Oil painting Odessa is a delightful city Sidoruk Volodymyr Fedorovich

№Verne 371

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Odessa is a delightful city"
* ARTISTS: Sidoruk Volodymyr Fedorovich
* SIZE: 70x84 cm/'27.55x33.07 inches', Frame size: 90x105 cm/'35.43х41.33 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artist: Ukrainian painter. Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Vladimir Fedorovich Sidoruk was born on January 3, 1925 in the village of Rzhishchev near Kiev into a peasant family.
From 1939 to 1941, the future artist studied at the Republican Art School named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv. His teachers were Ivan Hvorostetsky (a student of F. Krichevsky) and Georgy Kiyanchenko. The influence of these masters, the high level of teaching will allow Vladimir, even without having received a higher art education, to become an outstanding painter.
During the Great Patriotic War, he served as an artist at the Stanislavsky transit point of the regional military registration and enlistment office.
After demobilization, in September 1945, Vladimir Sidoruk remained in the city of Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk), where he was in charge of a decorative workshop and at the same time worked as a director of the Stanislav Music and Drama Theater. I. Franko. Designed the performances "Stolen Happiness" by I. Franko, "Taras Bulba" by N. Gogol, "Nazar Stodolia" by T. Shevchenko. Preparatory drawings for these performances, watercolor sketches have been preserved.
Vladimir Sidoruk liked to draw from nature. During creative trips to the Hutsul region, he is also fond of local color. The result of these creative trips were the portraits of "Hutsulka Xenia", "Dovbush", "Portrait of Fedkovich", "Twirling from Polonini".
In the same period, the artist completed three paintings "Marko Cheremshina among students of the Day", "Panorama of the village of Kobaki" and "Mark Cheremshiny's garden" for the literary and memorial museum of the writer. Sidoruk also made twenty-five watercolor illustrations for Cheremshina's works, which were exhibited in 1949 at an exhibition in Stanislav.
In 1950, the painter was offered to join the Kiev Cooperative Association of Artists and he and his family returned to their native Kiev region and settled in the city of Irpin.
In 1951-1953. V. Sidoruk continues to work on the creation of the image of M. Cheremshina, he writes the painting “The Funeral of Mark Cheremshina” for the Stanislav Art Museum. In 1954, by order of the Literary and Memorial Museum of Y. Fedkovich in Chernivtsi, he painted the canvas “Meeting at the grave of Yuriy Fedkovich on the days of resurrection”.
During 1955-1960. the artist created six canvases for the museum-estate of the surgeon Nikolai Pirogov.
A characteristic feature of the master's creative method was the writing of landscape compositions from nature, without breaking away. He wrote with inspiration and quickly, wanting to preserve the first feelings and emotions from what he saw. He expressed his vision of nature with the help of decorative, rich and at the same time sophisticated painting.
Thematic works occupy a special place in the artist's creative heritage. The painter is attracted by the legendary events of the period of Kievan Rus, the victorious struggle of the Ukrainian people led by B. Khmelnitsky. VF Sidoruk paints canvases dedicated to the life of Taras Shevchenko.
With great enthusiasm and love, the artist creates paintings on Cossack themes: "Stop the Cossacks at the battle near Berestechko", "Maxim Krivonis" (1992). The writing of these works was preceded by a long preparatory work. Vladimir Fedorovich carefully studied Ukrainian history, paintings by I. Repin, A. Murashko, N. Samokish, M. Deregus.
Art historians note another line in the work of V.F. Sidoruk. In it, the artist gives preference to purely pictorial forms, creating abstract canvases. These paintings amaze with their special picturesqueness, unusually beautiful and complex coloring and unrevealed, veiled meaning. The most expressive of them: “Gorda Ra-Meneis. (From the teacher's fantasies of Lesya Ukrainka)”, “Dykansky devil”, “Nich before Christmas. (Demoni)”, “The Princess in the Cristal Throne”, “The Knight in the Panther's Skin”, “Carmen. (Evening carnival)”, “Fashion models. (For Toulouse Lautrec)”, “On the Theme of Mary Stuart”, “The Remaining Victim. (Woman after the atomic catastrophe).
The artist worked easily, quickly, and freely solved compositional problems. As eyewitnesses recall, at first he laid the entire canvas with blue paint, placed objects, verified relationships, and then saturated the created composition with all the richness of colors seen in nature. This method of work embodied the best features of the national academic school, a faithful follower of which Vladimir Fedorovich Sidoruk remained all his life.
Since 1954 - an active participant in republican, all-Union and foreign art exhibitions.
Since 1957 - a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1980 V.F. Sidoruk received the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
The artist died on December 16, 1997.
The works of Vladimir Fedorovich Sidoruk are presented in numerous museum, gallery and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.