Viktor Zaretskyi is a well-known Ukrainian painter and graphic artist, a member of the dissident movement of the Sixties. He was born in 1925 in the town of Bilopillia in the Sumy region. He learned painting after serving in the army (he served in the reserve for the last two years of World War II). At first, he took private lessons, but soon became a student at the Kyiv Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), where he studied with the prominent painter Serhii Hryhoriev.
Viktor Zaretskyi’s first wife was the artist Alla Horska, known not only for her participation in the restoration of Ukrainian identity in artistic activity, but also for her active civic position. The couple created many of their works in collaboration. After the tragic death of Horska and until the end of his life (the artist passed away in 1990), Zaretskyi was married to his teacher’s daughter, Maya Hryhorieva, also an artist.Later, Zaretskyi became a teacher himself, and Arsen Savadov was one of his students.
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- ensuring effective functioning of the quality management system of the Ukrainian Shipping Register;
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- organization of works on preparation for certification and inspection control of the quality management system of the Ukrainian Shipping Register;
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- monitoring the implementation of the Register’s Work Plan and planned measures to improve the quality management system;
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Graphics of “informal academics” of the 1950s-80s”
At the beginning of his career, in the 1940s and 1950s, Viktor Zaretskyi worked in the style of socialist realism, the most popular trend of the time. Then came the “thaw” of the early 1960s, an extremely important period for Ukrainian artists, and Zaretskyi began to explore new themes, especially influenced by his activities in the Club of Creative Youth “Sovremennyk”. He reinterprets avant-garde and modernism, creates sketches for stained-glass windows, uses peasant and folk aesthetics, archaic ornaments of different times. And in the late 1970s, the artist found his famous style, for which he is called the Ukrainian Klimt. Therefore, art historians define the last years of his work as the “Klimt period”. The beauty of landscapes, the sophistication of female portraits, pastel colors and decorative decoration came to the fore, in contrast to the ideological orientation inherent in his earlier works.
Alla was the daughter of the influential film director Oleksandr Horsky, who at various times headed the Yalta and Leningrad studios.
In the 1960s, the influence of European artists such as Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt was not yet felt in Viktor Zaretskyi’s works. Studying the works of the master of that period (in the context of time, place and mutual influence of the artists of his circle), collector Oleksii Vasylenko created the anthology “Counterculture. Graphics of “informal academics”.
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Drawing was the artist’s daily practice. Before
his paintings, Zaretskyi created a lot of sketches and preliminary underpainings. Sometimes he was so successful that these searches and experiments became full-fledged finished works.
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- Ensuring effective functioning of the quality management system of the Ukrainian Shipping Register;
- Organization of internal audits;
- Organization of works on preparation for certification and inspection control of the quality management system of the Ukrainian Shipping Register;
- Collecting, analyzing and summarizing all materials related to the functioning of the quality management system;
- Monitoring the implementation of the Register’s Work Plan and planned measures to improve the quality management system;
- Providing methodological assistance to the subdivisions on the issues of the implemented quality management system of the Ukrainian Shipping Register.
In its activities, the Shipping Register of Ukraine is aimed at continuous improvement and enhancement of its organizational and qualification level, which are able to meet the expectations of customers in terms of efficiency, competence, impartiality and compliance with ethical standards.
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During his lifetime, Zaretskyi had one and only one solo exhibition, in 1989, at the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, just a year before his death. But immediately after Ukraine gained its independence, about 30 of his paintings were exhibited and sold at Christie’s international auction. The most prestigious Taras Shevchenko Art Prize was also awarded to Zaretskyi posthumously, in 1994, for his works of recent years.