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Exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Feliks Polonskyi

Look attentively, pause - and you’ll plunge

in a completely unknown

Diverse and colorful world of a Sorcerer

of the brush, where everything breathes with a fair

Positive energetics

Everything is imbued with sublime

artistic aesthetics ...

              Volodymyr Mohyliuk

 

On 4 August 2016, the jubilee exhibition "Master of lyrical motive” of Feliks Mykhailovych Polonskyi, our artist-countryman, a member of Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine, opened in Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum. 

In the hot days of August fans of realism fine art will enjoy the exhibition of Kirovohrad artist Feliks Polonskyi. In January the artist celebrated his 75th anniversary. But the anniversary year continues, and we have an excellent opportunity to admire the artworks by Feliks Mykhailovych Polonskyi, a subtle lyric poet and philosopher fallen in love with nature. 

An art critic Andrii Nadiezhdin said that "... the master (Polonskyi) has developed a personal artistic style. The conditional character of the compositional space, playing with surfaces, color saturation, and the depth of paint, applied with vertical or horizontal strokes, form a special style. His works are easily recognizable in exhibitions for their decorative, graphical manner, restrained colors, and the peculiarity of a formal decision”. Indeed, one can agree with these words...

On the anniversary exhibition held in walls of Regional Art Museum presents 50 paintings that characterize the creative palette of the master of lyrical motif. Feliks with his usual diligence operates in the genre of landscape, as well as in still life and easel paintings. The theme of nature in the presented works reveals a lyrical and romantic mood of the author and is marked by a harmonious play of colour that radiates warmth and calmness: “Magic of a Summer Night" (2014), "Autumn mood" (2014), "Quiet Nook" (2012) "Winter Morning" (2000), etc. The artist draws attention primarily to himself as a landscape painter who can convey the beauty of the world around, the state of nature in different seasons by means of paints. Such still lifes as "Lilac" (2016), "Sunflowers" (2001) "Poppies" (2004), "Rowan" (2010) and others call sincere emotions when you look at them. The exhibition also represents portraits of friends and relatives the hero of the day: "Hope" (1992), "Autumn Leaves" (2003). The artist turns to the great Ukrainians artistically interpreting their difficult path in his creative work: “Mykola Hohol" (2009), "Pre-dawn Lights" (2008). 

Feliks Polonskyi does not stay aside from charity. He gladly responds to proposals to provide lots for participation in Easter charity auctions that take place within the walls of the art museum. Thus, at the auction this year, he gave an artwork "Sunny Day" (2014).

During the opening of the exhibition Feliks Polonskyi gave such oil paintings as "Milky Way" (1991), “Crying Ashes" (1991) and “There Came a Heavy Red Cloud" (2008) to the stock of Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum.

For reference:

Feliks Mykhailovych Polonskyi was born on 1st January, 1941 in Khmeliove village of Mykolaiv Raion of Kirovohrad region in the family of a serviceman.

In 1968 he graduated from the painting department of Ivanovo Art College (Russian Federation). The formation of the artist as a personality was influenced the most by his teachers Seraphim Troitskii and Ivan Kalashnikov. Having graduated he worked as a graphic designer in Kirovohrad artistic and production workshops of the USSR Art Fund for many years.  In 1996 he was a delegate of the 2nd Congress of the Union of Artists of Ukraine from Kirovohrad regional organization. Feliks is an active participant of regional, national and international art exhibitions - "Exhibition of Kirovohrad Artists in Tolbukhina, Bulgaria" (1978), "Picturesque Ukraine" (1991-2005), “The 50th Anniversary of the Babyn Yar" (1991), "Famine 33“ (1993), "Sport in Art "(1998)," The 60th Anniversary of the Union of Artists of Ukraine” (1998), "Autumn Salon” (1993, 1994, 2000), “The 70th Anniversary of the Union of Artists of Ukraine” (2008), "Colorful Ukraine" (2013) and others.

By the mid 80s F. Polonskyi was engaged with monumental decorative painting and this influenced the development of all his subsequent work. His paintings can be seen in the regional hospital for war veterans, Kirovohrad State Technical University, Memorial Museum of underground Komsomol organization Spartak (Krasnohirka, Holovanivsk Raion) and in other institutions of the region.

He has also had a lot of solo exhibitions:

March, 1993 - Kirovohrad, art salon;

August, 1996 - Kirovohrad, Barva Trade Union;

March, 1999 - Kirovohrad, art salon;

September, 1999 - The Federal Republic of Germany, Wuppertal, Barmen;

November, 2002 - Kirovohrad, regional art museum;

August, 2004 - Kirovohrad, regional art museum;

January, 2006 - Kirovohrad, regional art museum;

January, 2011 - Kirovohrad, regional art museum;

October, 2014 - Kirovohrad, Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum;

September, 2015 - Kirovohrad, Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum;

January, 2016 - Kirovohrad, art gallery “Yelysavethrad”.

 In 2004, Feliks Polonskyi was awarded MCU Honorary Award for “Achievements in the Development of Arts and Culture”, he was the winner of the regional prize in Fine Arts and Art Studies named after Oleksander Osmerkin in the nomination "national tradition” in 2007, and in 2011 he was awarded the Diploma of Kirovohrad Regional Council.

 The artworks by Feliks Polonskyi are kept in the collections of the Ministry of culture of Ukraine, Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum, Kirovohrad Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Poland, Israel, and USA .

 During the grand opening of the exhibition the first deputy head of Kirovohrad regional state administration Sergii Kovalenko made a welcoming speech, wishing the hero of an anniversary long fruitful years of creative activity, Andrii Khvorost,  the head of Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine greeted Feliks with warm sincere words. Andrii Nadiezhdin, an art critic, Honored Artist of Ukraine, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, and a leading researcher of Kirovohrad Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum congratulated on the opening of the exhibition from the museum’s team. An old friend of Feliks Polonskyi, an art critic, honored journalist of Ukraine Bronislav Petrovych Kumanskyi sincerely congratulated the artist upon the remarkable opening day. And Valerii Miatovych, Honored journalist of Ukraine, the chief editor of “Z Pershych Vust” newspaper even gave the hero of the day a book as a gift. Felix Polonskyi received a greeting letter and a bouquet of summer flowers from the whole staff of Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum

Lesia Dmitriieva, research assistant

of Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum’s

scientific-educational activity department