| Thanks to Yukhym Mykhailiv, famous Ukrainian Symbolist painter and poet,graphic artist, and art scholar. Mykhailiv, Yukhym [Михайлів, Юхим; Myxajliv, Jukhym], b 27 October 1885 in Oleshky (now Tsiurupynsk) near Kherson,Ukraine,then Tavriia gubernia, d 15 July 1935 in Kotlas, Arkhangelsk oblast, RSFSR. He studied in Moscow at the Stroganov Applied Arts School (1902--6) and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1906--10). In the 1910s he began contributing poetry to Ukrainian journals and designing book and magazine covers and illustrations. From 1917 he lived in Kyiv, where he was active in the Ukrainian Scientific Society, directed an arts and crafts school (from 1923), and headed the All-Ukrainian Committee for the Preservation of Monuments of Antiquity and Art, the Leontovych Music Society (1921--4), and the Kyiv branch of the Association of Artists of Red Ukraine. From 1920 he taught art at the Kyiv Institute of People's Education. He contributed articles on Ukrainian art and artists to the journal Mystetstvo, Zhyttia i revoliutsiia, and Bibliolohichni visti and wrote books on weaving (1919) and earthenware ceramics (1921) in Ukraine and on the artists Mykhailo Zhuk (1930) and Hryhorii Diadchenko (1931). Mykhailiv painted or drew over 300 works. Among them there are three prominent themes: the Ukrainian national revival (Music of the Stars [1919], the triptych Moonlight Sonata [1925]), the Ukrainian past (To the Goddess Lada [1915], the triptych ... |
