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article about dynasty Krisachenko.
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School Murashko and one room in a communal apartment for eleven
Slightly more than half a year Paul Krisachenko be 60. Pleasant and very modest man. Pull out of Mr. Paul a few words about yourself is very difficult. Instead, he vykurivaya cigarette after another, willingly talks about his famous relatives, from whom inherited the artistic talent.
Grandfather of the artist, Peter Krisachenko from childhood showed the ability to draw. Successfully passing the test in a children's art studio, he was enrolled immediately in full-scale class - the level of complexity is the last class meets art school or a first course art institute.
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In Ukraine in early 1920 there have their own unique art school. In the capital employed Petritsky, Archipenko, here come the world-famous Kazimir Malevich. Peter Krisachenku incredibly lucky: his mentor was the famous Ukrainian artist, one of a galaxy of artists "who was shot revival" Alexander Murashko, a student of Ilya Repin.
Traditional art school Murashko Peter Krisachenko handed his son Anatoli, which became not only an artist but a philosopher, a writer. His paintings are represented in 15 museums in Ukraine. About 500 works purchased overseas collectors artistic talent. But we can not say that Anatoly Petrovich was very popular at home. The artist recalled that "barely made a solo exhibition Podol, but someone always stripped posters».
What is the reason for this attitude? As Paul tells Krisachenko, although in those days, artists and appreciated, his father prevented the "dark past". «During the Second World War, my father, mother, my brothers, Nicholas and Alexandra, the Germans sent Ostarbeiter in Germany, - says Pavel Anatoliyovich. - Alexander died there from starvation ... After the war the Soviet authorities sent to Siberia, who "treason" and worked on the invaders. Father, together with other such "traitors" was seized, put in a boxcar and sent to Siberian prison camps. But he managed to escape. "
"I can imagine how your country should be proud of you!»
Returning to Kiev, Anatoly went to the leadership of Art Institute, the Kiev Society of Artists (the predecessor of the Union of artists) to help renew the rights to return the documents. Though not as strange, it succeeded. "It helped that back in the pre-war times, first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine Postishev wrote letters to Moscow, where he encouraged the talented young artist Anatoly Krisachenko and offered to support it - explains Paul Anatoliyovich. - This letter and saved the life of the artist. But not withdrawn hallmarks "unreliable." That is why, despite the request of the outstanding sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze father refused entry into the Union of Artists. That is why the KGB was trying to suppress his exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. But it is not only not intimidated by Anatoly Krisachenko, but also inspired to write the famous painting "The hijacking in Germany." Today, this fabric can be seen in the Sumy Museum ».
But in the United States took the whole six-man exhibitions Anatolia Krisachenko - New York, Chicago, Seattle, Hollywood. As the organizer of one of them, academician Bongard, "robots struck artists and critics, even they had different aesthetic opinions. The famous actor, one of the most influential people in America, Bob Hope, enthusiastically said: "I can imagine how your country should be proud of you!"
Unfortunately, reviews of the works of famous Ukrainian compatriot we do not know. At a time when America was enthusiastic to discover creativity Krisachenko, the artist himself and his family did not even have shelter. With great difficulty he managed to get rooms in a communal apartment. There he worked. They took the foreign students who came to learn to master. There have written books on philosophy. They passed sons Nicholas and Paul, their knowledge and experience.
"We lived on the street Zhilyanskaya - eleven in the same room. Two grandmothers, grandmother's brother and his wife, five of us in the family and Grandma's niece from Rovno - shares memories of Paul Anatoliyovich. - My father did not have a separate studio, so he worked there. All of us - me, an older brother Nicholas, mother - posed to him. Mom, Nina Ivanova, was also an artist, but also unusual: the embroidery on silk threads. Technique, which she enjoyed, is the author and has no analogues in world art. Therefore understandable that in such a creative atmosphere that my brother could not choose another path, but to become artists ... "
Anatoly Krisachenko very fond of small chamber works ..