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An exhibition of works by Mykola Glushchenko dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth has been opened at the Art Museum

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian painter Mykola Glushchenko (1901-1907), The Art Museum invites you to view an exhibition of works of art from the museum stock collection - "Symbolism and Lyrics of Mykola Glushchenko."

In total in the treasury of the museum there are 22 paintings that belong to the master's brush. The first 4 works were transferred to the museum back in 1965 from the Directorate of Art Exhibitions (Kyiv) on the occasion of the opening of the Kirovohrad Art Gallery, which was then located in the modern premises of the Church of the Transfiguration. Olena Nozemtseva, the director of the Kirovohrad Regional Museum of Local Lore (1953-1967), a branch of which was the newly created Kirovohrad Art Gallery at that time, actively contributed to this. Another 18 works by Mykola Glushchenko were donated to the museum by the Directorate of Art Exhibitions in 1979 thanks to the first director of the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum, Mykola Fedotov.

Mykola Petrovich Glushchenko (1901-1977) is an artist gifted with great talent with an extremely interesting destiny. People's Artist, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize. Mykola Glushchenko is known in the art world as an unsurpassed master of landscape and impressionist, his work is more than 10 thousand works of art, which are stored in private collections and museums in Ukraine, France, Germany, USA, Russia, Canada.

The artist comes from the city of Novomoskovsk in the modern Dnipropetrovsk region, where he was born on September 17, 1901. Fate gave Nikolai Glushchenko an extremely interesting life in which he had to fight in Anton Denikin's Volunteer Army, study at the Berlin Higher School of Fine Arts, be a Soviet spy in the West and, according to unconfirmed reports, Yevgeny Konovalets' agent in the USSR. Mykola Glushchenko had to meet with famous personalities of the Ukrainian national liberation movement who emigrated to the West, among them were Vasyl Vyshyvany, Pavlo Skoropadsky, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko.

Living in France and Spain in 1925-1936, the artist wrote in the style of French Impressionism, Ukrainian "Claude Monet" called Nikolai Glushchenko supporters of his work and contemporaries.

The exhibition "Symbolism and Lyrics of Mykola Glushchenko" presents the landscape works of the master: "Old Bridge. Belgrade, 1966; "Sea. Storm, 1966; Dnipro, 1972; "Pink willow", "Crimea. Gurzuf »,« Landscape. Late autumn. All these works of the artist belong to the landscape direction in the work of the master. Bright colors and symbolism transmitted through the light show the picturesque mood in tandem with the genius of the author. Mykola Glushchenko's landscapes are subtle, lyrical, sensual and "delicious", they convey the mood, and they also say that landscape painters are the most patriotic patriots of their homeland. Time stopped on the landscapes of the artist, nature, living its solemn life, froze. That the artist did not write in it everything turned out light and bright. The author loved to use bright colors, conveying through them his dreams and fantasies, bathing in colors and landscapes.

Mykola Glushchenko died on October 31, 1977 in Kyiv, and was buried in Baykovo Cemetery.

Mykola Pravda - senior researcher at Tourism, Local History and Informational Work Department

Kropyvnytskyi Art Museum