Mykola Ivanovych Tseluiko (, also 'Tseluyko'; 3 July 1937, Slatyne – 31 October 2007,

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Early life

Tseluiko was born and spent his early childhood in Slatyne,

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. Tseluiko was the third and youngest child in the family. After his father went missing in the

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(1944), his family moved to

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, where they lived on Parkova (Park) Street.

Studies

From 1959 to 1965, Mykola Tseluiko studied in the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (now Lviv National Academy of Arts), specializing in the artistic design of fabrics.

Career

In 1965, Tseluiko moved to the

Cotton Combine as a fabric pattern artist. He worked there for the rest of his life. He became a leading artist at the Combine, which was the largest textile factory in the

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. Tseluiko "''created patterns for

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curtain and drapery fabrics making creative use of the Ukrainian folk art motifs and sketches from nature''".Dictionary of Ukrainian Artists, 1973, page 245 Under the

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system, patterns could only be brought into production when they had been reviewed and approved by the artistic council first in

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by the Ukrainian Institute of Light Industry, and then in Moscow by the All-Union Institute of Light Industry. These reviews were held three times per year. Tseluiko created "hundreds of square meters of sketches", and "hundreds of thousands of square meters of fabrics" were made by the Kherson Cotton Combine from his designs. Tseluiko also taught and supervised students at the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art. He became chief lecturer of Weaving and Design at the Kherson State Technological University. He taught Basics of Composition and Drawing and Textile Products Design.

Style

Mykola Tseluiko painted with tempera and water-color on paper. Most of his works were painted from nature: he took a sketchbox, a board, and sheets of paper, and went sketching. He painted very quickly in a single session. He often went on painting trips: he travelled, sketching and painting in the

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, the

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Mountains, the

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including

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including

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, the Baltic including Tallinn,

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, and Russia.

Artistic heritage

Mykola Tseluiko’s creative heritage is not limited to his work as a textile artist. All his life he gathered

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materials, which he subsequently used in developing fabric patterns; he wove thematic "

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" tapestries, particularly the handmade carpets ''Tavrian Legend'' (1968), ''Flaming Years'' (1970), and the decorative panel ''Musician'' (1969) are mentioned in the Dictionary of Ukrainian Artists; and he created many tempera paintings. Mykola Tseluiko died on 31 October 2007. He is buried in

Exhibitions and awards

* 1968 — 2nd Exhibition of Cotton Combine Artists, Kherson, Culture Palace for Textile Industry Workers. * 1974 — 3d Republican Exhibition of Watercolor,

. * 1975 — Republican Exhibition, ''New Samples of Folk Decorative Art for Mass and Serial Production'', Kyiv. * 1977 — International Industrial Exhibition of Fabrics,

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). * 1978 — Honorary diploma of the Ministry of Light Industry of the USSR. * 1981 — International Industrial Exhibition of Fabrics,

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, (

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). * 1981 — 1st prize at the Republican Competition Dedicated to Kyiv's 1500th Anniversary. * 1987 — International exhibitions of textile products in

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, and France. * 1987 — Anniversary personal exhibition, Kherson, Kherson Cotton Combine. * 1997 — Anniversary personal exhibition, Kherson, Kherson Cotton Combine. * 1999 — All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Amateur Pictorial Art, Kyiv, Ukrainian House. * 2009 – Exhibition of tempera paintings by Mykola Tseluyko at the

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Tseluiko also won several of the Textile Industry Scientific and Technical Community's competitions. From the 1960s, the Kherson Cotton Combine produced most of the country's textiles. Tseluiko used to joke that wherever he visited, there was always an exhibition of his works on display.

Bibliography

* * ''Ukrainian Art Studies-Kyiv'':

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, 1968. Pages 115, 117. * ''Modern Ukrainian Artists-Kyiv'':

, 1985. Pages 29, 51.

References

External links

Tseluyko.net Website
– Gallery of Tempera paintings {{DEFAULTSORT:Tseluiko, Mykola 1937 births 2007 deaths People from Slatyne, Kharkiv Oblast Textile artists Russian male artists 20th-century Ukrainian painters 20th-century Ukrainian male artists 21st-century Ukrainian painters 21st-century Ukrainian male artists Russian textile artists 20th-century textile artists 21st-century textile artists Ukrainian male painters