Hanna Pavlenko Chernychenko
Biography
Hanna Pavlenko-Chernychenko was born on December 8, 1919, in Petrykivka. The daughter of the artist Paraska Pavlenko and the younger sister of Vira Pavlenko, the Pavlenko family has been painting since childhood. She received her first painting lessons from her mother.
in 1936, before she left Petrykivka, she was the first Petrykivka artist to use painting on porcelain while studying at the Kyiv School of Folk Art Masters. It was a real revolution: the Petrykivka ornament found a new material.
in 1941, she graduated from the school. From 1944 to 1986, she worked as an artist at the Kyiv Experimental Ceramic and Art Factory, where, together with her sister Vira and Vira Klymenko-Zhukova, she formed the Kyiv direction of Petrykivka painting on porcelain. She has participated in republican exhibitions since 1936, all-Union exhibitions since 1938, and foreign exhibitions since 1937.
She was a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine since 1944. She died on February 2, 2008 in Kyiv.
Artistic Practice
Hanna Pavlenko-Chernychenko is one of the most productive and prominent masters of Petrykivka porcelain painting. She painted vases, plates, tea and coffee sets, and souvenirs. At the same time, she created decorative panels on paper, artistic postcards, book graphics, and sketches of fabric paintings.
Among her special projects are the painting of the library of the National Museum of Russian Art in Kyiv and stained-glass windows in the Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (1960s). A large interior vase by her decorated the Ukrainian mission to the United Nations. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Shevchenko’s death, she created an ornamental painting of a decorative vase with a portrait of the poet (1964).
Recognition
The collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art contains 273 porcelain pieces and 154 decorative paintings on paper by the artist. The works are permanently present in the museum’s permanent exhibition as one of the central names of the Kyiv group of Petrykivka masters.