ArtistKotska, Andrij Andreevich

Artist Years1911-1987

Artist NationalityUkrainian, Russian

TitleCarpathian Landscape

Yearca. 1970

MediumPainting > Oil

DimensionsCanvas: 20 X 27 inches

Accession NumberRC1562

NotesAndriy Andriyovich Kotska was a Ukrainian Soviet painter. He was honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1971) and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1982).

In 1931 he graduated from the public drawing school in Uzhgorod. He was a pupil of Adalbert Erdeli and Iosif Bokshay. He continued his studies at the department of monumental painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, from which he graduated in 1942.

He was a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1946. Since 1977 he was Member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR and a member of the Presidium of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR.

Kotska participated in exhibitions since 1932. The most resonant exhibitions were in Moscow (1964), Uzhhorod (1981), solo in Moscow (1983), solo in Trebišov (Czechoslovakia, 1984).

Kotska died in Uzhhorod in 1987

Note:
The works of A. Kotska are original in style and are distinguished by impeccable coloring. His style is easily recognizable. A kind of visiting card of the artist is a series of female portraits "Gutsulok" and "Verkhovinka". In Kotska's landscapes, the world becomes orderly and organized. The tops of the mountains round out and become like waves merging with a distant land. The houses stand on the slopes of the mountains in such a way that it seems: not by the will of the artist, but by man, the order of their placement was established on the ground. "Spring in the Ashes" (1966) is a small lyrical picture. where a certain muted color is organically combined with various bright colors. A small mountain village has already met spring, gardens have blossomed, the earth is covered with greenery. Even the mountains, depicted in barely lilac and blue-pink colors, have become spring. Either from the sun's rays, or from the vegetation that has blossomed. The leitmotif of the picture is everything blooms and is reborn. Another picture of the artist, "Landscape" (1970) – with red and copper roofs of houses, blue mountain peaks, white snow and yurba of people who apparently went out on Sunday to take a break from hard work. The cycle of life, the movement of air, people, nature - all this creates a unique flavor, emphasized by the realism of the image.
(source: wikipedia.org)