Kyiv art party of the 70s

When it comes to a well-known person in the artistic circle, it is not easy to build a canvas to cover all the components of her creative biography. Congratulating Oleksandr Milovzorov on the opening of the next personal exhibition "Kyiv Art Party of the 70's", I recalled the significant events that revealed the difficult period of the 70's in Ukrainian society. Independence has not yet been proclaimed, but its origins have boiled in the hearts and minds of progressive youth. In different formats there were creative centers in which bright personalities were in the lead, among which there was Alexander Milovzorov.

At that time he was already a specialist in the field of fine arts, successfully graduated from the Kyiv State School of Applied Arts, then the prestigious Leningrad School named after V. Mukhina. Milovzorov's creative gift unfolded in several areas of painting, graphics, monumental and decorative arts, ceramics. But last but not least, he was the organizer of numerous original creative initiatives, plein airs, exhibitions. Creative youth gathered around him, who sought to bring a new wave to the capital's cultural and artistic life. The social climate in Ukraine was not simple, the flourishing of the command-administrative direction, the political involvement of the "Brezhnev times". But at the same time there is a powerful wave of disobedience of creative youth. Art is developing in two directions - under the control of the official government, and informal, which came out of the underground.

And so 80 drawings in the halls of the prestigious Museum of the History of Kyiv are presented, just revealing this unsurpassed passion of the progressive which covered the 70s. Before us is a series of portraits, genre motifs created by light strokes, in which the professional style of the artist is felt. The drawings successfully reveal the characteristic features of the whiteness of acquaintances who came under the visual attention of Alexander Petrovich. Before us are internally free intellectuals who have already become famous personalities of the cultural and artistic elite of the capital of Ukraine.

Considering the exhibition involuntarily there are memories of those times and there is a state of kinship with the past is not a simple era. Art broke the shackles of a closed political state, filled society with social significance and faith in a bright future. Inflammatory music was mentioned, songs that united people performed by Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Nazariy Yaremchuk, V. Zynkevych, Yuriy Rybchynsky, the Kobza ensemble…
We have before us touching candid images of artists who became classics of Ukrainian art, entered the history of the Ukrainian people: Anatoly Lymarev, Alice Zaboy, Vladimir Pryadko, Fyodor Tetyanych (Fripulia), Natalka Deregus, Maryana Savelyeva, Agnesa Belyaeva, Volodymyr Yevtuta , Viktor Hryhorov, Valentyn Zadorozhny, Ivan Litovchenko, Anatoliy Haydamaka, Petro Pochorny, Yuriy Sheinis, Yakov Levich, Mykola Storozhenko… Terenozhkina, designer Vitaly Solodov. All the presented sketches were donated to the Museum and are waiting for the continuation of their history in a separate art edition.
 
In general, the works of Oleksandr Petrovich Milovzorov are a separate page in the history of the cultural and artistic treasury of the Ukrainian people. It is not for nothing that his works are stored in many museums, art galleries around the world, and personal exhibitions have taken place in Italy, France, Uzbekistan and Hungary. Significant monumental works adorn the metro stations "Olympic", "Taras Shevchenko", restaurant "Oaks", etc. Not to mention the art galleries created by Milovzorov Triptych and Gallery -36, witnesses of the national rise of the progressive creative youth of the capital.
"Alexander Milovzorov created a collective portrait of his generation of artists during his creative development, when most of the bright works that formed a certain artistic canon of the late twentieth century. were still ahead, "said journalist, art critic, curator of the exhibition Kateryna Lypa.
 
Valentyna Yefremova is an art critic, honored worker of culture of Ukraine

 

 



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