Mykola Pymonenko
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Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko (Ukrainian: Микола Корнилович Пимоненко), sometimes spelled Pimonenko (Russian: Николай Корнилович Пимоненко, Nikolay Kornilovich Pimonenko) (b. March 9, 1862, Kiev - d. March 26, 1912, Kiev) was a Russo-Ukrainian painter. One of the most eminent Ukrainian genre painters Pymonenko was widely acclaimed in the Russian Empire; A member of the Imperial Academy of Arts since 1904 and of a progressive Peredvizhniki artistic movement and the turn of the century.
A number of Pimonenko's paintings are, in fact, generalized portraits which are the embodiment of a popular ideal of the working man. The artist also turned to the theme of peasant labour, depicting typical scenes from everyday life against the backdrop of a landscape.
Mykola Pymonenko. Fortune-Telling on Christmastide. 1888. Oil on canvas. 111 × 76.5 cm. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg |
Harvester, Oil on canvas. 137 x 75 cm. 1889, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev |
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- Pimonenko
- Pymonenko, Mykola at Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Eleonora Blazhko, "The Academician of the Arts", Zerkalo Nedeli, July 24-30, 1999. (Russian)
- Olga Zhbankova, "The classicists and the contemporaries", Zerkalo Nedeli (The Mirror Weekly), February 18-24, 2003. (Russian), (Ukrainian)