Portal talk:Ukraine/Ukrainian paintings

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===Easter===
Pimonenko was a Ukrainian painter. One of the most eminent Ukrainian genre painters Pymonenko was widely acclaimed in the Russian Empire. A member of the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1904 and of a progressive Peredvizhniki artistic movement and the turn of the century.
A number of Pimonenko's paintings are, in fact, generalized portraits which are the embodiment of a popular ideal of the working man. The artist also turned to the theme of peasant labour, depicting typical scenes from everyday life against the backdrop of a landscape.
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Perfect painting for "Easter" time portal painting rotation.  Are there others on the same theme?--Riurik(discuss) 19:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: Pimonenko was a Ukrainian painter. One of the most eminent Ukrainian genre painters Pymonenko was widely acclaimed in the Russian Empire. A member of the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1904 and of a progressive Peredvizhniki artistic movement and the turn of the century.
A number of Pimonenko's paintings are, in fact, generalized portraits which are the embodiment of a popular ideal of the working man. The artist also turned to the theme of peasant labour, depicting typical scenes from everyday life against the backdrop of a landscape.
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Perfect painting for "Easter" time portal painting rotation.  Are there others on the same theme?--Riurik(discuss) 19:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:PimonenkoNK PashalZautrRYB.jpg|Easter]]

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===By the water well===
Konstiantyn Trutovsky was a Ukrainian realist painter and graphic artist.  His artistic heritage includes numerous genre screens on Ukrainian themes.  Trutovsky was interested in ethnography and depicted colorful Ukrainian folk customs, not shying away from "a dash of good humour".
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A beautiful painting of a girl and a boy on his horse, next to the water well.--Riurik(discuss) 19:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: Konstiantyn Trutovsky was a Ukrainian realist painter and graphic artist.  His artistic heritage includes numerous genre screens on Ukrainian themes.  Trutovsky was interested in ethnography and depicted colorful Ukrainian folk customs, not shying away from "a dash of good humour".
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A beautiful painting of a girl and a boy on his horse, next to the water well.--Riurik(discuss) 19:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:Trutovskyi U kolodiazia.jpg|By the water well]]

message: The region of Podillya is a historical region in the west-central and south-west portions of present-day Ukraine, corresponding to Khmelnytskyi Oblast and Vinnytsia Oblast. Transnistria, in Moldova is also a part of of Podillya. Podolia lies south of Volhynia, southwest of the Kiev Region, northeast of the Dniester River, and east of Galicia across the Zbruch River, a tributary of the Dniester.  It has an area of about 40,000 km², extending for  from northwest to southeast on the left bank of the Dniester.
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A noteworthy portrait of a Ukrainian girl.--Riurik(discuss) 06:54, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:Tropinin.jpg|Girl from Podillia]]

message: Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, economist, and political activist.  He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Goethe and Schiller into the Ukrainian language. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous impact on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine.
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Nice painting of an important figure. —dima/talk/ 04:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:Ivan franko by trush.jpg|Ivan Franko]]

message: Mykola Kornylovyh Pymonenko was a Russo-Ukrainian painter. One of the most eminent Ukrainian genre painters Pymonenko was widely acclaimed in the Russian Empire; A member of the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1904 and of a progressive Peredvizhniki artistic movement and the turn of the century.
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Good quality and high resolution painting. —dima/s-ko/ 04:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:PimonenkoN SvyatochGadanGRM.jpg|Black Square]]

message: Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1879 – May 15, 1935) was a painter and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. Malevich was born in Kiev, Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. He studied at the Kiev School of Art (1895–1896), the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1904–1910) and in the studio of Fedor Rerberg in Moscow (1904–1910).
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No joke. He was a famous Ukrainian painter of the Russian avant-garde, and I believe that this is one of his most famous works. If some think it is too abstract, how about this one this one. —dima/s-ko/ 03:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:Malevich.black-square.jpg|Black Square]]

message: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey is a famous painting by the Russian artist Ilya Repin. The 2.58-metre by 2.03-metre canvas was started in 1880 and not finished until 1891.  Repin recorded the years of work along the lower edge of the canvas. Alexander III bought the painting for 35,000 rubles, at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting. Since then, the canvas has been exhibited in the Russian Museum of Alexander III in Saint Petersburg.
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Great quality for such a historic painting and is now a Featured picture on the Commons. —dima/s-ko/ 00:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:Repin Cossacks.jpg|Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks]]

message: Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( – ) was a Ukrainian poet, also an artist and a humanist. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, of modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko also wrote in Russian and left several masterpiece paintings.
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Even though this is not a painting, I think this is a good representation of the famous Ukrainian poet and painter. Can we allow it? —dima/s-ko/ 02:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Image:TarasShevchenko.jpg|Taras Shevchenko]]

message: *Support.  What do you mean it's not a painting?  Isn't it a self-portrait?--Riurik (discuss) 22:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: The particular image file is not of exceptionally high quality or resolution. Not too bad either. The image itself is no doubt worthy. --Irpen 00:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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