Ivan Marchuk

Infobox Artist
name = Ivan Marchuk

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birthname = Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk
birthdate = May 12, 1936
location = Moskalivka, USSR
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nationality = flagicon|Ukraine Ukrainian
field = Painting
training = Lviv Institute of Applied Art
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works = Portrait of V. Yushchenko (2003)cite web | title = Portrait of Victor Yushchenko. Ivan Marchuk is the autor| url =http://www.yuschenko.com.ua/eng/photo_print/?fid=606 | accessdate =2008-01-05]

Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk ( _uk. Іван Степанович Марчук) (born May 12 1936 in Moskalivka) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses.cite web | title = Top 100 living geniuses| url =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/28/geniustable128.xml | accessdate =2007-11-01] Marchuk invented a unique way of painting his pictures, which he calls "dabbing-on", thus creating an unusual effect of luminescence of his works.

Biography

Ivan Marchuk was born in a family of a weaver. He studied applied art in Lviv till 1965. Later he worked in Kyiv. In 1989 he left USSR and lived in the USA, Canada and Australia, where he became renown. After the September 11, 2001 attacks which he saw, Marchuk returned to Kyiv. Not having been valued in the Soviet Union, Marchuk was well accepted in the independent Ukraine obtaining a prestigious T. Shevchenko award in 1997. A museum of Ivan Marchuk is planned to be constructed in Kyiv.cite web | title = Victor Yushchenko founds Ivan Marchuk Museum, September 30, 2005| url =http://www.president.gov.ua/en/gallery/album/?paid=205 | accessdate =2007-11-01]

Notes

Literature

* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/4_99/marchuk.htm "Virtual Dreams of Ivan Marchuk". "Welcome to Ukraine", 4, 1999] .
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External links

* [http://www.artukraine.com/paintings/marchuk/marchuk_p2.htm Ivan Marchuk Exhibition] .