“ART IS LONG AND LIFE IS SHORT”
The aims of the Project are: 1. To collect information about Ukrainian and Russian artists. 2. To find out the cultural interaction of Ukrainian and Russian painters. 3. To develop pupils' imagination, creative abilities, communicative skills through describing pictures. 4. To encourage pupils' understanding beauty and national value of Ukrainian painting.
“ART IS LONG AND LIFE IS SHORT” The aims of the Project are: 1. To collect information about Ukrainian and Russian artists. 2. To find out the cultural inter -action of Ukrainian and Russian painters. 3. To develop pupils’ imagination, creative abilities, communicative skills through describing pictures. 4. To encourage pupils’ under -standing beauty and national value of Ukrainian painting. The outline of the Project: 1. The role of great Russian artist Karl Briullov in Taras Shev -chenko’s creative life. 2.The influence of Ukrainian history on Illia Repin’s creations. 3. The cultural connection of Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky with Ukraine. 4. A valuable heritage of Ukrainian artist Kateryna Bilokur.
Shevchenko was a serf. A prominent Russian artist Briullov, Shevchenko’s teacher, painted a portrait of a famous Russian poet Vasiliy Zhukovsky. The portrait was bought by Tsarivna because V. Zhukovsky was the teacher of her children. She paid 2.500 rubles for the portrait. This sum of money was used to buy Shevchenko out of serfdom.
The influence of Ukrainian history on Illia Repin’s creations 1844*1930 Repin was born in Ukraine. The artist was a blood brother to Cossacks because he was interested in their heroic deeds. He came to Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Odesa to know more about Cossacks. As a result of his research Repin created his masterpiece “Zaporizhzhian Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan”
The cultural connection of Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky with Ukraine (1817-1900) I.Aivazovsky is a great marine (seascape) painter. He painted calm radiant sea and shaped its magnificence in storm. This canvas is a hymn to human courage against Natural force and ode to the beauty of Nature. The artist reflected the sea in motion, represented the rolling waves and their transparency. His sea is magnificent and breathing.
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