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"Remembering the Hetman" - the Art Museum presents an exhibition of one painting by M. Bondarenko (1914-1999) "Death of Ivan Mazepa"
"Remembering the Hetman" - the Art Museum presents an exhibition of one painting by M. Bondarenko (1914-1999) "Death of Ivan Mazepa"
On September 21, 2021, the exhibition "Remembering the Hetman" was opened in the Art Museum
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (1639-1709), as an outstanding political and military leader of Ukraine, gradually took a worthy place in the pantheon of Ukrainian heroes-fighters for Independence. At the beginning of the XVIII century. it was during his hetmanship that Ukraine got a chance to get out of Moscow's influence. After the defeat in the Battle of Poltava (1709), the hetman found refuge in the Moldavian principality, the city of Bender, which belonged to the Ottoman Empire, where he passed away on September 21/22, 1709. According to Wikipedia, Mazepa was later reburied in Gala?i (now Romania), and two years after the Ottomans destroyed the hetman's grave, the Cossacks reburied his body.
Today's exposition of one painting presents the work of Mykola Hnatovych Bondarenko (1914-1999) "Death of Hetman Ivan Mazepa", 1997-1998.
This work is one of those works of the artist, which convinces of the boundless love for Ukraine, which the author had to carry throughout his life, waiting for the Independence of the Ukrainian state. A peculiar ode to this event was the writing of a number of works: "Cossack Ambush" (1995), "Ukraine is not dead" (1993), "The Last Poems of the Kobzar" (1989) and "Death of Ivan Mazepa" (1997-1998).
On the canvas, the hetman is depicted as completely frail, surrounded by people close to him. In the foreground - the chronicler of the hetman and a small table on which is the symbol of the Ukrainian state - the mace. The work gradually illustrates and conveys the tragedy of the moment, the artist seeks the power of emotions and colors to convey the feeling of great loss for the Ukrainian nation.
The artist conveys to the viewer the feeling of a fateful event, when the hetman gives the last instructions, which in the future became the basis for further struggle for an independent Ukrainian state.
Mykola Pravda - senior researcher of Tourist, Local Lore and Informational
Work Department
Kropyvnytskyi Art Museum
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