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National Arts Museum of Ukraine
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| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE
ARTS 100 ANNIVERSARY |
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National
Museum of Fine Arts had a name of Municipal Museum of
Antiquities & Arts 100 years ago. Ukraine was known for its
beautiful ethnographical arts & crafts. The first director of
Museum historian, M. Bilyashivsky & his brothers-in-arms, art-critics
D. Scherbakivsky & P. Ernst created museum collection. Works
of T. Shevchenko, V. Borovikovsky, V. Tropinin, M. Pimonenko,
M, Vrubel, M. Ge, G. Narbut, O, Murashko, V. Krichevsky came
in the Museum. Gatherers deepened to the remote past: medieval
icon-painting, monumental portraiture of Cossacks age - military
upper crust, church hierarch-enlighteners.
Now the Museum's replenishment caries out in accord to the value
scale they left. "St. Georgy in existence" unique icon-relief
of XII century, Ukrainian rococo masterpiece "Great Martyr"
Icon ("Velikomuchenitsa") of world abstractionism founder, native
of Ukraine K. Malevich, world-wide known Ukrainian from USA
Y. Gnizdovsky's drawing widened the collection.
There are several tens of thousands of exhibits in the Museum
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Mykola Byrache "Golden Autumn" 1910
Icon "Miracle of St. George" |
"Cossack-bandurist"
the end of the XVII century
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Icon "Day of Judgement" ²² half of
the ÕVII century
Icon "De-Jesus" 1760
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collected works have caused a sensation
at the international expositions more than once. "St. Georgy
in existence" excited enormous interest at the world's fair
"Byzantium glory" at the New York Metropolitan Museum in 1997.
There are no Orthodox polychromatic relief works of the same
antiquity in the whole world. It combines Byzantium pictorial
traditions with the sculptural technique of Romanic West. Every
world style found peculiar, creative & original repercussion
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Petro Kholodny
"Fair-tale about a girl and peahen" 1916
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Remarkable page
of European culture is so-called Cossacks or Mazepa's baroque.
Hetmans & colonels have built huge churches & decorated it with
fretted colorful icons. Some times masterpieces appeared at
the rural deanery's temples. Icon strikes by the diversity of
stylistic means & creative techniques. Rococo style being very
close to the Ukrainian lyrical mentality had influence even
on official monumental portrait genre.
Zaporizhya warrior V. Gamaliya's was a man of athletic built
(Turks called his ancestor "gamal" - strapping one). Gracious
lines speckled his figure, face & arms & create ornamental pattern
on the Cossack's clothing. In contrast to the style there were
grotesque-historical pictures named "Cossack Mamay" appearing
in Ukraine. Ò. Shevchenko seems to outstrip his own times, looking
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expressionism &
surrealism (the matter concerns the still life with handless
clock). European art development was marked by impressionism
at the end of XIX century. Ukrainian art-realists have not avoided
this trend. M. Pimonenko's works are noticeable with color pallet
& air clarity. O. Bogomazov called "Futuristic Sharden", "Ukrainian
Kleye" V. Palmov are worldwide recognized. Museum collection
of the following decades till 1990s inclusive embraces the whole
variety of trends & tendencies from the semi-official social
realism to the experimental post-modernism (paintings of O.
Shovkunenko, Ò. Yablonska, Y. Volobuev, etc.)
National Museum's of Fine Arts constantly gains its authority.
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