Boychuk Michael L.
Boychuk Michael L. (30.10.1882, pp. Romanovka near Ternopol, - 1939), Soviet painter monumental. He studied in Cracow (1899-1905), Munich and Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, was in Italy. He worked in Paris (1908-11), then in Lviv, and in 1917 in Kiev. Oversaw the creation of frescoes (not preserved) in Lutsk barracks in Kiev (1919), in a sanatorium at Hadzhibeevskom estuary in Odessa (1928). In an effort to express the pathos of a new life in a monumental epic forms, B. turned to the experience of Giotto, the ancient Ukrainian icon painting, the Ukrainian folk art. However, the stylized images in the works of B. and his school ( "boychukisty") often do not meet the challenges of opening a new, Soviet themes. In the paintings Chervonozavodskyi theater in Kharkiv (1933-35) BA and his disciples broke the features of conventional and archaism forms characteristic of their early work. Since 1925, B. was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine. He was professor of Ukrainian Academy of Arts (1917-22) and the Kiev Art Institute (1924-36).
Lit.: Ictoriya Ukra © nskogo мистецтва, v. 5, Ci © in, 1967, pp. 17-19, 43-44, 110-120, 286-290 (available bibl.).
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• Boychuk Michael L. - (1882-1939) - Ukrainian painter. In search of a new monumental style, acute expression turned to the traditions of early Renaissance art, Ukrainian icon painting, resorted to stylization and archaism images ... (Collegiate Dictionary)
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