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In the Meadows

Zenovii Flinta

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ID: Ж-7059
Author: Zenovii Flinta
Name: In the Meadows
Date of creation: 1965
Country: the Ukrainian SSR
Culture: Contemporary times
Technique: tempera painting
Material: cardboard tempera
Dimensions: 92.5 x 70 cm (height x width)

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Type: painting
Genre: landscape
Plot: Landscape

Information about author

Author: Zenovii Flinta
Artist's lifetime: 1935–1988
Country: Poland, the Ukrainian SSR
Biography: Zenovii Flinta (1 September 1935, Toky village – 2 April 1988, Lviv) was a Ukrainian ceramicist, painter, and graphic artist. Member of the Ukrainian Union of Artists, Honoured Artist of the UkrSSR. He was born in the village of Toky, Ternopil region. After graduating from a seven-year school, he entered the Ivan Trush Lviv School of Applied Arts, Department of Decorative Painting. He graduated in 1959. In 1959–1963, he studied at the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, Department of Art Ceramics. From 1963, he taught at the painting department of the Ivan Trush Lviv School of Applied Arts. From 1965 to 1975, he worked as a teacher of ceramics at the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1967, he interned at the Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1968, at the Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw Academies of Fine Arts. From 1970, he worked at the Lviv Ceramics and Sculpture Factory. In 1971, he headed the decorative and applied arts section of the Lviv branch of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. Since 1960, he has participated in Republican exhibitions and, since 1968, in all Union exhibitions. He participated in the International Biennial of Ceramics in Faenza (Italy, 1973) and Vallauris (France, 1974). In 1982–1983, there was a successful group exhibition of Zenovii Flinta, Oleh Minko, and Liubomyr Medvid in Lviv, Kyiv, and Vilnius. In 1985, a solo exhibition of Z. Flinta's works was held in Lviv, including paintings, graphics, and ceramics. Conceptually and plastically, many of Z. Flinta's paintings are inspired by the works of P. Cézanne, P. Picasso, G. Braque, O. Archipenko, F. Léger, H. Matisse, and the Ukrainian avant-garde of the 1910s and 1930s. The movement of the sixties, Roman Selskyi and Karlo Zvirynskyi, had a significant influence on his creative search. Many of Z. Flinta's paintings are characterised by allegorism and the revelation of deep philosophical meanings through visible objects, forms, and colour combinations. In painting, the artist preferred pastels and tempera. In ceramics, he concentrated on the technique of painting to achieve pictorial and graphic effects. The artist's early works are characterised by the use of ornamental motifs from the folk art of the Carpathians. The colour palette is based on a combination of brown, green, and ochre with the addition of black and white.

Object description

Full of philosophical reflections, allegories and symbols, Z. Flinta's landscape works are represented by a series of artistic solutions, including the associative reproduction of nature in a precious plastic drama of lines and planes of colour. Thus, in the landscape "In the Meadows" (1965), he created a pantheistic image of nature as a centre of harmony, wisdom, and eternal mystery. A combination of saturated emeralds, browns, and pale yellows creates a ghostly, moonlit image of the meadows. The tones of folklore and fairy tales are echoed in the whimsical lace of curved planes and verticals of trees. With its mystery and mysticism, the landscape resonates with the works by K. Zvirynskyi from the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting the Creator's will in nature.

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