Boychukism
Boychukism is a cultural and artistic phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian art of 1910–1930s, distinguished by its artistic monumental-synthetic style. The basis of Boychuk's concept of the development of new art was an appeal to the traditions of Byzantine and Italian monumental painting, as well as middle-age Rus' icon painting, as the primary source of the Ukrainian national form. The name comes from the name of the founder of the movement: Mykhailo Boychuk, a muralist and graphic artist.
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Boychukism
Коло Бойчука · Self-photographed · Public domain
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- Boychuckism
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- 1910
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- Ukraine
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Boychukism is a cultural and artistic phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian art of 1910–1930s, distinguished by its artistic monumental-synthetic style. The basis of Boychuk's concept of the development of new art was an appeal to the traditions of Byzantine and Italian monumental painting, as well as middle-age Rus' icon painting, as the primary source of the Ukrainian national form. The name comes from the name of the founder of the movement: Mykhailo Boychuk, a muralist and graphic artist.
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Overview
Boychuk, as well as several other artists, made Soviet propaganda and promoted communism. However, Boychuk was labelled as a "bourgeois nationalist" and he was executed. At the end of 1925, the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine (ARIU) was founded in Kyiv, uniting Boychukists.
«Урожай». Початок 1910-х. Папір гуаш. Національний музей у Львові імені Адрея Шептицького.
М.Бойчук (?) · Self-photographed
«Українка», початок 1910-х. Львівська національна галерея мистецтв імені Бориса Возницького
Коло Бойчука · Self-photographed
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• Name — Boychuckism • Majorfigures — Mykhailo Boychuk, Tymofiy Boychuk, Ivan Padalka, Vasily Sedlyar, Sofiia Nalepinska-Boychuk, Yaroslava Muzyka, Manuil Shechtman, Mariia Yunak • Yearsactive — 1910s–1930s • Country — Ukraine • Influences — Byzantine and Italian monumental painting; Rus' icon painting; Ukrainian folk art • Location — Kyiv • Influenced — Ukrainian avant-garde
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• Illustration — Shevchenko holiday, Mikhail Boychuk, 1920 • Illustration — M. Padalka. Sketch of an illustration for “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” 1928. • Illustration — Sedlyar, Vasily Teofanovich, “At the school of educational programs”, the limit of the 1920-1930s. • Illustration — Shekhtman, Manuil Iosifovich “Jewish pogrom”, 1926. • Illustration — L. Lozovsky. Illustration, “Instead of sonnets and octaves”, Tychina, Pavel Grigorievich, 1920 • Illustration — Nalepinskaya-Boychuk, Sofya Alexandrovna, “Girls with a book”, 1927
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