On
May 14, 2016 a traditional cultural and art event “A visit to the museum”
within the framework of events of Kirovohrad town museums “My boundless Ukraine!” took
place in O.O.Osmekin Art-Memorial Museum. The event was dedicated to International Museum
Day (May 18) and XII International campaign “The night of the museums”.
This year educational event was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of
Elisavethgradarchitect Ya.Pauchenko. A theme exhibition “Gentle world, peaceful land…”
from the series “Secrets of the museum collection”. Exposition of the exhibition was
made up of the art works of well-known Kirovohradartists- laureates of Regional Award in
the sphere of architecture, heraldry and veksilology and decorative and applied art named
after YakivPauchenko 2004—2015 in nomination “decorative and applied art” –
Merited Artist of Ukraine NeliaFirsova, Merited Artist of folk art of Ukraine
OlexandraPrenko, members of the National Union of artists of UkraineMariiaTserna,
YuriiHoncharenko, OlhaKolomiets, Mykola, Serhii and OlexandraFirsovth and member of the
National Union of folk artists of Ukraine ValentynaDobrovolska. The works are brightly
reflect talent of every artist and are gems of the museum collection of modern Ukrainian
art works.
One more interesting event was a lecture video presentation “Features of
architectural and building practice in Elisabethrad in the end of XIX – beginning of XX
centuries. During the lecture the visitors had an opportunity to learn a lot of
interesting facts about the construction of the historic centre of our town. The leading
researcher of the museum, a well-known art historian and Merited Artist of Ukraine
A.Nadezhdin told about stylistic peculiarities of architecture of the steppe town and
about the work of architects Ya.Pauchenko, O.Lyshnevskii, A.Dostoevskii and many others
who created a unique architectural ensemble that became an appearance of the modern town.
That day numerous visitors of the museum had an opportunity to view not only
the memorial exposition and theme exhibitions of the museum, but also to observe creative
process of young artists of “Art workshop”, which became the main event. “Art
workshop” is a joint art project of the museum and the Fine Art Department of Kirovograd
children’s school of art. The theme of this year workshop was “Mystery of things of
Ya.Pauchenko’s house”. Young artists together with their teachers H.Yarova-Vintenko,
L.Yakovleva and head of the Department - a well-knownKirovohrad artist, member of the
National Union of Artists of Ukraine Yu.Vintenkohad been working in the memorial hall of
the museum for nearly 4 hours. They worked on the reproduction of different items from the
architect’s house, which are shown in the exposition. These antique memorial things were
in an unusual role of “characters” of still life compositions. Pupils together with
their teachers created modern art images using gouache and watercolours. They gave a new
life to old items. The works were presented at the express-exhibition.
On May 18, in International Museum Day the stuff of Kirovohrad music school
named after H.Neuhaus presented a musical fest to the museum staff and all worshipers of
the museum work. Works of the word-known composers of XVI-XX centuries were performed by
the pupils of the last year studies and their teachers. They created a unique atmosphere
of unity of music and fine art. |