Hanna Isaieva

Biography

Hanna Kondrativna Isaieva (née Pylypenko before her marriage) was born on February 23, 1912 in Petrykivka. She learned to paint from her uncle, Yaryna Pylypenko, one of the leading artists of the first generation. Later, she improved her skills under the influence of Tetiana Patia.

In 1935, together with Tetiana Pata, she painted the auditorium of the Kyiv Art Institute. in 1936, at the First Republican Exhibition of Folk Art in Kyiv, she received a first-degree diploma from the School of Folk Masters of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. In 1939, together with Tetiana Pata and Vekla Kucherenko, she painted a tobacco shop in Moscow.

Since 1958, she has been an artist in the varnish painting department of the Druzhba factory. In 1970, she moved to the newly created Experimental Petrykivka Painting Workshop at the Dnipropetrovs’k Art and Production Plant, where she was a member of the home-based team led by Fedir Panko.

She died on 20 September 1983 in Petrykivka.

Artistic Practice

Hanna Isaieva is a “transitional type” of artist: she did not study directly at Tetiana Pata’s school, but developed creatively alongside her, absorbing the spirit and techniques of the Petrykivka tradition. She made decorative panels with egg tempera, painted jewelry boxes and decorative plates.

Her artistic style is characterized by symmetry in the construction of ornamental compositions, clear drawing and contrasting combination of primary and secondary spectral colors. She developed the traditions of folk house painting, keeping in touch with the primary sources of Petrykivka ornamentation.

Recognition

First degree diploma of the Republican Exhibition (1936). Bronze medal of the Republican Exhibition of Folk Art and Amateur Creativity (Kyiv, 1972). Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1965).