Mykhaylo Nikiforovich Chornyi ( uk, Михайло Никифорович Чорний; russian: Михаил Никифорович Чёрный; November 26, 1933) is a
Ukrainian
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Realist,
Neo-Primitivist
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) painter and graphic artist. Chornyi is described as "the founder of Ukrainian
Neo-Folk
Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s. Neofolk may either be solely acoustic or combine acoustic folk instrument ...
Style". A member of Ukrainian National
Artists' Union since 1968.
People's Artist of Ukraine
People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.).
Establ ...
(2003).
Education, career
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
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, which graduated with a
Master's Degree
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Mykhaylo Khmelko and
Victor Shatalin.
At the post-graduate school in
Soviet Academy of Arts
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he studied in
Sergey Grigoriev Sergey may refer to:
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History
Sergey is ...
's and
Mykhaylo Deregus's workshop.
He transformed the
Socialist realism
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artistic manner he was taught through a Ukrainian academic
romanticism
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and
historicism
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, rare at that time of Soviet censorship and pressure, to a new folk artistic style.
Awards
* I Prize at The All-Union
Arkhip Kuindzhi
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (; rus, Архи́п Ива́нович Куи́нджи ; ; 27 January 1841 – 24 July 1910) was a Ukrainian Landscape art, landscape Painting, painter active in the Russian Empire, of Pontic Greeks, Pontic Greek des ...
Contest(1973)
* I Prize at The Nikolai Trublaini Contest (1976)
* National Artist of Ukraine (
People's Artist of Ukraine
People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.).
Establ ...
)(2003)
Exhibitions
Mykhaylo Chornyi has more than 50 personal exhibitions of paintings and graphics all over former Soviet Union and throughout nowadays Ukraine.
Collections
His works are in possession of
Soviet Ministry of Culture
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,
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.
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External links
* http://vinspilka.narod.ru/mut/chor/chor.html
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Ukrainian painters
Ukrainian male painters
Ukrainian genre painters
Soviet artists
1933 births
Living people