Mykhaylo Chornyi
Mykhaylo Nikiforovich Chornyi (November 26, 1933 – September 24, 2020) was a Ukrainian Realist, Neo-Primitivist) painter and graphic artist. Chornyi is described as "the founder of Ukrainian Neo-Folk Style". He was a member of Ukrainian National Artists' Union from 1968, and was awarded the People's Artist of Ukraine (2003).
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- Name
- Chornyi, Mykhaylo
- Born
- 26 November 1933
- Birthplace
- Vinnytsia Oblast) in Ukraine, USSR
- Died
- 24 September 2020
- Known for
- Ukrainian painter, graphic artist
- Movement
- realism, Neo-Primitivist
- Awards
- National Artist of Ukraine (People's Artist of Ukraine)(2003)
- Nationality
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic · Ukraine · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- list of Ukrainian painters
- Movements
- realism
- Education
- Hrekov Odesa Art school
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Mykhaylo Nikiforovich Chornyi (November 26, 1933 – September 24, 2020) was a Ukrainian Realist, Neo-Primitivist) painter and graphic artist. Chornyi is described as "the founder of Ukrainian Neo-Folk Style". He was a member of Ukrainian National Artists' Union from 1968, and was awarded the People's Artist of Ukraine (2003).
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Biography
Biography
Mykhaylo Chornyi studied at Hrekov Odesa Art school. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is list of Ukrainian painters. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Distinctions recorded are People's Painter of Ukraine.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Chornyi, Mykhaylo • Born — 26 November 1933 • Birthplace — Vinnytsia Oblast) in Ukraine, USSR • Died — 24 September 2020 • Known for — Ukrainian painter, graphic artist • Movement — realism, Neo-Primitivist • Awards — National Artist of Ukraine (People's Artist of Ukraine)(2003)
Background
Background
Mykhaylo Chornyi studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year he entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin. At the post-graduate school in Soviet Academy of Arts he studied in Sergey Grigoriev's and Mykhaylo Deregus's workshop. • Illustration — Widdows commemorating their husbands at the battle field. 1985 - oil, canvas. - 150x200 cm. He transformed the Socialist realism artistic manner he was taught through a Ukrainian academic romanticism and historicism, rare at that time of Soviet censorship and pressure, to a new folk artistic style. Chornyi died on September 24, 2020, at the age of 86.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Mykhaylo Chornyi has more than 50 personal exhibitions of paintings and graphics all over former Soviet Union and throughout nowadays Ukraine.
Identity
Identity
Mykhaylo Chornyi is recorded as a citizen of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre genre painting.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1933
Mykhaylo Chornyi was born on 26 November 1933.
2020
Mykhaylo Chornyi died on 24 September 2020.
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Mala Zhmerynka.
Birth place
Vinnytsia.
Death place
Collections
Collections
His works are in possession of Soviet Ministry of Culture, Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, leading Ukrainian State museums, in private collections of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, USA, as well as Ukraine. Mykhaylo Chornyi is noted in "The Artists of The World": A Bio-bibliographical Index A to Z. (Munich: K. G. Saur (publisher)), 1996. • Illustration — A Cossack Farewell. 2011, - oil, canvas. - 60х80 cm.
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Awards
• I Prize at The All-Union Arkhip Kuindzhi Contest (1973) • I Prize at The Nikolai Trublaini Contest (1976) • National Artist of Ukraine (People's Artist of Ukraine) (2003)
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