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Pimonenko, Mykola (Kornylevych) [Nikolay Kornil’yevich]
(b Kiev, 9 March 1862; d Kiev, 26 March 1912). Ukrainian painter. The son of an icon painter, he studied from 1878 to 1882 at Mykola Murashko’s (1844–1909) school of drawing in Kiev and from 1882 to 1884 at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1893 he was a member of the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers). However, the critical realism of this group was less important to his own work than was the example of genre painters of the previous generation, such as Konstantin Aleksandrovich Trutovsky (1826–93) and Ivan Ivanovich L. Sokolov (1823–1918). Like these artists, Pimonenko was more interested in the anecdotal element in his subjects and was attentive to local customs and traditions, which he used bright and varied colours to depict, as in the Annual Fair (1898; Kiev, Mus. Ukrain. A.). Sometimes he poetically combined rural genre with landscape, as in Before the Storm (1906; Kiev, Mus. Ukrain. A.). While his artistic temperament was generally placid and contemplative, several of his paintings reflect sharply dramatic social conflicts; Lynch Law (1900; Kiev, Mus. Ukrain. A.), for example, shows the summary punishment of a horse thief. At the beginning of the 20th century, Pimonenko’s work was clearly influenced by Impressionism and his plein-air subjects became more varied and striking, as in the scene of village life, Rivals (1909; Kiev, Mus. Ukrain. A.).
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