Мiхаiл Чэпiк
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Soviet Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Member of the USSR. Mikhail Maksimovich Chepik was born on November 21, 1920 in Kiev.
After graduating from the Kiev Art School in 1940, he entered the Faculty of Painting of the Kiev State Art Institute. But his studies were interrupted by the war and in 1941 Mikhail Chepik was drafted into the Red Army.
After graduating from the Kharkiv Armored School, he fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Marked with military awards. After demobilization, in 1946, he returned to classes at the Kiev Art Institute, which he graduated in 1951. His teachers were: AA Shovkunenko, TN Yablonskaya, KN Eleva. Father of the famous artist Sergei Chepik (born 1953), now living in France. He took part in republican art exhibitions since 1949, All-Union - since 1957, foreign - since 1953. Чепик М.М. - Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He worked in the field of easel painting. Master of thematic painting. Main works: "Vysotniki", "Domainshchiki", "Shakhter", "Hockey players". For the Jubilee Shevchenko Decade he painted "Roaring and groaning Dnieper wide" (1961) and "Great sorrow" (1964). At the same time, the artist is constantly working on still lifes, portraits and landscapes. Makes creative trips to Ukraine, Russia, Central Asia and outside the Soviet Union. In the 1970s he created a series of pastels with views of Moscow, Yugoslavia, France and Czechoslovakia. Personal exhibitions were held in 1970 in Kiev and Belgrade, in 1971 - in Moscow, in 1973 posthumous - in Kiev. The artist died on December 9, 1972. He was buried in Kyiv in the Baykovo cemetery.
Works by MM Chepika are presented in the collections of art museums of Ukraine, in gallery and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain, USA.
