The depiction of the environment in art is a louder testament to the era than it might seem at first glance. Reproducing images of their reality, artists not only fix it, but also enrich it with their own worldview.
Landscape was the leading genre in Ukrainian art of the 19th century. Emotionally saturated images of the environment played a significant role in the construction of historical compositions, penetrated the portrait, subjugated the everyday picture. The theme of the harmonious union of man and nature as a leitmotif permeates the works of painting and literature of that time.
Sometimes this topic acquires a distinctly dramatic sound. The 19th century is a difficult age: technological progress and the development of society led to the destruction of the usual natural environment, the historical landscape, and broke the interrelationships of man and the land on which he lived and worked, sanctified by age-old tradition. Rapid changes created restlessness, a sense of loss of support, regret for the rural idyll that was inexorably receding into the past.
Already next Friday, we will talk about what philosophical ideas are contained in the landscape images of prominent artists of the era – Volodymyr Orlovskyi, Serhiy Vasylkivskyi, Serhiy Svitoslavskyi, Mykola Pymonenko, Petro Levchenko, Kyriak Kostandi, Hryhoriy Svitlytskyi and many others.
🔸 Lecturer: Lesya Tolstova, Deputy General Director for Scientific Work of NAMU. Mrs. Lesya is one of the leading researchers of the art of the 19th and early 20th centuries. For about 20 years, she has been engaged in the preservation and study of the museum collection of this period, as well as its popularization in exhibitions, lectures and publications. Lesya Tolstova’s scientific interests are focused on the Kyiv School of Drawing (1875–1901) and the work of Kyiv artists, including Mykola Murashko, Hryhoriy Diyadchenko, Serhii Vasylkivskyi, Ivan Selezniov, Petro Nilus, Kyriak Kostandi and others.
🔸 October 13 at 4:00 p.m
🔸 Cost: full ticket – 200 UAH, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – 100 UAH.
🔸 Registration here.
📌 Unfortunately, for technical reasons, payment by card is temporarily unavailable at the museum. Currently, payment is possible in cash or by card transfer.
📌 In the event of an air alert, we ask all visitors to immediately go to the shelter. The nearest shelters are located at street Khreschatyk, 4 (underpass near the Dnipro Hotel) and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station.
📌 If less than 60 minutes of the event have passed by the time the triple alarm is announced, we will continue the lecture after the alarm ends or another day. If the event lasted 60 minutes or more, it is considered to have taken place.
You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building.
🖼 A fragment of Mykola Pymonenko’s work “Before the Storm”, 1906, is used on the cover.
