Art event for the Artist's Day


    On October 6, 2022, on the eve of the Artist's Day (October 9), a creative meeting was held in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum with the Kropyvnytskyi artist Olha Krasnopolska - the head of the fine arts department of the Kropyvnytskyi Children's Art School and the curator of the art project "Art Studios - 2022" on the topic: "Portraits of contemporaries on the background of war".
    The cadets of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, which moved from Mariupol to Kropyvnytskyi, who visited the museum led by their teachers, learned about the history of the museum's art project and watched a presentation - a kind of photochronicle of the studios and video stories that were broadcast on the all-Ukrainian information telethon "Yedyni Novyny" . Getting acquainted with the exposition of the "INVINCIBLE" art exhibition opened for the Independence Day of Ukraine, which is the first within the art project, the student youth listened with interest to the story of the artist Olha Krasnopolska about the creative work of artists during February - August 2022, the result of which is more than 250 portraits made by in various graphic techniques that reproduce the general portrait of modern Ukrainians who are waging a heroic struggle for the territorial integrity of our state.
Particular attention was drawn to portrait images of university representatives - teachers of police majors Halyna Izotova and Viktor Kovalenko and cadets Neonila Derbal and Kateryna Voronik, who in July of this year also became participants in the art project "Art Studios - 2022" on the theme: "Portraits of contemporaries against the background of war ” and posed for artists as nature.
    University cadets, including Neonila Derbal, wrote about their impressions of the museum visit in the museum book of reviews: "From the staff of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs. We thank you for such a warm welcome. Glad to visit again. Sincerely, Neonil Derbal" and "From the DonDUVS team. It was very nice to see portraits of familiar cadets and teachers. Thank you for the warm welcome. Sincerely, Nina Dihtyarenko."
    And the art event ended with a traditional photo session near the amazing museum building.