Michael Antonyuk

Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk was born on 12 March 1935 in Tulychiv, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tulychiv,+Volyns'ka+oblast,+Ukraine,+44850/@51.002614,24.6425914,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47244f2babae8955:0x37a03389e88a3f7d!8m2!3d51.00302!4d24.6621563|title=Google Maps|website=Google Maps|access-date=2016-05-26}} He was the oldest child of simple villagers Marusya Antonyuk and Yakov Karpovich Antonyuk.{{Cite web|url=http://www.volart.com.ua/art/antonjuk/img/llogo3.jpg|title=Антонюк Михайло|last=Marchuk|first=Volodymyr|website=Volart|access-date=25 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215010059/http://www.volart.com.ua/art/antonjuk/img/llogo3.jpg|archive-date=15 February 2016|url-status=dead}} A talented composer who played several instruments, his father instilled in Michael an artistic appreciation and the love of native nature. He developed an attentive awareness to his surroundings, embracing vivid Ukrainian culture. Michael Antonyuk saw vibrant colors, and his paintings would later illuminate all the hues of the rainbow. The significance of Antonyuk's color harmonic expression derived from traditional Ukrainian folklore.

At the age of 6, Michael Antonyuk fled with his three little sisters and mother into the forest to escape the burning of his village Tulychiv. During World War II, he began to draw with vine charcoal, made from burned sticks due to the scarcity of pencils.Ольховський І. Кривава Волинь. — Київ, 2011. — Кн. 2. — С. 319

***add artwork "burnt village" and "cry".{{Cite web|url=http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/ukraine/tulchin.html|title=TULCHIN (TUL'CHYN, TULTCHIN TULCIN, TULCZYN, TULCIÎN, TULTSCHIN, TULTSCHYN, TOULTCHYN, TUŁČYN) Vinnitskaya oblast, Ukraine - International Jewish Cemetery Project|website=www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org|access-date=2016-05-26}} Citation needed of childhood reflection

After high school, Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk joined the Monumental Painting Department at The Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine (former Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Art).{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CA%5CR%5CArteducation.htm|title=Art History|last=Hordynsky|first=Sviatoslav|last2=Pavlovsky|first2=Vadym|date=1984|website=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine|publisher=Encyclopedia of Ukraine|access-date=25 May 2016|edition=Vol 1}} He trained under world renowned artists such as Roman Yulianovich Selsky (1903 - 1990),{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CE%5CSelskyRoman.htm|title=Selsky, Roman|last=Zelska-Darewych|first=Daria|date=1993|website=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine|publisher=Encyclopedia of Ukraine|access-date=25 May 2016|edition=Vol. 4}} Ukrainian and Soviet painter, educator, professor, and Honorary People's Artist of Ukraine (1989).{{Cite web|url=http://gazeta.zn.ua/CULTURE/roman_i_margit_selskie_hudozhniki_lvovskoy_slavy.html|title=РОМАН И МАРГИТ СЕЛЬСКИЕ: ХУДОЖНИКИ ЛЬВОВСКОЙ СЛАВЫ|website=Зеркало недели {{!}} Дзеркало тижня {{!}} Mirror Weekly|access-date=2016-05-26}} Selskiy was a beloved Professor of Antonyuk, and colleagues.{{Cite web|url=http://postup.brama.com/usual.php?what=10939|title=Роман та Маргіт Сельські|last=ГАРТЕН|first=Марта|last2=КОСМОЛІНСЬКА|first2=Наталка|date=14 June 2003|website=Brama|publisher=досье|access-date=25 May 2016}} Roman Selsky instilled comprehensive artistic knowledge in his students, teaching the technical disciplines of the great masters: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.{{Cite web|url=http://hutsul.museum/museum/articles/roman-selskyj/|title=Галицький художник Роман Сельський {{!}} Національний музей народного мистецтва Гуцульщини та Покуття {{!}} Коломия Івано-Франківська область Україна|website=hutsul.museum|access-date=2016-05-26}} Selsky is known for teaching Color theory, revealing harmony in picturesque canvases of Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, and Eugène Delacroix. Learning the fundamental methodology of the great European Colorists laid the foundation for Antonyuk's creative principles.

• T.G. Shevchenko. 120x100, 1961, plywood, encaustic accretion technique.
• "Katerina", 120x100, 1961, oil on canvas. This graduation work was made in collaboration with Vasiliy Tovtin{{Cite web|url=http://www.russiadb.com/TOVTIN-Vasily-Ivanovich_10.01.1935-/1131/|title=TOVTIN Vasily Ivanovich 10.01.1935- {{!}} ТОВТИН Василий Иванович {{!}} TOVTIN Vasily Ivanovitch {{!}} TOVTIN Vasily Ivanovickh :: The Russia Database, encyclopedia of Russian artists|last=Vesthelm|website=www.russiadb.com|access-date=2016-05-26}}.

Michael Antonyuk graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts in 1961 with government clearance and credentials. He was given various monumental art projects in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. In addition, Khrushchev's Thaw created an allure for exploration and development of the vast wild Tselina steppes and virgin land. The greatest migration in Soviet history attracted research teams, scientists, and graduates from Moscow, Leningrad, and Ukraine. The Virgin Lands Campaign led to the great migration of the early 1960s,{{Cite web|url=http://www.newtowninstitute.org/newtowndata/newtown.php?newtownId=233|title=INTI - International New Town Institute|website=www.newtowninstitute.org|access-date=2016-06-04}} representing the 15 different republics of the Soviet Union, including diverse nationalities.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

In 1961, in the town of Akmolinsk, Kazakhstan, young intellectuals from the institutes of Moscow, Leningrad, and Ukraine began to arrive by train. Michael Antonyuk settled among the spacious land in Kazakh Steppe (Republic of Kazakhstan, former Soviet Union). Michael fell in love with the fertile land full of wild tulips and clover steppes. In 1962, he decided to stay and work, committing himself to this new world.

Antonyuk began a series of paintings depicting the traditional and nomadic lifestyle, featuring "Holiday Yurt", "Aqsaqal", "Mother", "Festival at Lake Tengiz", and "Still Life With Fish".

"Michael Antonyuk arrived in Tselinograd in 1961, the same year the Kazakh space exploration launched the first manned spacecraft. Among the two main themes - virgin and space - were inextricably merged into the artist's work: "Tselina lives", "Resort Borovoe", "Tselinnaya LEP", "Mangyshlak", "Tselinny bread", "Tselinnoe Priishimya", "Earth and Space", " The man and the Earth "," Intercosmos" and others. One of the works called "Celina over the planet." For the artist, it is not just a metaphor: expanses of virgin land and space open spaces are equally close to his worldview. I asked his son: "Native land for Michael Antonyuk - is it Ukraine or Kazakhstan?". - "It seems to me, more than all the same Kazakhstan", - said Yaroslav. The artist studied the national culture of Kazakhstan and loved the land. Without love and deep understanding, one can not create works that his colleague Ivan Svitich said, "Antoniuk painted his masterpieces with a different colorful richness. The joy of color, clarity of rhythm, the solemnity of the composition, woven from the Kazakh ornament, spikes, cars, rockets, yurts, national costumes." ("Yurt", "Dastarkhan," "The holiday," "The People's mistress from Aji village"). -Natalya Kurpyakova, Kazakhskaya Pravda

Growth and construction of the city prompted development in Akmola (former name of Astana) monumental decorative art.{{Citation|last=nomad 4x4|title=Целиноград, город которого нет.|date=2014-11-24|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xxvct5GwM|access-date=2016-06-17}} The transformation of Akmolinsk into Tselinograd was successful due to the commitment of project managers, city planners and construction administrators.{{Cite book|title=The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s|last=Kozlov|first=Denis|last2=Gilburd|first2=Eleonory|publisher=University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; Reprint edition (September 25, 2014)|year=2014|isbn=1442628642|location=Toronto|pages=481–485}} The creativity of Michael Antonyuk became of service to the aesthetic decorative land development of Tselinograd districts and neighboring towns.{{Citation|last=oldbazar.kz|title=Целиноград|date=2011-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxg64rdL3w|access-date=2016-06-04}} In 1963, Michael Antonyuk cofounded the Tselinograd regional branch of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan and served as the first chairman on the Board of the Union of artists of USSR.

• Finalist in the International Photography 7th Exhibition in Romania. "Old man from Uzbekistan", 100x200 cm black and white photo. (Awarded 2nd place) [wikicommons artwork & citation]
• Participation in the all Union exhibition in Moscow.
• "Still life with Cactus", 120x90, 1969, oil on canvas; + Fragments
• "Mother", 85x85, oil on canvas, 1969.

• Completed Relief with Mosaic "Print and Kosmos" on printing press & typography building (Бейбитшилик) in Tselinograd.{{Cite web|url=http://www.myshared.ru/slide/377650/|title=Презентация на тему: "Памятники истории и культуры местного значения г. Астаны.". Скачать бесплатно и без регистрации.|website=www.myshared.ru|access-date=2016-06-17}} 8-month project in collaboration with Vasily Ivanovich Tovtin. Commissioned from Kazakh government as an aesthetic monument to beautify the city.
• Exhibition of fine arts of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata.
• "Mangyshlak", 150x140, 1972, Tempera on canvas.
• "Recolection", 200x100, 1972 Tempera on canvas.
• Sabbatical leave to Morocco, France and Cuba.

• "Signs of the Zodiac", Palace of Wedding Ceremonies in the city of Tselinograd. Дворец бракосочетаний. Уже снесли.{{Cite web|url=http://yvision.kz/post/490496|title=Старинные здания Астаны|website=YourVision|access-date=2016-06-15}} Stained glass windows in the Palace of Ceremonies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.drive2.ru/b/760067/|title=Целиноград|website=www.drive2.ru|access-date=2016-06-15}} Completed in 1982, each module was manually made. Featuring imported glass from Neman Belarus with a thickness of 25–30 mm.{{Cite web|url=http://tehne.com/event/novosti/stanislav-medvedev-moy-sled-v-iskusstve-zhivopis-grafika-litoy-vitrazh-2015|title=Станислав Медведев. Мой след в искусстве. Живопись, графика, литой витраж. 2015|website=tehne.com|access-date=2016-07-08}} This series was framed on the surface texture of the building, which deflected sunlight to enhance the expressiveness. Technique: Fastened panes with mortar and metal armature. Demolished in 1990{{Cite web|url=http://yvision.kz/post/681311|title=Прогулка по старому Целинограду|website=YourVision|access-date=2016-06-15}}
• "Landscape and Still Life". Республиканская выставка, Almaty Kazakhstan

• "Flora of Kazakhstan" and "Industry", 4x6 meters, Collaborative work between Michael Antonyuk and Vasily Ivanovich Tovtin. Completed in 1984 in the hotel "Abay", Astana (formerly known as "Tourist" in the city of Tselinograd){{Cite web|url=http://mubarak.kz/details.php?id=571|title="Гостиница Абай (бывшая гостиница Турист)" в категории "Гостиницы" на Mubarak.kz|website=mubarak.kz|access-date=2016-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811221142/http://mubarak.kz/details.php?id=571|archive-date=2016-08-11|url-status=dead}}

On the 40th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, Michael Antonyuk painted "The Tragedy of Volyn Village Kortelisy" (Ukraine). In 1986, Michael Antonyuk was honored in a 50-year birthday biography publication by Ivan Svitich. In 1992, Michael Antonyuk was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Antonyuk fell ill in 1993, and was subsequently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Antonyuk suffered a stroke, and died at the age of 58 on 14 April 1993. He is interred in City Cemetery, Saryarka District, in Astana, Kazakhstan. He is survived by his children, Oksana Antonyuk (Master of Architecture, NYC) and Yaroslav Antonyuk (Artist, Architect & Interior Designer, Astana).{{Cite web|url=http://firms.sbn.kz/firms/view/33538/ARTIDEA|title=ARTIDEA|website=firms.sbn.kz|access-date=2016-06-17}}

Antonyuk dedicated his career of monumental artwork to his nationalist admiration for Kazakhstan. Art historians focus on the fact that his art reflects the inner world of Antonyuk and his thoughts. According to Natalya Kurpyakova, deputy editor-in-chief of Niva Magazine, "Michael's artistic work has appeared in the public service of social needs in construction, district towns, state and collective farms. He was elected a member of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR, under the Central Auditing Commission of the Union of Artists. Fourteen years he served as chairman of the Tselinograd Union of Artists of Kazakhstan. He was conferred the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Muralist, avant-garde Soviet realism and the Union of Artists since 1963."{{Cite journal|last=Kurpyakova|first=Natalya|date=2002|title=Renaissance Artist|url=http://www.niva-kz.narod.ru/jurnals.html|department=Fine Arts|journal=Kazakhstan Literary and Socio-Educational Magazine|publisher=NIVA|volume=6|issue=75775|pages=121–131}} His art studio walls are densely covered with canvas. The paintings of Michael Antonyuk are found in the Museum of Modern Art, Astana, Kazakhstan in addition to private collections.{{Cite web|url=http://rus.azattyq.org/a/astana-zakrytie-muzeya-sovremennogo-iskusstva/26517973.html|title=Последние дни старейшего музея|last=ГЛУШКОВА|first=Светлана|date=11 August 2014|website=КУЛЬТУРА|publisher=Радио Азаттык}}

• Цветное фото Дворца Целинников. Автор: Антонюк М. Я., 1967 г.{{Cite web|url=http://el.kz/m/photos/view/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB-%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8E%D0%BA-2|title=Album: The exhibition, timed to the birthday "Tselinniks Palace".|publisher=ARTIDEA}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• "Aggression", 163x103, 1970, oil on canvas.

• Exhibition of fine arts of Kazakhstan, Tselinograd.

• Montmartre, from the series "Paris", 100x70, 1973, Mixed media, Lithography.
• "Paris", 100x70, 1973, Mixed media, Lithography.
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• "Festival at Lake Tengiz", 160x150, 1973, tempera, canvas.

• Otium tour of Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
• Union of Artists of the USSR traveling exhibition in Kazakhstan.
• "Sugar Cane", 90x90, 1974, oil on canvas.

• Ivan Fomich Svitich joined the Union of Artists,{{Cite web|url=http://artru.info/ar/35898/|title=Свитич Иван Фомич|website=АртРу.инфо - Художники}} as Michael Antonyuk was Organizer and Chairman of the Union of Artists in former Soviet Union republic of Kazakhstan.
• Creative journey in Crimea.

• "On Holiday" 160x160, 1976, tempera on canvas.
• "Dastarkhān", 170x115, 1976, tempera on canvas.
• "Holiday Yurt", 40x47, 1976, ink, graphics, etching.
• "Yurts", 75x70, 1976, ink, graphics, etching.{{Cite web|url=http://e-history.kz/en/publications/view/929|title=В картинной галерее "Астана"|website=открылся зал графики и скульптуры|publisher=История Казахстана}}{{Cite web|url=http://e-history.kz/ru/publications/view/923|title=В галерее "Астана" состоится открытие зала графики и скульптуры · Публикации · Портал "История Казахстана"|website=e-history.kz}}

• "Old Aqsaqal", 50x70, 1977, felt pen.

• "Golden Steppe", 1980, 7x9 meters, ceramic mosaic. Commissioned for the House of Culture located in Vozdvyzhensky, Kazakhstan. A tribute to classical and folklore composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev.

• "Victor Jara", 140x100, 1981, tempera, canvas.

• "The Tragedy of Volyn Village Kortelisy in Ukraine", 200x100, 1985, tempera on canvas.

• Roman Yulianovich Selsky, 1903-1989 Artist, Professor of Fine Art
• Tulychiv, native village of Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk, in Turiysk district of Volyn region, Ukraine
• [http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Monumental+Art Monumental Art], from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979
• [http://antonyuk.wixsite.com/artidea/about-us Yaroslav Mikhailovich Antonyuk], [http://unionartastana.kz/%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B/%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8E%D0%BA-%D1%8F/ artistic protégé] and son of Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk
• [http://www.t-shevchenko.name/en/Painting/1851-57/Tjuk-KaragajCapeOnMangyshlakPeni.html Mangyshlak], Tjuk-Karagaj cape on Mangyshlak peninsula, by Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1964, Vol. 9, No. 60, p. 38.
• [http://astana.restoran.kz/cafe/2613-abay Abay], "Flora of Kazakhstan" and "Industry", 4x6 meters, collaborative work between Michael Antonyuk and Vasily Ivanovich Tovtin. Completed in 1984 in the hotel "Abay", Astana (formerly known as "Tourist" in the city of Tselinograd)
• [https://ok.ru/profile/567794102952/statuses/64302862418088 Palace of Wedding Ceremonies], "Signs of the Zodiac", in the city of Tselinograd. Дворец бракосочетаний. [http://yvision.kz/post/490496 Уже снесли]. Stained glass windows in the [https://www.drive2.ru/b/760067/ Palace of Ceremonies]. Completed in 1982

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• Roman Yulianovich Selsky, 1903-1989 Artist, Professor of Fine Art
• Tulychiv, native village of Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk, in Turiysk district of Volyn region, Ukraine
• [http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Monumental+Art Monumental Art], from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979
• [http://antonyuk.wixsite.com/artidea/about-us Yaroslav Mikhailovich Antonyuk], [http://unionartastana.kz/%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B/%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8E%D0%BA-%D1%8F/ artistic protégé] and son of Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk
• [http://www.t-shevchenko.name/en/Painting/1851-57/Tjuk-KaragajCapeOnMangyshlakPeni.html Mangyshlak], Tjuk-Karagaj cape on Mangyshlak peninsula, by Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1964, Vol. 9, No. 60, p. 38.
• [http://astana.restoran.kz/cafe/2613-abay Abay], "Flora of Kazakhstan" and "Industry", 4x6 meters, collaborative work between Michael Antonyuk and Vasily Ivanovich Tovtin. Completed in 1984 in the hotel "Abay", Astana (formerly known as "Tourist" in the city of Tselinograd)
• [https://ok.ru/profile/567794102952/statuses/64302862418088 Palace of Wedding Ceremonies], "Signs of the Zodiac", in the city of Tselinograd. Дворец бракосочетаний. [http://yvision.kz/post/490496 Уже снесли]. Stained glass windows in the [https://www.drive2.ru/b/760067/ Palace of Ceremonies]. Completed in 1982.

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