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“Creative burning "uncomfortable" artist "

He, like an asteroid,

traced our  sky and burned,

leaving a bright trace

                                                                       on ourselves "

                                                                       Viktor Zahubybatko.

 

Yakiv Petrovych Kalashnik distinctive and original artist, with a special vision of the world with his creative manner. Its durable contribution to Ukrainian culture during the totalitarian state did not get the attention of scientists due to the creative "dissent" and the hidden Ukrainophilia, which was clearly interpreted by communist ideology as bourgeois nationalism. Yakiv Kalashnik did not write socialist realism in the form that would please the representatives of the authorities, the "uncomfortable" artist was criticized for allegedly the influence of Western bourgeois painting on his work.

In the years of his life  art historians and journalists, Kalashnik's name tried not to mention and not to notice

 The future master of painting was born on May 25, 1927, in the village of Lystopadov, Novomyrhorodskyi district of the Kirovohrad region. During the Second World War, he and his father took part in the guerrilla movement. After the war, he graduated from the factory and worked as a turner at the factory. In 1946-1951 he studied at the Odessa Art School. In 1952-1959 he studied at the Riga Academy of Arts where his teachers were famous Latvian painters Otto Skulma and Eduard Kalnynysh. After graduating from the academy, he got to Dnipropetrovsk(now Dnipro). He taught at the local art school, where his students were famous contemporary artists Feodosii Humeniuk, Mykhailo Nadiezhdin, Volodymyr Volokhov, Viktor Zahubybatko and many other famous artists.  In total for eight years of his life in Dnipropetrovsk(now Dnipro), Yakiv Petrovych became a master of painting, a teacher for many talented students, enjoyed the pain of creativity, gave a decent rebuff to the envious, suffered from an incurable illness and went to another world on November 5, 1967. Artist buried according to his testament in his native village Lystopadov, Novomyrhorodskyi district of the Kirovohrad region.

The memory of the famous artist gradually returns including by promoting his work through exhibitions and expositions. So in the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum on May 25, 2012, an exhibition "Master of etudes" was opened to the artist's 85th anniversary and in the museum of Ukrainian painting in  Dnipropetrovsk in June 2015, a retrospective exhibition of works by Yakiv Petrovych Kalashnik was held. By the way, part of the exposition consisted also of paintings from the stock collection of the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum

The basis of the exhibition "Creative burning" of an uncomfortable artist “ were such works "In the Blue Land" (1966),"Courtyard" (1955),”Black poplars"(1962-1963), “Geologists “(1959)," Rafters" (1959), “Morning”(1958).

Yakiv Petrovych had an indisputable talent for the master of portrait painting,  which is represented on the exhibition by portraits "Worker" (1961),    Portrait of the Girl (1965-1966),  Portrait of a Man (1958),    "Women's Portrait" (1961),"The Portrait of the Old" (1949),    Portrait of a Student (1961). By the way, this "Portrait of a Student", written in 1961, is a portrait of one of the pupils of Yakiv Petrovych Mykhailo Nadiezhdin, a fifth-year student who studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Art College. Mykhailo Volodymyrovych Nadiezhdin, born 1935 - People's Artist of Ukraine, the founder of the Kirovohrad Board of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, who has been the head of the Regional Union of Local Artists for over 25 years, visited the exhibition and shared his memories about the artist and his work. These unquestionably interesting memories from the very first, a man who knew well Yakiv Petrovych discovered the little-known landmarks of the work of an outstanding artist - fellow countryman.

In total at the exhibition, visitors will see 27 paintings of our countryman,  without exaggeration of the outstanding master of the brush of Yakiv Petrovych Kalashnik.      

             

                                        Mykola Pravda-researcher at the
Department of Tourist Information and Information Work of
                                  Regional Art Museum