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Impressionism and Ukraine

Painting of the late 19th – beginning of the 20th century

National Art Museum of Ukraine to its 110th anniversary presents a project “Impressionism and Ukraine”, for which were chosen 150 works of Ukrainian painting of the late 19th – beginning of the 20th century from the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Vinnytsya Regional Art Museum, Zaporizhzhya Regional art Museum, Kyiv Museum of Russian Art, Lviv Art Gallery, National Art Museum im. Andrey Sheptytsky, Odesa Art Museum, Sumy Regional Art Museum im. N.Onatsky, Kharkiv Art Museum, Kherson Regional Art Museum, and Kyiv private collections.

In Ukraine, Impressionism did not develop into an independent school. Classical French Impressionism, notwithstanding the individual peculiarity of each of its representatives, bore traces of a common art style, i.e. those general features that defined the range of its painterly characteristics. In Ukraine, we can only speak of stylistic peculiarities of Impressionism in the work of individual artists.   Impressionist innovations were introduced to Ukrainian painting in the 1890s –  first half of the 1910s. By that time, all the varieties of Postimpressionism had long been dominant in Europe, and its cultural space had been mostly taken by the new style – Jugendstil. In Ukraine, in the work of one artist those new influences often intersected with Impressionistic art forms. Besides, folk imagery and personal specificity of the painterly language contributed to the formation of the individual styles of such artists as Kyriak Kostandi, Petro Nilus, Petro Levchenko, Mykhaylo Tkachenko, Mykola Berkos, Oleksandr Murashko, Abram Manevych, Mykola Burachek, Ivan Trush, Oleksa Novakivs’kyi, Olena Kulchytska. These artists formed Ukrainian model of Impressionism.

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