Karlo Zvirynsky


Karlo Iosypovych Zvirynsky was a Ukrainian painter.

Biography

Zvirinsky received his primary education at in Lavriv. In 1942, having read an advertisement in a newspaper about the recruitment of students to the German art and industrial school, which operated a Ukrainian graphics department, he went to Lviv. By that time, the future artist was not interested in painting. Due to insufficient education for admission, he takes exams externally for a seven-year school.
During this period, many artists in Lviv fled the hardships of the war from the east of Ukraine. V. G. Krichevsky, N. G. Butovich, V. A. Balyas, R. Yu. Selskyi taught here, Zvirinsky graduated from a painting course in 1946 and subsequently became friends with him.
Later he continued his studies at the department of monumental painting at the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts. In 1949, Zvirinsky was expelled for a year for saying that "one Cézanne apple is worth more than all the art of socialist realism taken together".
In 1953, he began teaching painting and composition at the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts.

Educational activities

Zvirinsky began to pass on his knowledge to the students of the Lvov Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, grouping around himself a small team, which would eventually be called the "Karlo Zvirinsky Academy." It was a kind of home art school. The listeners were the later famous painters A. A. Bokotey, Y. M. Lysyk, Y. N. Motyka and many others.
In addition, for a long time K. Zvirinsky headed the school of icon painting named after. St. Luke at the monastery of the Studite Order in Lavrov.

Art

Zvirynsky was an abstract artist, beginning with the study of appliqué. In the 1960s, the artist justified his departure into the abstract space of painting, appliqué, colored paper or wood relief on canvas as an escape from socialist realism, while at the same time not denying the achievements of the great realists.
In his works, he created a kind of parallel reality, an extremely integral world. This worldview is already distinguished by his compositions of the late 1950s, created using wood, tin, cardboard, and cord.
In the creative heritage of Zvirinsky, however, the predominant part of the works is sacred painting. He painted about 40 icons for the Assumption Church in Lviv, and created frescoes in several churches near Lviv.

Works

  • "Relief III"
  • "Composition-II"
  • triptych "Earth. Landscape after the battle. Epitaph"
  • "Otherworldly"
  • "Compositions X"

Literature

  • Pavelchuk I. The flows of abstract creativity of Karl Zvirinsky // Imaginative mysticism: writing of hours nourished by history, theory, ideology, methodology, artistic nationality, aesthetics, Ukrainian education. mis / National Collection of Artists of Ukraine. — Kiev, 2010. — No. 4 "2010/ 1 " 2011. — P. 74–77. — ISSN 0130-1799 Karlo Zvirinsky 1923-1997: Pogadi, statti, painting / Order. T. Pechenko, H. Zvirinska. — Lviv: Malti-M, 2002. Bubnovska Bozhena. Lviv school of painting: stages of molding // ArtUkraine. — No. 5. - 2008. - P.9-16. Olga Lagutenko, "The Great Hierarchy." Newspaper "Capital News" No. 5 February 12–18, 2002.