape painting and also for oil painting later.
His paintings reflect the everyday life of Ukrainians in the XIX century, Ukrainian culture and nature. One of his albums is called “Picturesque Ukraine”. Shevchenko made a great contribution to genre art development and became Ukrainian genre art founder. Taras Shevchenko was also a great portrait painter, one of the most famous and popular portraitists of the time and a great contributor to Ukrainian portrait art.
Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Ilya Repin is a Ukrainian painter born in Chuguev (Kharkiv Oblast) which was a part of the Russian Empire then. He is known as an outstanding realist painter, he played a major role in bringing Russian art into European culture. His major works are “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks”, “Barge Haulers on the Volga”, “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan”.
During his career of a painter, Repin persistently searched for new techniques to give his works more depth and fullness. He began his career by painting icons, he also painted Russian elite portraits, but his favorite subjects were common people. He often based is works on dramatic conflicts drawn from history or contemporary life.
techniques to give his works more depth and fullness. He began his career by painting icons, he also painted Russian elite portraits, but his favorite subjects were common people. He often based is works on dramatic conflicts drawn from history or contemporary life.
Alexander Murashko (1875-1919)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Alexander Murashko is a Ukrainian painter, educator, public man. His talent was formed under the influence of another Ukrainian painter – Ilya Repin, whose student in the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg he was.
First works of the painter were in the style of realism, but later he began to paint in refined impressionism style that he was taught during his visits to Europe. His works, in turn, influenced later Ukrainian artists of the Social Realist period.
Alexander Murashko taught art at the Kiev Art School and at his own studio that he opened shortly before the death.
Alexander (Olexandr) Bogomazov (1880-1930)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Alexander Bogomazov was a famous Ukrainian painter, representative anв theoretician of Russian Avant-guard. He is known also known as Ukrainian Picasso. During his artistic life, the painter mastered different styles, among the most-known, are Cubo-Futurism and Spectralism.
Bogomazov was not only a painter but also a writer. He wrote a treatise “The Art of Painting and the Elements” in which he analyzed the interaction between elements of the painting and a painter, a painter and a spectator. By this treatise, he set the theoretical foundation of modern art. The most famous works by Alexander Bogomazov are “Composition N2”, “Portrait of the daughter”, “Tram”.
Ivan Marchuk (1936)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Ivan Marchuk is a contemporary Ukrainian painter known not only in Ukraine but also in Canada, Australia, and the United States – countries, where he lived and worked. In 2007 the painter’s name was added to the list of “Top 100 living geniuses” made by the Britain newspaper “Daily Telegraph”. Ivan Marchuk created more than 4000 paintings and arranged about 100 solo exhibitions.
The artist created his own technique known as “pliontanism” – a technique that involves the “dabbing-on” of paint. Marchuk divides his professional life into 10 periods, the paintings of each period differ in style and manner. His works represent animal totems such as the crow and the horse, broken items such as musical instruments and eggshells, field flowers, abandoned cottages, maidens.
Alexander Anufriev (1940)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Alexander Anufriev is a Soviet Ukrainian painter who had to emigrate to the USA in 1980 due to his conflicts with authorities. He was one of the Odessa School of Unofficial Art founders, his works were displayed in many unofficial exhibitions in the Soviet Union and abroad.
The works of Alexander Anufriev are strongly influenced by the art of the Renaissance. In his paintings, he tries to get beyond what exists today and to express what is eternal and also he tries to make invisible visible.
Katya Gridneva (1965)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Katya Gridneva was born in Ukraine, she got artist education at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. Nowadays she lives and works in London with her husband who is also a painter.
Gridneva creates paintings with oil, charcoal, pastel. The main subjects of her work are women, often ballet dancers. Her works are displayed in art galleries of France, Germany, and the USA and she is known as a talented portraitist all over the world.
Oleg Shuplyak (1967)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Oleg Shupliak is a contemporary painter from Western Ukraine. He creates paintings in the current optical illusion and is often called “a contemporary Salvador Dali”. Shupliak creates two pictures in one painting. The painter is known for his talent for placing the second image behind main objects and characters of the first image. A second image is a portrait of a famous personality – John Lennon, Charles Darwin, and many others.
Being a painter, Oleg Shupliak chose to be the architect by profession. He uses the technical precision of an architect to create optical illusions. Shuplyak became one of the most famous illusionists of our time thanks to his unique approach in painting.
Irene Sheri (1968)
Showing until February 11, 2020
Irene Sheri is a contemporary Ukrainian painter known all over the world. The painting was her passion from the first years of her life. She studied at Art School, Art College in Ukraine and at the age of 22 she entered one of the most prestigious art schools in the world — the St. Petersburg Academy of Art.
The main subject of her works is a woman beauty. Irene Sheri works in abstract and impressionist style. Her oil paintings are in many private collections and are also represented in galleries of Russia, Italy, Belgium, France.
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