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"Spring mood"
On April 6, 2018, the Spring Mood exhibition was opened in Kirovohrad Oblast Art Museum and was devoted to Spring.
Spring has always been considered as a magical time, which reveals new opportunities of nature and human, awakens and enlivens everything around, reinforces feelings, discovers new talents. This year, it made us wait, impressed with extreme, sometimes dramatic weather changes. In spite of this, it is easier to breathe in spring air deeply, a gulp of such air suffuse body and gives joy and good mood. Spring brings long-awaited warmth and bright rays of the sun, and period of many interesting traditions, which people passed from generation to generation. One of them is the calling of spring ceremony. After all, the arrival of spring heat gave an impetus to the beginning of the new crop cycle and infused a powerful stream of vital energy.
The imagination of our ancestors created a poetic image of spring-girl with a garland of flowers, that "somewhere in the garden sews the sorochka". Sometimes Spring was a beautiful woman - mother. It was believed that this beautiful girl was very rich and gave lavish gifts, thus people were looking for her early in the morning, before sunrise: they ran on the hills, came to gates, climbed on the roof of barns or shed and invited her with songs. Women, girls and children usually called the spring. In the Ukrainian tradition, spring was the time of Life awakening -everything alive and cheerful. Several major religious holidays are also celebrated in the spring. One gets peculiar spring mood, inherent only to this period.
The exhibition presents the composition of works from the museum's stock collection, consisting of bright spring landscapes, still lifes, works with profound philosophical content and Easter motives.
Among the landscapes special are the art works of brush masters - S. A. Dryga (1960) Vilkovski Apple Trees (2003); A.V. Khvorost (1968) Apple Garden (2013); I. M. Beklemisheva (1908-1988) Spring water(1962); M.H. Bondarenko (1914-1999), Spring Motif (1993); F.M. Polonskyi (1941), Spring Day (2001); P.I. Kodiev (1899-1968) Near Dnipro Rapids (1950s); A.M. Niurenberh (1887- 1979) Under Apple Trees in Blossom (1939).
Palm Sunday is the first of the big spring holidays, which certifies the awakening of nature, begins last week before Easter, and, what is the most important, gives hope for the victory of life over death, the triumph of spring, good and peace. Palm Sunday is also the motif of the compositional work by V.V. Kozlov (1951) - Palm Sunday (2006), as well as of artwork by Yu.S. Botnara (1949-2016) - Palm Sunday (2009).
Continuing to reproduce the spring Easter mood on the canvas such artists as A.O. Horbenko (1944), Easter Evening (2002); A.O. Danylov (1941), Easter (1989); V.I. Osypenko (1958-2016) Easter Morning (1994); V.H. Plitin (1956) Dreams (1991). Also it included artwork by L.I. Kryvenko (1948) - Easter (2017), executed in the complicated technique of the patchwork. This work literally on the eve became a part of the stock collection of the museum; it was acquired at the IX Easter Charity Auction and was donated by a philanthropist I.A. Saienko to the museum collection stock.
Natural supplement to the spring mood is the composition of still lives, depicting bouquets of spring flowers, created by O.V. Kolomiiets (1964) - March (2009); A.D. Kimnatnyi (1980) - Lilac (2009); A.M. Kadyhrob (1981) - White Lilac (2004); V.H. Tovkailo - Crocus (1997) and others.
The harmonious combination of the exhibition Spring Mood landscapes and still lives recreate the incredible world of spring colors, give hope for miracles and inspire to enjoy life, remind that summer is coming and winter has gone.
ANNA NEDLINSKA - RESEARCHER
OF SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL WORK DEPARTMENT
OF KIROVOHRAD OBLAST ART MUSEUM
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