1960
Plentanism
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Plentanism
Plentanism is an art movement that appeared in the 1960s in Ukraine, both the author’s technique of I. Marchuk and the phenomenon of the synthesis of various artistic movements.
The term is associated with the exhibition “The Voice of My Soul” of Ivan Marchuk, and it was he who gave the name to the movement. Here we see “plents” for the first time in the paintings.
Media: oil, canvas, cardboard, tempera, paper, pencil, etc. Genres: subject-themed, symbolic, landscape, portrait, nude, still life.
Key ideas:
– The elements of surrealism, symbolism, analytical art, abstractionism and graphic techniques are traced in plentanism.
– The creation of one’s free world is the main principle of Plentanism.
– The main features of the movement are ribbons, strokes, zigzags and threads that resemble the weave of the web that are more complex than in nature and voluminous. Characteristic ribbons resemble intentionally convolutedly twisted wires, clusters of coral, and sometimes neatly cut rags of cloth, washed and colourless aprons. “Plents” are like an endoskeleton, breaking through the shell of an object, but not taking life, which is just assimilation. All this gives rise to a special philosophical style with inclusions of symbolism.
– Despite the specificity of the style, the paintings are perceived easily, make you look at them carefully. Surprisingly, even the simplest landscapes are characterized by semantic overfill.
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A Ukrainian painter, innovator, as well as a master of ceramics and People's Artist of Ukraine, a winner of the main creative award of the country - the National Shevchenko Prize. He was included in the rating of the British newspaper «The Daily Telegraph» as one of 100 geniuses of modernity, one of the members of the Golden Guild, where the Roman International Academy of Modern Art included only 51 artists of the world, an honorary member of the scientific council of this academy. The master is an honorary citizen of the cities of Ternopil (the artist’s birthplace) and Kiev, where he currently lives and works.He first used his innovative technique "Pliontanism" (from the Ukrainian dialect word "weave") in the landscape genre in 1972. Subsequently, the technique acquired the status of the author’s creative method and, in combination with the original system of the artist’s worldview, made an inimitable, immediately distinguishable style of the artist, who is called a living genius throughout the world.The themes of the most titled of Ukrainian artists living in the beginning of the 21st century are very diverse, ranging from folklore and biblical myths to the most modern ideas. No less striking is the range of stylistics and genres - from hyperrealism of portraits and landscapes to completely abstract canvases.Ivan Marchuk has already created more than 5,000 paintings, now divided into 11 main cycles. The artist who lived one year in Australia and Canada and 11 years in America held more than 120 personal exhibitions all over the world and participated in numerous collective exhibitions. About two thousand works of Marchuk are in the collections of museums and private galleries of five continents of the world.
1936