Biography of Pimonenko

View all the paintings of the artist Pimonenko N. Keystone, which the artist sought to reveal - the work and life of the Ukrainian people. Pimonenko N. Each work of the artist reflects a deep idea. The artist was born in a bourgeois family. Nicholas's father, Korniliy Danilovich Pimonenko was a woodc cut and the owner of the icon -painting workshop. As a child, Nikolai often went with his father to the village and watched the life of the peasants.

Many of his early children's memories are the basis of numerous paintings. When the boy grew up, his father gave him to school at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra to teach the craft of icon painting. Here, in the year, the talent of Nikolai Pimonenko was seen by the director of the drawing school in Kyiv, Murashko Nikolai Ivanovich. This man played a large role in the formation of Nikolai Pimonenko as a creative person.

Murashko N. If it were not for this fact of mercy and an understanding of the development of talent, it is not known how the fate of young talent would have developed. Here the boy took lessons from Joseph Budkevich, Khariton Platonov. The very next year, following the enrolled in this drawing school, Nikolai Pimonenko was called the best student and promising talent.

He was enrolled in the school state tutor. Two years later, Nikolai successfully graduates from the appropriation of the specialty “Drawing Teacher”. After graduation, the next step on the way to the professional mastery of art craft. In the year, Nikolai Pimonenko enters the Imperial Academy of Arts. His studies and the formation as an artist took place in the workshop of Vladimir Orlovsky.

Later, Nikolai Pimonenko marries the daughter of Orlovsky. Gradually, a series of awards for fruitful and successful work begins. Get three medals two small silver and one large silver medal. Unfortunately, the weak health of Nikolai Pimonenko prevented him from staying at the Academy. And two years later, studies here, the artist is forced to leave the place and go to Kyiv. Here he enters the post of teacher of the senior link in the Kyiv drawing school.

The artist is engaged in teaching until the closure of the school in the year. This educational institution was under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At one time he worked as a state adviser. Since the year, he was engaged in teaching at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander, taught students schedule until his death.

In parallel with teaching, he was successfully engaged in creativity. In the beginning of the x. XIX century. Such artistic canvases as the “Wedding in the Kyiv province” and “The morning of Christ of the Resurrection” allowed the artist to receive the title of Honor Free Communist Academy of Arts. Pimonenko took an active part in public life, exposing work at exhibitions abroad.

The author of the picture "Gopak" was awarded a medal with a gold tint at an international exhibition. Moreover, this picture was so highly appreciated by the society of French artists that it was acquired from the author of the most famous museum of the world, the Louvre. Often, the artist was awarded at the international class exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, Munich and others.

Pimonenko was part of the mobile exhibitions of artists, the partnership of South Russian artists, the Paris International Union of Art and Literature and the Munich community of artists. Soon Nikolai Pimonenko became seriously ill on the spring day, March 26, the great Ukrainian artist was buried in Kyiv. The most famous paintings by Pimonenko, Nikolai Korniilovich, the representative of such an artistic direction as realism, Pimonenko N.

The most famous of them are: “matchmakers”, “Holy fortune -telling”, “Harvest in Ukraine”, “Eye of evening”, “Ukrainian night. Date ”,“ haymaking ”, near,“ Easter mocking in Little Russia ”,“ The victim of fanaticism ”, the latter is one of the most famous paintings by the artist. A real story was taken as a basis with the seizure line, read by the artist in the newspaper, which spoke about the beating of the girl by members of the Jewish community, for daring for the sake of her lover to go over to the side of Christianity.

The picture is written in oil. The mood of each figure is masterfully conveyed on the canvas. And someone, on the contrary, has envy and anger in his eyes. The belonging of Pimonenko’s paintings Nikolai Korniovich to artistic styles as a child, as a child, Nikolai Pimonenko, became interested in the life of ordinary peasants. The theme of his paintings is life, everyday or festive, everyday or elegant, but life, realistically displayed.

Realism has become the main genre area of ​​artist’s artistic activity. Most of the artistic paintings are located in the homeland of the artist, in Ukraine. The paintings are in the expositions of the Kharkov National Art Museum, the Odessa Art Museum, the Rybinsk State Historical and Architectural, Art Museum, the Kursk Regional Picture Gallery, the Volgograd Regional Museum of Fine Arts, etc.