Theme exhibition of works by Kirovograd painters-veterans dedicated to the
70th anniversary of the Victory over German fascist invaders (May 9). Exposition is made
up of the works from the museum collection of professional painters, members of the
National Union of artists of the USSR Volodymyr Fedorov (1929-1986), Mykola Bondarenko
(1914-1999) and Mykola Dobrolezha (1925-2008), painter of Kirovograd art and industrial
studios Yuriy Gorobchenko (1909-2001) and an amateur artist journalist Viktor Shulga
(1923-2000) and police colonel Ivan Tkachenko (1924-2009), who went through hearth of the
Great Patriotic War, after which they lived and created in Kirovograd region. Also the
exhibition presents original photo and documental materials – V.Fedorov’s letter to
his mother to just liberated Kirovograd, front notebook with poems by M.Bondarenko and a
letter of his brother to the front, personal photographs of painters in military uniform
during the war and at work in studio in postwar time. |