page_title: Mykhaylo Chornyi
section_title: Education, career
hierarchical_section_title: Mykhaylo Chornyi / Education, career
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Михайло Чорний. "Поминки на місцях боїв".1985, - полотно,олія. - 150х200 смEnglish: Chornyi Mykhaylo. Remembrance Day at the Battle field. 1985. - oil, canvas. - 150x200 cm.
context_page_description: Mykhaylo Nikiforovich Chornyi is a Ukrainian Realist, Neo-Primitivist painter and graphic artist. Chornyi is described as "the founder of Ukrainian Neo-Folk Style". A member of Ukrainian National Artists' Union since 1968.
  People's Artist of Ukraine.
context_section_description: Mykhaylo Chornyi studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year he entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin. 
  
  At the post-graduate school in Soviet Academy of Arts he studied in Sergey Grigoriev's and Mykhaylo Deregus's workshop. 
  He transformed the Socialist realism artistic manner he was taught through a Ukrainian academic romanticism and historicism, rare at that time of Soviet censorship and pressure, to a new folk artistic style.
caption: Widdows commemorating their husbands at the battle field. 1985 - oil, canvas. - 150x200 cm.
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