Stepan Nechai
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| Stepan Nechai | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 November 1941 Zboriv, Ukraine |
| 💀Died | 19 May 2003 Ternopil, Ukraine19 May 2003 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Ukrainian |
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Stepan Nechai (Ukrainian: Степан Омелянович Нечай; 11 November 1941 – 19 May 2003) was a Ukrainian painter, of the classical school of realism.
Honored Artist of Ukraine. Stepan Nechai belongs to the generation of artists who in the late 1960s and 1970s rushed like a fresh whirlwind into Ukrainian art. The works of S. Nechai fascinate viewers and connoisseurs of realism with their colorfulness, sincerity, fascination with the beauty of their native land, the scale of large-format works, the perfection of compositions and up to this day reveal to the viewer a talented Ukrainian painter through the perspective of years. With his talent and hard work Stepan Nechai imprinted his name in the history of art, culture of his native land – Ternopil region, Ukraine and the world.
The name of the painter Stepan O. Nechai is listed in the "Russian and Soviet artists from 1900 to 1980"; catalog. London, 1989.
Biography[edit]
The future artist was born on November 11, 1941 in a small town of Zboriv, Ternopil region, District of Galicia, Western Ukraine.
After finishing middle school in 1958 he entered Kostandi Art School in the city of Odessa (Ukraine) – later renamed to Grekov Odessa Art School, from which he graduated in 1963.
In 1972 he graduated from the Faculty of Painting (Department of Painting and Composition) at the Kyiv Art Institute,[1] today the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAOMA).
His teachers were prominent artists of the realistic school of painting, such as: Anatoly Plamenytskyi, Volodymyr Kostetskyi, Mykhaylo Khmelko, Viktor Shatalin. Nechai was awarded a special Vasyl Surikov scholarship for academic excellence and also did an internship in Germany.
Personal life[edit]
In 1972 he started his career in Ternopil,[2] in the art and production workshop of the Art Fund of Ukraine. Subsequently married, wife Svitlana Arkadievna Soroka, further Svitlana Nechai-Soroka. Children: Kira Nechai, Vladislav Nechai.
Creativity[edit]
He worked in various genres of thematic painting, landscape, portrait, still life, painting. He was a brilliant master of easel painting of the school of realism.
Subsequently, Stepan Nechai mastered the complex genre of diorama (wide-format thematic, large-plan picture). He regularly participated in all-Union, Ukrainian, international exhibitions and plenaries, which took place in Moscow, Penza, Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopil, Sliven, Paris, Lisbon, etc.
In 1976 Stepan Nechai joined the National Union of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR (later of Ukraine).
In 2000 he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of Ukraine.
After his death on May 19, 2003, he left a significant artistic heritage.
Personal exhibitions of Stepan Nechai were organized in Ukraine in 1980, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2012, and recently on November 11,2021 by the Ternopil Regional Art Museum.
Some works[edit]
- "Red Twelve" 1974;
- "Spring on Podillya" 1974;
- "Letters to the Living" 1975;
- "Talking about Earth" 1977;
- "I. Briksa" 1977;
- "Along 'Soyuz' gas pipeline" 1978;
- "Tundra Champion" 1979;
- "Birch Shadows" 1979;
- "First Harvest" 1980;
- "Winner of the Socialist Competition" 1981;
- "Roses" 1981;
- "Still Life with Roses" 1983;
- "Westward" 1984;
- "Soldiers' Wives" 1985;
- "S. Khomsky" 1985;
- "A. Karpenko" 1986;
- "Warm Morning" 1986–1987;
- "Dialogue" 1988;
- "Heavy Spikelets" 1989;
- "Church in Pluhiv" 1992;
- "S. Krushelnytska" 1997;
“Near Berestechko" 1998;
- "The Last Snow" 1999;
- "Danylo Nechai";
- "Sunny Day";
- "Gladioli
- others
Dioramas
- "Burning the Village" 1986–87, Molotkiv Tragedy Museum, Molotkiv village, Lanovetsky district, Ternopil region;
- "Zboriv Battle of 1649" 1993–1995, Zboriv Battle Museum, Zboriv (in collaboration with Svitlana A. Nechai-Soroka and Arkady Soroka).[3]
Numerous works are in regional heritage and art museums of Ternopil,[4] Pochaiv, Zalishchyky, Kremenets, Vinnytsia and in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Austria, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Israel, Canada, USA.
References[edit]
- ↑ Stepan Nechai. Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum.
- ↑ Stepan Nechai. In: Довідник членів Національної спілки художників України. Kyiv. 2003, p. 428.
- ↑ A diorama of the Battle of Zboriv by Stepan Nechai.
- ↑ Ternopil Regional Art Museum.
Literature[edit]
- Дуда І. М. Нечай Степан Омелянович. In: Тернопільський енциклопедичний словник. Ternopil, 2005. Vol. 2, p. 625;
- Дуда І. М. Нечай Степан Омелянович. In: Енциклопедія сучасної України. Kyiv, 2001–2020. ISBN 944-02-3354-X Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: Invalid ISBN. Search this book on
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