Manifested World of Fedir Nedoshovenko, Artist and Teacher

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine and analyse the creative heritage of Fedir Nedoshovenko, the painter and teacher, whose works represent the Kyiv school of Ukrainian painting of the second half of the 20th century. The artist’s activity, his artistic practice – both in painting, teaching – is inextricably linked with a deep understanding of the laws of fine art in the context of the European artistic culture. The methodology of the article is formed by a set of methods such as art history and structural axiological methods. The methods of empirical research of works of art are used: observation, comparison, and experiment. Abstraction, analysis and synthesis are applied at the empirical and theoretical levels of research. Historical method and systematic approach are used as methods of theoretical generalisation. Scientific novelty consists in understanding the artist’s creativity, his artistic and pedagogical activity, which is determined by the principles of artistic genres. For the first time, achievements in the genre of portrait, still life, easel painting, specific features, means and methods of artistic expression of each genre in the artist's work are analysed. Conclusions. The activity of Fedir Nedoshovenko was in the pre-war and post-war period within the boundaries of the Kyiv State Art Institute, on the territory of which the artist lived with his family and taught. The content of the artist's work in a broad sense was a man, diverse nature, human life. The practice of the history of world art confirms that the true reflection of reality, announced by realistic aesthetics, is an important objective law of realistic art, which the artist taught and studied.

Key words: memories, ancestry, origins, school, war, pedagogy, easel painting, artistic and stylistic features, composition, painting, artistic image, colour, colouring.