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The fifth international artistic plain-air is devoted to the maintenance of the architectural antiquities |
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The first international artistic plain-airs took place in Transcarpathia in the 1930s. Adalbert Erdeli and Yosyp Bokshay, the famous artists and the founders of the Transcarpathian school of painting, were its initiators and organizers. The Union of artists was organized at that time on the base of Mukachevo pedagogic school. Plain-air painting has become a usual practice for Transcarpathian artists.
Since 1992 ten international plain-airs of artists and sculptors have taken place in Transcarpathia and almost half of them were held in Mukachevo in the Palanok castle.
The fifth international artistic plain-air coincides with the celebration of the 1115th anniversary of the town of Mukachevo. An interesting history of a small town on Latorytsia river has always been and remains an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Quite a number of artists were born here and Mihaly Munkacsi has a world-wide fame. Artists from many countries make paintings of historical and architectural antiquities of Mukachevo and the region. The history of plain-airs has shown that they favour the continuity of traditions between the generations of artists and also form new tendencies.
The plain-air has gathered 30 artists and art historians from Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, China. Among them: Ivan Hapiak, Chair of academic drawing, Lviv Academy of Arts; Mykhailo Huida, Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine; Mykola Ptykhodko, head of the Mykolaiv city organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine; artists Tadeusz Marszalek, Timur Karim (Poland), Jozef Kaminski (Slovakia), Nagy Elod (Hungary). Ukraine was presented by Ruslan Murmanov, Serhiy Ruban (Kharkiv), Ostap Patyk (Lviv), Mykhailo Koliorov (Dnipropetrovsk), Serhiy Zhytel (Luhansk), Bohdan Brianskiy, Mykhilo Krasoka (Ivano-Frankivsk). And also local artists, well-known painters Vasyl Svaliavchyk, Borys Kuzma, Zoltan Michka. Young artists also came here with their easels. The participants of the plain-air state, that they have a unique possibility to rub shoulders with one another and to share the experiences.
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Mykhailo Huida, a Taras Shevchenko prize laureate, Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, professor. — It’s my first time in Transcarpathia and I am impressed! You know, there are many art schools in Ukraine. It is probably the only country in Europe, which has so many schools. This fact is especially significant today when almost all schools in Europe are lost. I visited all European academies in particular in Austria, Italy, Paris… It's enough to make anybody cry, because these schools are partially or entirely lost. And we, Ukrainians, must be proud that we have Odessa school, Kyiv school, school of Central Ukraine and, of course, Transcarpathian school of painting. Such phenomenon is not to be found anywhere in the world. This land with its culture is really the centre of Europe. Europe is just waiting for an impulse from us as it was waiting hundred years ago. Because this is the place where the avant-garde movement was born. It was on this land. It is a Holy land. |
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Nagy Elod, artist, Hungary — I would like to know much more about the Transcarpathian school of painting, it is a sort of legend in the artistic circles of Europe. Everyone heard about the paintings of Bokshay and Erdeli. It’s a kind of myth, tale, legend! So I have come to get closer acquainted with Transcarpathia, to learn more about the phenomenon of Transcarpathian school of painting. It is very pleasant that I have this possibility. |
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Tadeusz Marszalek, painter, Poland — I have been at some exhibitions of painting of Transcarpathian school painters. They represented the art of the outstanding Ukrainian painters, real coryphaei of the Ukrainian pictorial art. I am fond of paintings of Bokshay, Kotska, Manaylo and Sholtes. I am also greatly impressed by the tradition of the impressionistic plain-air painting, which originates from European artistic schools. It was also started by the masters of the Transcarpathian school of painting. |
