Spring in the Mountains

Hennadii Petrovych Polovyi was a Ukrainian graphic artist and publicist. He was born on June 3, 1927 in Odesa. In 1950, he was arrested on charges of creating an anti-Soviet youth organization. From 1950 to 1954, he worked in logging. In 1954, he was rehabilitated. In 1960, he graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute, Department of Graphics, Easel Graphics Workshop of Professor O. Pashchenko. His teachers in the specialty were V. Kasiian, I. Pleshchynskyi, and O. Pashchenko. Polovyi worked in various genres of painting and was a recognized master of the landscape, creating the series "Crimea. Karadag" (1969), "Pearl Carpathians" (1990), "Willows of Ukraine" (1997-2007), "Evening Lights of Kyiv" (2000-2002), cycles of landscapes from trips to Siberia, Buryatia, Sayan Mountains, Yakutia, Bulgaria, and the Caucasus, and other works. He held more than 20 personal exhibitions. Some of his works are in local history and art museums of Ukraine and private collections. Polovyi died on May 4, 2017 in Kyiv.