Martynovich, Porfiry Denisovich

Born in the family of an official - secretary of a county court. After studying at a local hostel, his father sent him to the Kharkov Classical Gymnasium in 1876 . In 1873 - 1881 he studied at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts , but due to illness he did not finish his studies; followed the advice of I.N. Kramskoy .

During his studies in 1877, he received a large silver medal. Exhibitor of the Association of Wanderers .

As a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, he served as a model for creating the image of one of the Cossacks in the painting by Ilya Repin "Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan . " Repin wrote this character with a plaster mask taken from Martynovich during practical classes at the Academy ^[1] .

In 1922 - 1933 P. Martynovich worked as a researcher at the Krasnograd Museum of Local Lore .

He died of starvation on December 15, 1933.

P. Martynovich is the author of many original portraits of national types of Ukrainian peasants and Poltava Cossacks , illustrations for I. Kotlyarevsky ’s poem “ Aeneid ” (13 compositions in oil and Italian pencil from 1873-1884).

The artist performed a number of sketches of folk life, traditional decoration, views of the region, wooden temples and houses, colorful and characteristic types of chumaks , relics of their economy.

He painted household compositions with oil.

He also studied Ukrainian folk clothes and made many sketches in pencil and oil sketches, both of whole sets and of individual costume items.

Since 1885, he no longer took up the brush, but did not stop recording folklore, the works of traveling singer-musicians.

Although Martynovich did not reach full creative maturity, the little that he managed to create in the short years of an active creative life speaks of his outstanding and original talent. In his small canvases it is not difficult to notice the impact of Shevchenko’s Ukrainian national tradition, as well as the influence of Russian democratic painting (especially V. G. Perov ).

• "At the office of the volost clerk" (1879, Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art),
• paired portraits of the painter-wanderer I. Kramsky and his wife Sofia (1878-79),
• portraits of student friends O. Slasten, M. Bruni (1877), M. Egorova (1878),
• graphic portraits of Oksana Bushtrymiha from the village of Dobrenki (1875),
• Kobzar Ivan Kryukovsky from Lokhvitsy (1878),
• "In the coffers of the Academy of Arts" (1877-80, Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art),
• portrait of grandfather Gritska Gonchar,
• "The decoration of the hut of the Cossack Grigory Gonchar in Veremievka",
• portraits
  • Oleksa Cooper,
  • "Blind",
  • Trochim Mironenko,
  • Pasco the Thundering,
  • Jacob Krichak et al.

The results of his ethnographic research were included in a collection published in 1906 in Kiev, entitled "Ukrainian notes by Porfiry Martynovich."

• Mistetsvo of Ukraine: Biographical dovidnik / Edited by A. V. Kudritsky. - K .: 1997. - S. 399;
• Mystetsvo of Ukraine: Biographical dovidnik / Ordinators: A. V. Kudritsky, M. G. Labinsky. For the editorship of A.V. Kudritsky. - K .: "Ukrainian Encyclopedia" im. M.P. Bazhan, 1997 .-- 700 p. - ISBN 5-88500-071-9 .. - S. 399.
• Porfiry Martinovich and sochasnіst. Materials of scientific-practical conference. - X .: Fund ім. Gnat Khotkevich, 2006 - 48 p .;
• Taranushenko, S.A. P. D. Martinovich. - K .: 1958. - 56 p. ;
• Cheremsky, K.P. - X .: Glass, 2002 .-- S. 288-299.