Mykola Dmitrukh


Mykola Dmitrukh is a Ukrainian graphic artist and master of decorative art. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1990 and the Association of Cartoonists of the All-Ukrainian Union of Caricaturists from 2007.

Biography

Mykola Dmitrukh was born on 20 June 1954, in Krasnopillia, now part of the Berezanka Hromada in the Mykolaiv Raion of Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1979, he graduated from the, where his teachers included S. Varkhola, V. Zhavoronkov, and V. Kurov. From then, he has been active at the Ternopil Art and Production Combine, and from 1993, he has been a teacher at the Ternopil Children's Art School No. 1.

Creativity

He began participating in all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions in 1979. His solo exhibitions have been held in Ternopil, Jarosław, Lubaczów, and Rzeszów.
He works in the fields of easel and book graphics, including illustrations, posters, ex-libris, caricatures, drawings, and cartoons. His works are held in the collections of the Ternopil Museum of Local Lore, art museums in Ternopil, Mykolaiv, and Taiwan, the Lviv Palace of Arts, the Museum in Lubaczów, the House of Satire and Humor in Gabrovo, the Museum of Caricature in Istanbul, the International Ex-Libris Center in Sint-Niklaas, the Piranha Satire Gallery, the Ex-Libris Association, and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
In his works, lines and forms are concise, and the compositions are conventional and associative. He masterfully combines the abstract with the real, while color and texture create a sense of grandeur and monumentality. In his graphic art, he maintains this concise style, but with a gentle and soft humor.
In 2004, M. Dmitrukh set a world record for drawing cartoons at the International Art Plein Air "Morka". His students include Pavlo Shachko.
Among his important works are:
  • The series of satirical drawings "Bez nazvy" ; "Vesna 33-ho roku", "Bilyi svit", "Nad richkoiu v chistim poli", "Pam'iat", "Sicha", "Ternopilskyi zamok", "Ternopil. Tserkva Rizdva Khrystovoho", "Seredyna lita", "Melodiia stepu", "Pryborkanyi step", "Skifiia" ;
  • The series: "Lehendy Ternopilshchyny", "Skifiia", "Kostely Polshchi".
  • Book design for "Krapelyny" and "Krapelyny-2" by B. Bastiuk and B. Melnychuk.

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