Mykhailo Baraniuk

Mykhailo Baraniuk (; 1834, , now part of Kosiv – 1902, same place) was a Ukrainian folk master of artistic ceramics. He was the son of Ivan and the father of Baraniuk. He was one of the representatives of the Kosiv school of ceramics.

Biography He acquired the skills of making pottery from his father, the master Ivan Baraniuk.

The range of Mykhailo Baraniuk's works was typical of Hutsul ceramic art, including plates, bowls, tiles, and candlesticks. His pieces, especially the candlesticks and utilitarian vessels, are distinguished by decoration using the flyandruvannia technique (painting with colored engobes on raw enamel/glaze).

A distinctive feature of Mykhailo Baraniuk's creative manner is the application of a characteristic, brightly expressed pattern and the use of a unique color scheme. He applied designs in brown, green, and yellow onto a white background, with the main elements of the drawing often filled with red engobe ("chervinka") or reddish-brown ("rudka"), which was characteristic only of him and his father, Ivan.

Despite the prevalence of ornamentation, the master meticulously drew small traditional motifs such as a rooster, a flowerpot, or a rosette flower in the center of the composition using the sgraffito (incising) technique, combining the techniques of flyandruvannia and rizhkuvannia (applying colored clay/engobe with a special horn/funnel). His bowls are richly decorated with both plant and geometric ornaments.

His works are preserved in the collections of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia Folk Art.