The exhibition, launched in the halls of the Olena Kulchytska Art Memorial Museum, features works from the stock of Andrei Sheptytsky Lviv National Museum and from private collections. The exhibition is entitled “Oleksa Novakivsky. Sacred Art. Paintings, Drawings” and dedicated to the 145th birth anniversary of this famous artist and teacher.
Oleksa Novakivsky (March 14, 1872 – August 29, 1935) was born in Vinnytsia region (nowadays the village is called Obodivka). Initially he studied art in Odesa. Later he graduated from the Krakow Academy of Arts. He based his painting techniques on the principles of Impressionism. From 1913 he lived in Lviv, where he painted actively and began teaching; founded an art school, students of which went on to become prominent artists. It should be added that the school founded by Novakivsky in 1921 had subsequently acquired the status of the Art department at Lviv Polytechnic Institute; with the support of philanthropist Andrei Sheptytsky, it functioned until 1935.
The artist left a great legacy. In 1972, the Oleksa Novakivsky Art Memorial Museum was opened in Lviv.
The 145th-anniversary exhibition has more than thirty Novakivsky’s religious works on display; the Master had created them throughout his career, but the most attention he paid to the topic in its mature phase, symbolic and expressive. “These works convey the author’s acute subjective worldview expressed through his hyper-creative personality, and the ideas take shape on the synthesis of colors and lines,” say the organizers.
Novakivsky’s sacred paintings and graphics are open to public through May 7.
