Mykola Pymonenko

Self portrait

Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko (Ukrainian: Микола Корнилович Пимоненко), sometimes spelled Pimonenko (Russian: Николай Корнилович Пимоненко, Nikolay Kornilovich Pimonenko ) (March 9, 1862, Kiev – March 26, 1912, Kiev) was a 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.

Pymonenko created illustrations for several of Taras Shevchenko's poems. In total, he produced over 700 genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits. Pymonenko also took part in the painting of the murals in Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kiev.^[1]

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  Mykola Pymonenko. Fortune-Telling on Christmastide. 1888. Oil on canvas. 111 × 76.5 cm. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

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  Harvester, Oil on canvas. 137 x 75 cm. 1889, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev

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  A fabric trading woman. 1901. Oil on canvas. Private collection.

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  Easter morning prayer in Little Russia

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  Victim of Fanaticism

References

1. ^ Pymonenko, Mykola at Encyclopedia of Ukraine

Sources

• 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)

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Name	Pimonenko, Nikolay
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Date of birth	March 9, 1862
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Date of death	March 26, 1912
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