On
June 5, 2019, an exhibition Summer Vernissage dedicated to the 25th anniversary
of the opening of the museum to the visitors (on June 21, 1994) was presented in
O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
The exposition of the exhibition includes graphic and decorative works
by the following well-known artists from the museum collection “Modern Ukrainian Fine
Art”: People’s Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Nadezhdin; Merited Artists of Ukraine
Anatolii Yaniev, Serhii Shapovalov, Anatolii Kravchenko, and Andrii Nadezhdin, Merited Art
Worker of Ukraine MykhailSvatula; Merited Worker of Culture of Ukraine Leonid Bondar;
members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Mariia Tserna, Fedir Lahno, Anatolii
Shapovalov, Yurii Honcharenko, Oleksandr Demydenko, Valerii Davydov, Anatolii Kimnatnyi,
Volodymyr Plitin, Serhii Novikov, Yurii Lutskevych, and Tetiana Sosulina; members of the
National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine Andrii Lipatov, Larysa Harbuzenko, and
Olha Kolomiiets; a member of the National Union of Designers of Ukraine Derhii Rybin; a
member of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine Anatolii Hubenko; painters Stepan
Nikolenko, Halyna Yarove-Vintenko, Larysa Yakovleva, and Viktor Orli (Hennadii Hrebniov);
and also artists-veterans, members of the Union of Artists of the USSR Mykola Bondarenko
and Volodymyr Fedorov.
The majority of the artists are the laureates of the Regional Awards in
Fine Art and Study of Art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin and in Architecture, Heraldry,
and Vexillology, and Decorative and Applied Art named after Yakiv Pauchenko.
The exhibition consists of more than 50 works created from the 1970s
and until today. The works brightly reflect not only the artistic preferences of each
artist but also the general traits of the modern Ukrainian painting development. Taking
advantage of the endless possibilities of color and lines consonance, artists discover the
beauty filled with the harmony of nature in the summertime, brightly reproducing a
special, unique coloristics of the Ukrainian sunny palette.
It is symbolic, that the first visitor of the exhibition was a guest
from Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun, who came to the museum together with his friends,
teachers from Comprehensive School No.4. The guest was impressed with the story of the
life and creative work of the painter Oleksandr Osmerkin and left his feedback in the
museum guest book. As a souvenir, Andrii Nadezhdin, the leading researcher, presented the
guest with museum booklets.
Also, pupils of the elementary school came to the exhibition, enjoying
the beginning of holidays and viewing marvelous works of visual art. The pupils also took
selfies by the exhibited works. |