Chebykin, Andrey Vladimirovich

Born on April 14, 1946 in Gaysin (now Vinnytsia region , Ukraine ). In 1970 he graduated from the Kiev State Pedagogical Institute . Member of domestic and international art exhibitions. The works of Andrey Chebykin are stored in the National Art Museum of Ukraine ( Kiev ), the State Tretyakov Gallery ( Moscow ), other museums and private collections in Ukraine and the world.

Over 35 years of teaching, he created a kind of print school. Manages the free graphics workshop of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (since 1985). Since 1970 - began teaching at the Kiev State Art Institute

• 1980-1987 - Vice - rector of the KHKHI
• 1985 - professor
• 1987-1989 - Chairman of the Kiev organization of the SCU, member of the board and secretariat of the SCU, board and secretariat of the USSR Union of Artists .
• since 1989 - rector of the KGHI .
• 1996 - founding academician of NAIU
• 1997 - elected president of ASU.
• 2001-2005 - Member of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee of Ukraine.
• 2009 - Member of the National Commission for UNESCO
• 2009 - Senator of the European Academy of Natural Sciences.

Chairman of the prize committee named after Ivan Ogienko. Member of the National Union of Artists .

In 1989, he was elected rector of the Kiev State Art Institute. During the leadership of the educational institution, maintaining good traditions, he reoriented the educational process aimed at the free disclosure of students' creative abilities.

He is a co-author of the textbook “Etching Technique” (1978) for art higher educational institutions. Many of his former pupils became famous artists, laureates of various art competitions, exhibitions, received honorary titles of Ukraine.

In 2017, he headed the jury of the All-Ukrainian Open Contest of Fine Arts #MISESTVO .

He works in the field of easel, book graphics, monumental art. The graphic series created by him amaze with the depth of thought and expressiveness of the art form, elegant relaxedness of execution. Among the important art-plastic principles developed by artist-teacher Andrei Chebykin is the principle of a skillful, inventive combination of metaphorical language of symbols and signs with the plastic qualities of the texture of graphic materials (paper, cardboard, etc.).

The most famous works are the graphic series Obradovo Village (1970), Soldier's Everyday Life (1972-1973), Cosmic Etchings (1976), Universe (1979-1980), Cosmos-Earth (1986); illustrations for literary works. Frank, L. Vysheslavsky, N. Gnatyuk, V. Grabovsky, I. Drach, B. Oleinik, V. Prostopchuk, G. Chubach (1977-1990), a series of tapestries for the interiors of the Donetsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after A. B. Solovyanenko (1994-1995); cycles of easel drawings and watercolors (1987-2006). The famous Ukrainian artist Georgy Yakutovich believed that A. Chebykin elevated the art of etching to the rank of the Ukrainian academic school, his, Chebykin, school ^[1] .

• Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture (1998)
• Foreign Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2007)

Rewards:

• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1977) - for a series of etchings “Soldier's Everyday Life”
• Gold Medal named after M. B. Grekov (1989)
• People's Artist of Ukraine (1992)
• Ogienko Prize (1996)
• Order of Merit I (2007) ^[2] , II (2004), III (1997) ^[3] degrees
• Certificate of Merit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2006)
• Honorary sign of the Kiev mayor "Badge of Honor" (2006)
• ASU Gold Medal (2006)
• National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine (2007) - for the cycle of artwork “Crimean motives”, “Female images”, “Withered foliage”.
• Order of the Senator Star of the European Academy of Natural Sciences (2009)
• diploma named after George Yakutovich (2010)
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V Degree (2011) ^[4] .

Family

• father - Vladimir Fedorovich (1922-1996) - teacher, director of Gaysinsky secondary school No. 5
• mother - Efrosinia Andreevna (1922) - a housewife.
• wife - Tamara Alekseevna (1944) - architect
• son - Alexey Chebykin (1969) - graphic artist, member of the National Union of Artists
• son - Vladimir (1973) - graphic artist ^[5] .

1. ↑ Igor Sharov, Anatoly Tolstoukhov. Artists of Ukraine: 100 prominent names. - K .: Artek, 2007. - C. 411. ISBN 966-505-134-2 (in Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 21/2007, dated September 18, 2007, to the Rock “On the Valued State Powers of Ukraine” Archived on July 27, 2014.
3. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1380/97 wid 23, 1997, Roku “On the value of Ukrainian towns and cities of the Ukrainian Academy of Mysteries, metro Kyiv”
4. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 708/2011 vid 24 chervnya 2011 roku "On the vignificance of the sovereign gates of Ukraine"
5. ↑ Chebykin Andrey Vladimirovich - Official Ukraine today

• Official site of the National Academy of Mysteries of Ukraine
• Biography, bibliography and portrait of A. Chebykin on the website of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky