Tomorrow, February 5, at the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kiev) will be a presentation album-monograph "Nikolai Andreevich Sheluto. Honored Artist of Ukraine (1906-1984) "

Tomorrow, February 5, at the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kiev) a presentation of the album-book "Nikolai Andreevich Shelyuto. Honored Artist of Ukraine (1906-1984 )».

Album-monograph - a tribute to work of the famous Ukrainian landscape painter Nicholas A. Shelyuto . His life and destiny have been closely associated with Odessa, and Art, long and easy touch with the vanguard of the 1920's, became a unique example of continuity of ideas southern Russian school of painting, which laid the foundations of the traditions of plein air in Odessa and the Ukrainian fine in general practice. "South Russian" also prompted the artist and to seek cooperation with the European Landscape Painting School XIX - XX centuries. He worked not only in Odessa, but in Kiev, the Crimea, but in the history of Odessa painting landscapes NA Shelyuto are important link between the Society of South Russian artists with modernity, where the realistic form, despite the diversity of style, continue to exist and actively develop.

NA Shelyuto, artist pores of socialist realism, choosing realistic painting, managed to stay out ideological attitudes of his time. He sought perfection in impressionistic harmony of color and tone, putting his main creative challenge study and a connection in their works of nature and depth of human feelings and emotions.

Perhaps it was the stubborn rejection of the artist socialist constraints of realism, unfortunately, as often happens in life NA Shelyuto left his artistic achievements outside the scientific understanding, and even awarded him the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine (1962) did not stimulate any noticeable art studies of interest to the artist.

first major publication on NA Shelyuto - album-monograph T. Basanets - covers the period of sixty years of his life and work. The artistic heritage of the artist allows the author of the monograph is not only an analysis of his paintings, to trace the path of forming attitudes and artistic ideas, but also put emphasis on every period of creation, with its features and laws. For the first time disclosed obscure artist's work 1920 - an important formative period of his creative principles, priorities and taste. Analyzing the painting of the 1930's, the author emphasizes the influence of the album on her barbizontsev and the Impressionists (with the artist's life this apparent continuity or not noticed , or carefully suppressed ). The book pays tribute to the research landscape art of the artist 1950-70-ies, which in its time and was praised, however, severely criticized for its lack of "socially important traits" and "the merits of the painting." Paradoxically, the background for this criticism was that while dozens of the best paintings NA Shelyuto acquired in the most famous museums in Ukraine.

Text of the album (more than 100 pages) is based on archival documents, newspaper and magazine publishing different years, correspondence NA Shelyuto with family, students and friends. Of particular interest are the recollections of family members of the artist, his colleagues. Several pages of publications devoted to his wife NA Shelyuto Irina Ivanovna Remizov, artist, loyal friend and creative collaborator. The book contains over 200 reproductions of works of NA Shelyuto.

scientific apparatus edition includes the most comprehensive to date catalog of master (1789 items) with the designation of museums, which house the work, bibliographic details of all publications on the life and work of NA Shelyuto, as well as a list of names of artists mentioned in the album-book, with brief biographical information about them.

presentation of the album-book will tomorrow, February 5, 2010, at 18.00 in the National Art Museum of Ukraine (st. Grushevskiy 6, Kiev).

Material prepared Linda Stoyanova (Odessa), especially for AI