ТВОРИ ПЕТРА ХОЛОДНОГО-СТАРШОГО З ПРИВАТНИХ КОЛЕКЦІЙ. НОВІ ШТРИХИ ДО ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ МИСТЕЦЬКОЇ СПАДЩИНИ

Abstract

This publication analyses the artwork by Petro Kholodny Sr., the distinguished artist of the first third of the XX century, from private collections, that gives an opportunity to better comprise and study the artist's searches in different periods of his creative work in the visual-stylistic and genre-thematic spheres. The Moscow collection of easel paintings by the Kholodny family is analysed, showing a range of artistic interests up to 1917. Landscapes and sketches from this collection testify his fascination with plein-airism and, at the same time, with heritage of impressionism. Artist’s portraits and landscapes from various private collections outside and within Ukraine and little-known works of sacral painting of the Lviv period are also analysed: sketches of icons; the “Blahovishchennia” (Annunciation) icon reflecting the national line of modernist style in Ukraine. The mentioned images greatly expand the interpretation of Kholodny Sr’s searches in the synthesis of modern art and Ukrainian-Byzantine tradition and his coloristic feeling.