Easter art event


    On April 7 and 10, 2023, the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum exhibited a mobile exhibition of posters "Icon-painting workshop of Yakov Pauchenko" in the Tourist Information Center of the city of Kropyvnytskyi as part of artistic events to Easter (April 16), organized by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Kropyvnytskyi City advice
    Participants of creative master classes on making traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs under the guidance of the director of the O.O.Osmerkin art school, Hanna Timofienko, and on painting ginger-honey gingerbread cookies, which she baked herself and was taught to paint by Olena Petrychuk, an employee of the Kropyvnytskyi Rehabilitation Center for Children with Disabilities, had the opportunity not only to master the art of making Easter goodies, but also to get acquainted with an interesting thematic exhibition.
    The exposition of the exhibition became a landmark event, because the work of the talented architect Yakov Vasyliovych Pauchenko (1866-1914), one of the creators of the architectural face of the historical center of modern Kropyvnytskyi, was closely connected with sacred art. According to his projects, many temples were built, including Holy Ascension Cathedral in the city of Bobrynetz, Kirovohrad region, which is a monument of architecture and urban planning of national importance. Yakiv Pauchenko successfully managed the iconostasis, artistic icon painting and gilding workshop inherited from his father Vasyl Semenovych. The exposition of the mobile exhibition consists of sixteen posters depicting unique photographs, documents, sketches and projects that tell about the activities of Yakov Pauchenko's icon-painting workshop, as well as reproductions of icons from the museum's collection of sacred art, one of which is "The Virgin and Child" 19th century, according to the assumption, it was made in this workshop.