Hryhoriy Shyshko – Artistic Glory of Kryvyi Rih
The industrial landscape of Kryvyi Rih in the works of Hryhoriy Shyshko Hryhoriy Shyshko – Artistic Glory of Kryvyi Rih – Book of 2019 More »
The Modernist Impressionism of Grygory Shyshko
Jackie Wullschlager is chief art critic at the Financial Times Preview of the exhibition United Nations Office – Geneva, Palais des Nations 1st – 19th October 2007 The Chambers Gallery, 23 Long Lane, London EC1 29th November 2007 – 5th January 2008 The joke “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past” applies acutely to the current reassessment of art from the former Soviet Union. The Ukrainian painter Grigory Shyshko (1923-1994) spanned the lifetime of the USSR , and his work is a vibrant example of how a highly individual artist in those times negotiated a path to create a distinctive language all his own. Formed both within and against the constraints of late-Socialist Realism, and taking from Russian, Ukrainian and international art history its broad outlines,... More »
Shyshko Grygoriy
/1923-1994/ Born 15.04.1923 Kostromka in the village of Apostolovo district of Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine. On graduation from Odessa Art College in 1953 Grygoriy Shyshko joined the Kryvyi Rih Union of Artists with whom he first exhibited locally and regionally in 1954 when he also started work at the Kryvyi Rih branch of Dnipropetrovsk Art Fund where he eventually became head of its Creative Section. Also teaching at the Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical Institute, Shyshko was arguably its most important artist. The painter went on to become a member of the USSR Union of Artists in 1964. He was an officially approved and recognised artist of the Soviet Union and rose to the top of his profession with his painterly rendering of the “beauty of work in the service of the State.” There is a... More »
