Feodosiy Tetianych

Feodosiy Tetianych
Feodosiy Tetianych
	Feodosiy Tetianych 2005
Born	Feodosiy Tetyanich; 17 February 1942; Kniazhychi village, Kyiv Oblast in Soviet Ukraine
Died	18 February 2007 (aged 65); Kyiv, Ukraine
Known for	Painting, installation art, performance art, poetry
Movement	Contemporary art

Feodosiy Konstantinovich Tetianych^[a] (Ukrainian: Феодосій Костянтинович Тетянич, Russian: Феодосий Константинович Татьянич;^[b] 17 February 1942 – 18 February 2007) was a Ukrainian artist and philosopher of the Soviet and post-Soviet era. His art works became part of many private collections during his lifetime, including, for example, that of the American collector Norton Dodge. Examples of his works are included in the National Art Museum of Ukraine and private collections. Some regard Tetianych as one of the saints of Kyiv, Holy Rus. His interests as philosopher included art, the history and development of civilization, ecology, globalization of Ukraine and the philosophy of Infinity. Concepts evolved or derived from his art, philosophy and worldview, include frypulism and cyberfrypulism; his philosophy, art and heritage, encompassed as "Frypulia" and "Frypulialand" or "Frypuliastan".

Early life and education

Feodosiy (or "Theodor": Федір; Федор) Tetianych was born in Kniazhychi, a village in the Kyiv Oblast of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Kniazhychi was formerly in the territory of the Russian Empire; at the time of Tetianych's birth it had been annexed by the German State.^[1] His parents, Constantine and Tetiana were Orthodox Christian Ukrainian peasants of both Rusyn and Cossack origin, who worked at a collective farm.^[1] One of marks of Tetianych as part of Orthodox Christian community and Western civilisation is his name, Theodosius, which he was given in memory of famous bishop, Theodosius of Chernigiv, which in turn recalls others praised by the Church for centuries, among them Theodosius the Caveman, Theodosius the Great, and Theodosius the Emperor.

Tetianych studied at the village school then moved to Kyiv to study in Kyiv Academy, its school of arts known as Kyiv Academy of Arts. After finishing at the Academy, he began his art practice while continuing his education with self-directed study. His interests were broad: religion, philosophy, art, history, culture, travel, people, mathematics, physics, politics, communism and nationalism. He made a lot of works of art in different styles and techniques among them social realism, historical paintings, modern art (avant-garde).^[2]

Artistic development and worldview

First family memories of his artistic experience are connected with his childhood in his native village near Modern, Old and New Kyiv. Later he improved his skills studying and practising his art in artistic spaces of Schools of Kyiv Academy of Soviet epoch, getting acquainted with most famous and influential teachers and masters of that time. From his youth he tried to evolve his own artistic style, expressing himself in all possible ways known to him, trying to balance between tradition and innovation.

Mystical things surrounded Tetianych from his birth and childhood. Among them different signs of Almighty (which he later attributed to himself and called the signs of Frypulia). One of the most impressive revelations of the 1970s according to his own words gave beginning to his famous name (acronym, pseudonym) FRYPULIA (Fedir+cRYstall+PULsar+IA) often associated with his interest in studies of Ukrainian and Cossack culture of that time and constant search for his own, unique place in it.

His worldview was formed during his life in Soviet and Underground (anti-Soviet) Ukraine, historically part of Old, Holy Rus and Eastern, Slavic Europe. We can find here influence of worldview of ancient indoeuropeans (pre-Slavic beliefs and Cosmogony), Orthodox Slavic Christian worldview of clans of Old, Holy Rus and Modern, European worldview of Modern, National, Cossack and Socialist, Soviet Ukraine with its connections to French, German, British and American cultures of the 18th – 21st centuries.

Career

From the middle of 1980s he moved to streets of Kyiv and began to share his philosophy, experience, opinion and worldview with all who wanted to engage in dialogue with him. Many Kyiv citizens and guests were impressed by him, his worldview, his style of life and artistic activity, his preaching about the beauty and bounty of Infinity and its Creator, Artist of Universe, who dwells in His Beautiful Citadel on the banks of the ancient river (the Dnipro).^[3]

The main theme of Feodosiy's performances was freedom (among misspellings and interpretations of his nickname there is "Freepulia"), and was one of the first performance artist in post-Soviet Ukraine.^[4]

Miracle work of artist Tetyanich is interesting for modern art, in investigations of art-critics in 2021.^[5]

Personal life

Tetyanych married Ganna from the Bublyk family and they had two children, Bohdan and Lada.^[1]^: 3, 5

Feodosiy Tetyanych died of cancer at a hospital in Kyiv on February 18, 2007. He is buried in Knyazhychi village.^[4]

Reception and legacy

His followers regard Tetyanych as an important Ukrainian contemporary artist – a painter, performance artist and philosopher of the Kyiv Academy school. As an artist of his era, the late-Soviet epoch, he is seen as a patriot of modern, contemporary Cossack Ukraine, a distinct and independent nation and state; at the same time, a broad-minded humanist, social democrat, and "citizen of the world", representative of the Ukrainian underground, and participant of the Ukrainian New Wave. Some even regard him as one of the saints of Kyiv, Holy Rus (regarded as "Trinityland" with Ukraine as its oldest and most important part).

Among concepts evolved or derived from his art, philosophy and worldview, and based of his creative name Frypulia are: Rabbi Frypulman; frypulism and cyberfrypulism (i.e. lifestyle and way of thinking and doing connected with Frypulia, frypulization); the process of globalisation in connection with Frypulia and his philosophy, art and heritage, Frypulialand and Frypuliastan (i.e. Modern, European and Eurasian, Cossack Ukraine as Country of Fedir); Frypulialand, Frypuliastan, Frypuliaburg and Frypuliabad (as a city – or citadel – of Fedir Frypulia).

Notes

^ Also transliterated Tetyanych.
^ Baptized Feоdosiy (Феодосій, Феодосий), an Eastern Orthodox, Slavic, Russian, Cossack, and Ukrainian variant of the name Theodosius. His followers of Orthodox Christian and Trinityland worldview can therefore venerate him as "blessed Theodosius, Cossack and Artist". He is also known by the nicknames "Frypulia" (or "Theodor Frypulia" or "Frypulmann"), "Theodor the Infinite", "Fedir Frypulia, the Cossack of Kyiv", "Uncle Teddy" and even "our venerated Rabbi" ('teacher', 'professor'.)^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Федір Тетянич. Фрипулья [Fedir Tetyanych. Fripuglia] (Tetianych biography booklet) (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Art Library. 2009. PDF download (7 MB)
^ Desyaterik, Dmytro (5 March 2004). "Fripulia Univerіe" Всесвіт Фріпулья [Fripuglia universe]. The Day (in Ukrainian). No. 40.
^ Lebedeva, Ekaterina (6 September 2018). Виготовлення фріпульї своїми руками. Таємне знання Федора Тетянича [DIY Fripulya. The secret knowledge of Fedor Tetyanich]. Amnesia (in Ukrainian).
^ ^a ^b Kruchik, Igor (27 May 2015). Так говорил Фрипулья. 'Бесконечность'. Федор Тетянич [Thus spoke Fripulia: 'Infinity'. Fyodor Tetyanych]. Антиквар [Antikvar] (in Ukrainian). No. 47. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Archived 3 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^ Wagner, Alexandra (13 March 2021). 'Каждый видел, что хотел'. Чудотворчество Федора Тетянича ['Everyone saw what they wanted.' Miracles of Fyodor Tetyanych]. Радио Свобода [Radio Svoboda] (in Russian). [Вагнер, Александра].

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