№Verns 1189
*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Figuree ballerina and rose with thorns"
* ARTISTS: Semykina Lyudmila Nikolaevna
* SIZE: 160x80 cm/'62.99x31.49 inches' * MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product
About the artist: Ukrainian artist, master of decorative art. Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Lyudmila Nikolaevna Semykina was born on August 23, 1924 in Odessa.
In 1947 she graduated from the Odessa Art School, and in 1953 - the Kiev State Art Institute, where she studied with A. Shovkunenko, K. Eleva, V. Puzyrkov, T. Yablonskaya.
The wife of the artist Mikhail Sergeevich Baroyants (1925-2006).
Since 1953 she has been a participant of republican, all-Union and foreign art exhibitions.
L.N. Semykina has been a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR since 1958.
She worked in the field of easel painting and graphics.
"Sixtieth".
From 1960 to 1965 - organizer and active member of the Creative Youth Club.
In 1964, Lyudmila Semykina, in collaboration with Alla Gorskaya, Panas Zalivakha, Galina Sevruk and Galina Zubchenko, created a stained glass window "Taras Shevchenko" for the lobby of the main building of Kiev University, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. The stained glass window was destroyed by the university administration. A commission of the Union of Artists convened after that qualified him as "ideologically vicious". In April 1964, the Plenum of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR expelled L. Semykina and A. Gorskaya from the Union of Artists.
In January 1966, it was restored, but in June 1968 it was again expelled from the Union of Artists for signing in March 1968 a protest letter "139" addressed to Leonid Brezhnev, Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny, demanding to stop the practice of illegal political trials.
It was restored in the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1988.
Master of decorative arts.
During the years of Ukraine's independence, she has created collections of clothing "Scythian Step", "Poliska Legend", "Knyazha Doba", "Modern", "High Castle".
Major works:
- "Group portrait of the old Bolsheviks-arsenals", "In the Odessa port", "Winter evening", "Twilight", "After the detour" (1954)
- "Windy Day" (1957)
- "Repair of the pier" (1960)
- "In the morning" (1961)
- "The Legend of Kiev" (1966)
- Sketches of costumes for the film "Zakhar Berkut" (1970-1971)
- Decoration of the Petrovka metro station in Kiev (1980)
In 1996, a personal exhibition of L.N. Semykina took place.
In 1997 she became the Laureate of the National Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko, and in 2000 - the Prize named after V. Stus.
In 2009 he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Ukraine".
The works of Lyudmila Nikolaevna Semykina are presented in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, in museum, gallery and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

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