Landscape

Omelian Yuriiovych Lishchynskyi was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Born on December 16, 1913 in Lviv, he was a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1939). Lishchynskyi graduated from the Department of Decorative Arts and Crafts of the State Technical School (Lviv, 1937) and studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts (1937-1939) in the class of M. Kotarbinskyi. He worked in Lviv: in 1940 and 1941 as a research associate of the art gallery and the art and industrial museum, then as a teacher at an art and industrial school (1941-1944), art school (1944-1945), and children's art school (1946-1973). He participated in art exhibitions starting in 1942. Lishchynskyi's personal exhibitions were held in Lviv (1984, posthumous - 2002, 2013). The author's early landscape paintings are influenced by post-impressionism and Polish colorism. In the 1940s and 1950s, his paintings acquired realistic touches; later, he paid more attention to color. He created cartoons, drawings in pencil, felt-tip pen, watercolor and gouache, applications, and greeting cards. Lishchynskyi's enamels are distinguished by their high artistic culture and subtle gradation of light-color ratios. His major works include paintings: "Landscape", "Collective Farm Woman" (both - 1938), "Landscape near Lviv", "Marko", "Morning" (all - 1945), "Lviv. State Medical Institute" (1947), "Landscape from Ash" (1954), "Hutsul Still Life", and "Carpathian Landscape" (both - 1960); graphics: a design project for playing cards (1936); "Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi", "By the Pier", "Lyman", "Gurzuf" (all - 1952), "Yavoriv" (1962), "Still Life with Flowers" (1983); and the applique "Decorative Still Life" (1983). Lishchynskyi lived and worked in Lviv. He died on April 5, 1986 in Lviv.