On June 18, the National Art Museum of Ukraine opened the exhibition “Olexander Murashko. Color Modulations,” which brings together approximately 50 paintings by the prominent Ukrainian artist. This is the first personal exhibition of Mitz at NAMU for the remaining 25 years: she pays respect to his position as one of the most beautiful representatives of Ukrainian modernism.
Oleksandr Murashko
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Oleksandr Murashko gained recognition at international exhibitions, achieved great success behind the border, and especially loved Batkivshchyna. “It’s light here, there’s sunshine here, there’s wonderful nature, there’s its own culture,” the artist wrote.
EARLY PERIOD
Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Murashko was born on the 7th spring of 1875. The current artist did not know his father, and his mother had never known him. Until the 18th century, he bore his mother's nickname – Krachkovsky, and only after the official procedure changed it to the nickname of his father. The first twelve fates of life are considered by an unknown period in the artist’s biography.
Village homeland. 1914 r_k
It has been established that the six-fold Alexandra was taken from his family by his mother’s brother, who was a sack near the town of Borzna in the Chernihiv region. There, the grandmother took care of him, she loved the boy so much, she told him stories about the Cossacks, and she learned to appreciate the beauty of nature. When the future artist turned up, his mother married Oleksandr Ivanovich Murashok, maternal feelings awoke in her and she decided to take the boy to her. Sashko moved to Chernigov, where he was in charge of Oleksandr Murashko Volodiv with a small iconographic mastery. In a short time, we moved it to Kiev, where we began work on the additions to the Volodymyr Cathedral, and took our homeland from us. At this hour, we began to get our hands on iconography. That young Oleksandr rushed to enroll in the art school of Mikoli Murashka (the brother of the witch) and seriously learned painting. A conflict is brewing, so that the 15-year-old boy will leave his father’s house. This was an important hour: Sashko lived, often went hungry, spent the night on barges and shrines of the Dnieper. The professor at the University of St. Volodymyr, Adrian Prakhov, who at that time painted paintings at the Volodymyr Cathedral, helped me not to lose heart.
INTERMEDIATE STAGE
Mine of all sorts of fates, the first conflict will be settled: Prahov managed to convince Murashk the elder, and in 1894 Oleksandr decided to go to St. Petersburg, where he successfully went to the Great Art School at the Academy mystical In 1896, he entered the Master of Illya Ripina and became his favorite teacher. At the Academy, the young artist spent time in self-illumination. Getting closer to the group of Ukrainian artists Opanas Slastion. When I arrived in Ukraine, there was plenty of sun, warmth and such beautiful nature. Not without hesitation, Repin chose a theme for the competition: it was the historically pobutov painting “The Funeral of the Cat.” The paintings were awarded first place and more to the Academy Museum, and the author himself was denied a scholarship for travel abroad. Murashko worked in Paris and Munich, who, according to Antonovich’s words, helped me overcome Ripin’s influx.
“Funeral of the Koshovoy”, 1900 rub.
KIEV PERIOD
In 1907, the artist moved to Kiev and settled in his stepfather’s cabin on Mala Zhytomyrska Street, 14. Here the artist painted his most famous works. Murashko brilliantly demonstrated his talent at the jubilee exhibition of his uncle – Mikoli Murashka, born in 1908. For his work, a large room was allocated. Maister exhibited paintings: “Carousel”, portraits of J. Stanislavsky, M. Murashka, “On the Kovzantsi”, “On the Terrace”, “At the Stern” and so on. Then, in 1909, he won a gold medal at the international exhibition in Munich for the painting “Carousel” and showed his work at the Venice Biennale. Dekilka Rokiv Murashko was an active participant in the Munich Secession. He also held personal exhibitions in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Berlin. I, of course, taking an active part in the mystical life of Kiev. We recognized the powerful style of painting, combining impressionism with realism.
O. Murashko. Week. 1911.
In 1909, Oleksandr Oleksandrovich started his creative activity at the Kiev Art School, and within three years he had opened a private studio. After his death in 1910, Murashko sold his family to Maliya Zhitomirsky and added a small house with a garden to Lukyanivtsi, creating a workshop. In 1917, his family graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Arts: Murashko graduated from one of the majors in painting.
Pariska kav'yarnya, 1903
On the night of June 14, 1919, a fire broke out near the house of Oleksandr Murashka on Lukyanivtsi, ending the life of the talented Ukrainian artist. Having died at the age of 44, he died at the hands of the Bolsheviks.
Text: Oksana Bagriy
