Oleksa Bakhmatiuk
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Oleksa Bakhmatiuk | |
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| Олександр Петрович Бахматюк | |
 Oleksa Bakhmatiuk (drawing by an unknown painter) | |
| Born | 10 December 1820 |
| Died | 15 March 1882 (aged 61) |
| Occupation | Master of decorative tile painting |
Oleksa Bakhmatiuk (Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Бахматюк; 10 December 1820, Kosiv, now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast – 15 March 1882, there too[1]) was a Ukrainian master of decorative tile painting.
At the Kolomyia Industrial Exhibition in 1880, where Oleksa Bakhmatiuk works were displayed, he received a gold award.[2]
In the depiction of people, Bakhmatiuk developed a special manner, a certain canon. All of them are clearly typified. The figures, as a rule, stand in profile. Women—whether urban or Hutsul—are dressed in blouses and long skirts. Men are in short attire (only the depiction of the head changes: sometimes it is bare, sometimes it has a top hat (tsylindr) on it, sometimes a Hutsul klepania). The world of flora and fauna is widely represented by the master. Here, a flower that resembles a sunflower stands out—multi-petaled with a wide, hatched (cross-hatched/shaded) middle. There are depictions of beasts and birds—deer, bulls, lions, and luxurious peacocks and roosters.[1]
Bakhmatiuk, like other masters, invariably painted one or two images of Saint Nicholas on each of his stoves, in episcopal vestments, with sacred attributes in his hands, and a halo around his head. This was adherence to local traditions that had developed back at the beginning of the 19th century. On either side of the head were two figures (numbers) which indicated the date the stove was made.[1]
