BRAMA, Feb 16, 2004, 1:00 am ET
Ukrainian-born artists featured in Southern California Exhibition and Gallery
— by Max Pyziur
Recently, Sparrow Fine Art, a southern California gallery based north of San Diego, has begun featuring Ukrainian-born artists in its offerings as part of a larger group of Soviet-era productions. In addition, many of the works of these artists were recently featured in an exhibition, which ran from November 15th 2003 through January 15th 2004 at the Barracks Gallery at the Mission San Juan Capistrano.
The theme of the exhibition/the collection is "Soviet Period Russian Impressionism". However, as one anonymous reviewer noted this is an erroneous labelling. Many of the pieces are done from nature and do have some stylistic affinity to the loose and airy impressionist technique. However, the methods of the artists, as the reviewer points out, are more due to the educational methods of Soviet academies rather than direct influence of artists such as Monet or Degas.
Moreover, since the collection includes Ukrainians and possibly artists of other ethnicities that were
once part of the Soviet Union, calling it "Russian" impressionism is that much more inappropriate.
Nevertheless, the exhibition and the gallery do offer a good direct presentation of these works.
These artists are relatively unknown; neither the Encyclopedia of Ukraine nor the Ykrayins'ka Radians'ka Entsklopediya Slovnyk nor a 1992 extensive directory of Ukrainian artists have anything on these particular individuals. Here are some brief bios obtained at the Mission San Juan Capistrano exhibition:
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"Still Life w/ Peonies"
1966
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Vasili Fedorovich Kondratyuk (1914 -
Born in Kyiv 1914; studied at the Kyiv Art Institute until 1952.
Active in Kyiv.
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Igor Aleksandrovich Popov (1927-
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine 1927
Studied at the Moscow Intermediate Art School 1939-1945; the Sorikov State Art
Institute in Moscow 1945-1951. Active in Moscow since 1954, a participant in Moscow, republican and All-Union exhibitions. Important shows include "Soviet Russia" Moscow 1960. In 1970 he was awarded Silver Medal from the USSR Academy of Arts for the series portraits "Fishermen of Galich".
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"Still Life with Khokloma"
1965
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"Portrait by the Window"
1977
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Viktor I. Reihet (1922-)
Born in Ukraine in 1922. Studied at Odessa University 1938-1940; studied at Odessa Art College; studied at the Repin Institute from 1949. Active in Leningrad; Important shows include "Soviet Russia", Moscow 1960.
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Boris E. Vladimirsky (1878 - 1950)
Born in Kiev. Studied sign painting up to 1888; at N.I. Murashko's Kyiv Drawing School 1898; Kiev Art School (N.K. Pimonenko and I.F. Seleznev studios) 1901-1904; graduated from Munich Academy of Arts in 1908. Was in charge of Y.M. Sverdlov Art Studio in the 1920's. Exhibited with the "Itinerants" 1922. Member of the AkhR/R since 1922. Important shows include exhibiting in all AkhR/R shows since 1922. Personal Exhibitions in Moscow 1914, 1936, 1939, 1950. Works are held in the State Tretyakov Musuem, Central V.I. Lenin Museum (Moscow and St. Petersburg), the art museums of Dnipropetrovsk, Nizny Novogorod, and Luhansk.
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"Farewell"
1940s
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Mission San Juan Capistrano garden
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Mission San Juan Capistrano garden
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