Mykhaylo Nikiforovich Chornyi іs a Ukrainian Realist, Neo-Primitivist.
Education
Mykhaylo Chornyi studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year he entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master"s Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin.
Career
People"s Artist of Ukraine (2003). At the post-graduate school in Soviet Academy of Arts he studied in Sergey Grigoriev"s and Mykhaylo Deregus"s workshop. Mykhaylo Chornyi has more than 50 personal exhibitions of paintings and graphics all over former Soviet Union and throughout nowadays Ukraine.
Politics
He transformed the Socialist realism artistic manner he was taught through a Ukrainian academic romanticism and historicism, rare at that time of Soviet censorship and pressure, to a new folk artistic style.
Membership
A member of Ukrainian National Artists" Union since 1968.