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25.07.2008 – 07.09.2008

Heorghiy Melikhov

Painting
Curator: Liudmyla Kovalska
 
 
 

TO HONOR THE 100th BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

Heorghiy Melikhov (1908-1985)
Painting

25.07.–07.09.2008
Opening: 25.07.2008 (Friday) at 17.00

Curator: Liudmyla Kovalska


On the 24th of May, a well-known Ukrainian painter Heorhiy Melikhov would be 100 years old. 

For most of Ukrainians, his name is inseparable from his stately canvas Young Taras Shevchenko in the Studio of Karl Briulov (1947). This work, which is considered to be the best in Ukrainian Shevchenkiana, became the classics of Ukrainian national art.

Melikhov belonged to that generation of Ukrainian artists, whose creative path began in 1930’s, when the pressure of state power on art reached its greatest intensity, and the resistance of the artists was most dramatic.  The motifs, genres and painterly techniques, which were allowed within the framework of Socialist Realism, were strictly regulated. Vindicating their own freedom of expression, the artists had to compromise. However, the art of Melikhov proved that the artists can to a certain extent overcome the pressure of ideology and describe the events of the past, the life of his and his contemporaries sincerely.

Melikhov graduated from Kyiv Art Institute. His professors were such significant Ukrainian artists as Fedir Krychevs’kyi, Pavlo Volokydin, Kostyantyn Yeleva, Mykhaylo Sharonov, and Serhiy Hryhoryev. His graduation coincided with the beginning of the World War II. He took part in the war, which he documented in his drawings. Later he worked in historical, thematic, landscape, and portrait genres

Liudmyla Kovalska

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