Pelaheia Hlushchenko
Biography
Pelageia Ivanivna Hlushchenko was born on October 10, 1908, in Petrykivka to a village carpenter. Her father made chests and fans that were painted by their fellow villager Tetiana Pata. The girl saw this work from an early age and studied painting with Pata even before she went to school. She completed four grades of the local school.
in 1933, she moved to Dniprodzerzhynsk, where she worked at a garment factory. in 1937, she moved to Kyiv to study at the school of folk artists. Together with Hanna Pavlenko-Chernychenko, Vira Pavlenko, Marfa Tymchenko, and Vira Klymenko-Zhukova, she formed the “Kyiv group” of Petrykivka craftswomen, those who brought the tradition from the Dnipro region to the capital and introduced it to the art industry.
She worked at the Shevchenko Souvenir Factory in Kyiv, where, together with her colleagues, she introduced underlacquer painting on a black background, a method that later became characteristic of Soviet Petrykivka. At the same time, she created monumental paintings and worked in book graphics.
Honored Master of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR (1967). She died on April 11, 1983 in Kyiv. in 1977, the Art Publishing House released an album dedicated to her, compiled by Borys Butnyk-Siverskyi.
Artistic Practice
Pelageia Hlushchenko was a master of a wide creative range. She worked in traditional house painting (until 1933), monumental and decorative art, book graphics, textiles (sketches of embossed fabrics), underglaze painting of wooden products, and porcelain overglaze painting.
Her talent was especially evident in her decorative easel compositions. The style of her works is marked by lyrical images, traditional compositions, variations of floral motifs, and sophistication of color. She painted without a pencil - immediately with a brush, without any corrections.
Among her monumental works are the wall paintings of the Ukrainian SSR pavilion at VDNKh in Moscow (1938-1940, co-authored).
Recognition
Honored Master of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR (1967). Participant in national and international exhibitions. Personal album in the publishing house “Art” (1977).