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Vasyl Markelovych Shevchenko (April 14, 1920, Kyiv, Ukraine – December 31, 2003, Kyiv, Ukraine) - Ukrainian artist and teacher.
Vasyl Shevchenko was born on April 14, 1920 in Kyiv, Ukraine. On the paternal side he was a descendant of S.M.Fuzik – industrialist and landowner, Honorary Citizen of Kyiv. On the maternal line he came from the peasants; descendant of the Shevchenko’s family from the village of Danylivka in the Kyiv region.
He has been studying for different years with famous artists–teachers, namely K.D. Trokhymenko, O.I. Fomin, O.O. Shovkunenko, K.M. Eleva, and T.N. Yablonska.
The artist began his creative path in the workshops of the Kyiv Art Fund. In 1964 he moved to pedagogical work as a drawing and painting teacher at the Faculty of Architecture of the Kyiv State Engineering and Construction Institute, where he has been working till 1993. Simultaneously he headed the Studio of Fine Arts at Culture House “Slavutych”.
During the years of his activity, Vasyl Shevchenko educated many famous masters of painting, including I.T. Klets, M.I. Yatsyshyn, and S.M. Skorokhodov.
Despite artistic achievements, as a Ukrainian history singer, the people’s life and the picturesque nature of Ukraine, the creative activity during his lifetime did not bring the artist either fame or wealth. On December 31, 2003, he died surrounded by relatives, being ill and bedridden, and buried in Kyiv`s Northern Cemetery.
Still life, portrait, and landscape are three directions in Shevchenko's activity.
Flowers predominate in still life. A flower for the artist is a symbol of beauty and constant passion. He loves flowers and painted them in various recourses: in beds, in bushes, as well as in bouquets ("Lilic with tulips. 1970"). While teaching, he created many staging still lifes with vegetables and fruits, and with various cutlery, most of them he has painted with students.
Vasyl Shevchenko's portrait painting differs from the works of his contemporaries. His models are ordinary people who met him on the way of life, with great life-affirming power. In his best artworks, the artist creates images with a deep inner world and tries to convey it to a viewer (“Portrait of an Old Man. 1977”). His female images are full of deep lyricism. Boys and girls with full of joy eyes and a surprising look into the future, painted with great love, are taken a special place in the creator's portrait genre.
The landscape genre occupies a prominent place in Vasyl Shevchenko's works. It is here that his boundless love for the native land, Ukraine, and especially for the Ukrainian countryside, with its roofed huts and simple rural life, is revealed. In contrast to his contemporaries, who loudly praised socialist construction's victories and a happy future, V Shevchenko turned to the deep history and sacred monuments, painted old Ukraine and its architecture ("Kamianets-Podilskyi fortress. 1967"). And the artist did this with the inspiration and dedication, imitating and developing his predecessors' traditions, such as S.I. Vasylkivsky, P.A. Levchenko, V.D. Orlovsky, and M.K. Pymonenko (e.g., “Rural landscape. 1969”). Permanently working in the open space, he was in complete harmony with nature, which remains for the artist the cradle of human existence and equally picturesque at any period of a year. During his creative activity, the artist did not miss the Kyiv city theme as well.
Having reached a high level of skill, the artist repeatedly changed his technique: his early works were painstakingly written, while the later ones were written in a more general, temperamental, as well as in a broad-brush manner. One cannot fail to overlook a specific influence of Impressionism in some artworks. The artist's palette plays with various colors: from colorful, brightly warm tones when depicting flowers and spring landscapes to sad and cool ones when depicting landscapes of overcast autumn or frosty winter.
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2020, Kyiv. Gallery Artist. A personal exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth.
1 http://mytets.com/2020/09/13/vasyl-shevchenko/
1.Vasyl Shevchenko. Life and work. [Album/compiled by M. Shevchenko/]. Kyiv. “Kiev. New Print”. 2019. 196 p. ISBN 978-617-635-124-5 (in Ukraine)
2. M.Shevchenko. With love to Ukraine. Ukrainian Literary Newspaper. Part I. № 7 [273], 2020, P. 6; Part II. № 18 [284], 2020, p. 20.
3. Artist Vasyl Shevchenko. To the 100th anniversary of his birth. Fine Arts. № 2, 2020, P. 125.
[1] M.Shevchenko. With love to Ukraine. Ukrainian Literary Newspaper. Part I. № 7 [273], 2020, P. 6
[2] M.Shevchenko. With love to Ukraine. Ukrainian Literary Newspaper. Part II. № 18 [284], 2020, p. 20.
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