Ukrainian landscape artists and their paintings. Contemporary Ukrainian artists
Receiving more and more orders to print reproductions of world works, we asked ourselves: “What famous paintings were painted by our compatriots?” You will be surprised by the results - some of the paintings you definitely didn’t know about!
It so happened that the work of contemporary Ukrainian artists is better known in Europe and America, and in home country their works are recognized only by rare art connoisseurs. We decided that if you don’t know our heroes by sight, then at least know them famous works admired all over the world. Since we cannot objectively judge the beauty of paintings and the skill of the author, we will evaluate contemporary artists by their popularity, financial success and the scale of their exhibitions around the world.
We have selected 10 best, in our opinion, paintings by Ukrainian artists, whose work you may not have heard of or did not know about their origin. In this article we will talk about modern masters, whose works sell for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars at auctions at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips.
Aivazovsky "The Ninth Wave" . This is one of his most famous works, and he himself is one of the most famous artists- marine painters not only in our country, but throughout the world, and we want to start our list with him.
. “A talented person is talented in everything” - this can absolutely be said about the most famous Ukrainian in the whole world. A poet and writer - he was also an excellent painter and the painting “Katerina” is proof of this. The work illustrates one of the scenes poem of the same name, fully conveying Shevchenko’s feelings and experiences.
Yes, yes, Repin... For reference: the artist was born in the small town of Chuguev (Kharkov province), sufficiently knew the history of Ukraine, and when creating his famous work, as he himself said, he was in a “creative binge.” According to the recollections of his relatives, while working on the picture the whole family lived only as Cossacks: the children knew all the heroes of the stories about the Cossacks, they could recite by heart the lines from “Taras Bulba” and the text from the Cossacks’ letter to the Sultan.
The most famous and expensive Ukrainian artist of our time, whose work was auctioned at Phillips in 2013 for a record $186,200 for Ukrainian painting.
To date, Krivolap continues to hold the position of the most “expensive” contemporary artist Ukraine.
One of the founders of Ukrainian postmodernism glorified our country with his talented works on art exhibitions all over the world, his works take pride of place in the Museum contemporary art(NY). Goodbye Caravaggio sold for $97,179 in 2009.
His outrageous installations and projects brought him fame all over the world; his most popular and recognizable works involve the representation of famous people in the form of monkeys. The painting “It” brought him not only popularity, but also considerable profit - in 2008 it was sold for $70,000.
Master of "paintings with double meaning"continues to amaze with its artistic puzzles and optical illusions. The author's works have been presented at many exhibitions of contemporary painting in Europe and America. And let's be honest, it was difficult for us to single out one painting - they are simply mesmerizing!
The author continues to live and work in Kiev, and his paintings have been participating in exhibitions in Poland, Russia, France, Germany, Finland and other European cities for more than 20 years, and are presented in the collections of museums in Ukraine and in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna). His unusual works Laconically signed, but clearly revealing the talent of the master. “Job No. 5” is perhaps the most famous picture, but we advise you to review others, no less deep work artist.
The top lot at Sotheby's Contemporary East in 2014 became the most expensive Ukrainian painting at auction and went under the hammer for $31,400. You definitely won’t be able to tear yourself away - the painting seems to be “addicting.”
The modern Ukrainian artist is a key figure in the “Ukrainian New Wave”; he attracted the attention of the world community with his project “Ukrainian Money”. “Coloring Book” was auctioned at Phillips for $53.9 thousand. The subtle connoisseur of contemporary art wished to remain anonymous.
Our Top 10 are famous works that are worth a fortune, are in private collections and reputable art galleries, but thanks to modern printing capabilities, reproductions of masterpieces become available to everyone. In our catalogs you will find these images for printing on canvas, which were painted by modern Ukrainian artists. Discover the beauty of the works of our famous compatriots.
Provocative, vibrant and conceptual. What works of Ukrainian artists are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for?
Ivan Marchuk, Roman Minin, Mikhail Deyak. The Ukrainian art market has something to be proud of. From year to year, Ukrainian paintings are becoming increasingly popular among buyers at international auctions.
Maidan played an important role in the popularization of Ukrainian suchart. So, in the first year after the Revolution of Dignity, at Sotheby's auction in London, Ukrainian works were sold for a total of $101.8 thousand. Then, in 2014, Ukrainian artists for the first time took almost a third of all sales. And at the Phillips London auction - one One of the most famous auctions in the world - paintings by Ukrainian artists were sold for more than $360 thousand.
One of the most important shifts was the separation of Ukrainian art from Russian art into a special section of Contemporary East. Previously, Ukrainian lots were shown in the “Russian Sale” section.
In a comment by Espresso, co-owner of the auction house " Golden ratio“Mikhail Vasilenko explained that auctions are actually the only place where sales are recorded publicly and you can track who was sold and for how much.
Now in Ukraine there are more and more artists who sell well. And sometimes famous young authors even outperform the classics.
Tells about the most expensive works of Ukrainian artists and their authors.
Anatoly Krivolap
The most expensive paintings: "Horse. Night", $124 thousand and "Horse. Evening", $186.2 thousand.
The most successful contemporary Ukrainian artist is not only the most dear artist Ukraine, but also the first master whose works began to be sold abroad at such a price.
Anatoly Krivolap turned 70 this fall, but he doesn’t stop creating, he remains permanent participant regional and international exhibitions, and also takes part in performances.
Crookedpaw is a master of non-figurative painting and landscape. Its peculiarity is color combinations, which, according to him, are “nerve cells” and form sensation. He feels and reacts with colors, and it is by colors that an artist’s work is recognized.
But recognition did not immediately come to Crookedpaw. He searched for his own style for 20 years, but did not give up. Over 5 years - from 2010 to 2015 - 18 of his paintings were sold at international and Ukrainian auctions for an amount of almost $800 thousand.
In 2011, his work was auctioned by Phillips "Horse. Night" was sold for a record amount for Ukraine of $124 thousand.
And after 2 years he beat own record: his canvas "Horse. Evening" went under the hammer for $186 thousand.
Remaining restrained in his lifestyle, Anatoly Krivolap this year established his own prize for young artists worth $5 thousand. With these funds, artists will have the opportunity to visit best museums peace.
Arsen Savadov
The most expensive painting: "The Sadness of Cleopatra", $150 thousand (co-authored with Georgy Senchenko)
Arsen Savadov is perhaps the most scandalous Ukrainian artist. At the same time, critics call him one of the key figures of modern Ukrainian art.
His painting created in the late 80s "The Sorrow of Cleopatra" in collaboration with Georgy Senchenko, became the starting point of a new period in Ukrainian art. This particular painting is the author’s most expensive work. At the Paris Fair in 1987, it was purchased by the Galerie de France for $150 thousand.
There are different interpretations of this painting. Some see in it a prophecy and a premonition of the revolution in Ukraine, others see it as a reaction to historical events, and someone is simply absurd.
Savadov is a conceptual artist. Therefore, in his works the main thing is meanings, not aesthetic enjoyment. The artist’s most famous and at the same time most provocative projects are the “Donbass-Chocolate” and “Book of the Dead” series.
Vasily Tsagolov
The most expensive painting: "Who is Hearst Afraid of", $100 thousand.
Another Ukrainian artist whose works are quite popular. He became one of the first Kyiv artists who attracted the attention of Western collectors and curators.
In the 90s, he staged provocative performances throughout Europe. He shocked Ukraine with “Ukrainian X-files” and “Phantoms of Fear”.
Critics note the intellectuality and raw sensuality in his works.
Hero "Who's Hearst Afraid of?" became one of the most successful artists in the world today, Damien Hirst, whose work focuses on death and its philosophical rethinking.
Tsagolov’s work has become a kind of irony on the artist and a symbol of how commercial art dictates our lifestyle and tastes.
Alexander Roitburd
The most expensive painting: "Goodbye Caravaggio", $97.1 thousand.
Odessa resident Alexander Roitburd has been exhibiting his works in Europe and the USA since the late 80s. His paintings are stored not only in Ukrainian museums, but also in the New York Museum of Modern Art, in the museum in Durham (UK) and others.
Alexander Roitburd is considered one of the founders of Ukrainian postmodernism. He also takes part in various events and performances. His multi-genre works: painting, video, graphics, installation.
Job "Goodbye Caravaggio" was written after the theft from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art famous painting Caravaggio "The Kiss of Judas, or the Taking of Christ into custody."
At the Phillips auction, his canvas was purchased for $97.1 thousand.
Ilya Chichkan
The most expensive painting: "It", $79.5 thousand.
Chichkan is one of those Ukrainian artists whose works are most often exhibited abroad. He works in the genres of painting, video, installation and photography.
Ilya Chichkan was among those who, together with Savadov, founded the “Paris Commune” - art group, which opposed the Soviet legacy in culture and art.
Chichkan's works have been exhibited in leading galleries and museums in Europe, the USA and South America. He also took part in the San Paolo Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Prague Biennale, the European Manifesta Biennale and the like.
His most expensive work was a canvas "It", which was purchased in 2008 at a Phillips auction.
Oleg Tistol
The most expensive painting: "Coloring Book", $53.9 thousand.
Oleg Tistol is one of those Ukrainian artists whose works are most often sold at international auctions. A representative of Ukrainian neo-baroque, Tistol works in painting, photography, sculpture, and creates large-scale installations.
The artist is a representative of the Ukrainian “new wave”. His works combine national and Soviet symbols, rethinking myths and stereotypes.
Tistol's works have been repeatedly sold at prestigious auctions around the world - Sotheby's, Christies, Phillips, Bonham's.
In 2013, his painting "Coloring" At the Phillips auction, she not only set her own record for the artist, but also became one of the top lots of the auction. The work was in the top five most successful along with Andy Warhol's "True Love", Jacob Kessey's "Untitled", Banksy's "Do Not Punish Yourself" and Gavin Turk's "Pink Che".
"Coloring" is a painting from the series "Southern Coast of Crimea". The painting was exhibited at the 31st Ukrainian Fashion Week. Visitors to the event painted the work with markers.
"Ukrainian landscape".
1849.
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine, Soviet Union socialist republic, located in the southwest of the European part of the USSR. Area 601 thousand square kilometers. Population over 44 million people (1963), including 50% urban. 76.8% are Ukrainians, there are also Russians, Jews, Poles, Belarusians, etc.; 362 cities and 826 urban-type settlements (as of January 1, 1964). The capital is Kyiv.
The most important rivers: Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester, Northern Donets, Prut, the mouth of the Danube. Minerals: coal(Donbass, Dvovsko-Volynsky basin), brown coal (Dnieper basin), rock salt (Donbass), iron ore (Krivoy Rog, Kerch), manganese (Nikopol), peat (in the Polesie regions), oil (foothills of the Carpathians, Poltava region etc.), flammable gases, building materials, etc.
The most ancient finds human culture in the territory modern Ukraine belong to the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age(Tripillian culture). In the 4th-6th centuries, in the area between the Dnieper and Dniester rivers, an alliance of East Slavic tribes, the Ants, arose, whose main occupation was agriculture. Since the 9th century, the territory of modern Ukraine was part of the feudal state - Kievan Rus. By this time, the territory of Ukraine was inhabited by East Slavic tribes: Polyans, Buzhans, Tivertsy, Drevlyans, Northerners, etc. Economy and culture ancient Russian state in the 9th-12th centuries reached a significant level. The Old Russian nationality was the single root of three fraternal peoples: Great Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. In the 13th century, the lands of Southwestern Rus' were conquered by the Mongols. The formation of the Ukrainian nation took place in the 14th-15th centuries. Having begun the seizure of Ukrainian lands in the 14th century, the Polish gentry, after the Union of Lublin of 1569, established heavy feudal oppression over the Ukrainian people. The Ukrainian people waged a difficult struggle against aggression Crimean Tatars and Sultan's Turkey. The Zaporozhye Sich played a major role in the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people. The people's liberation war of 1648-54 under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the oppression of Polish feudal lords ended with the reunification of Ukraine with Russia (Pereyaslav Rada 1654). Poland held Right Bank Ukraine and Western Ukraine until the end of the 18th century, part of the latter then came under Austrian rule. Left Bank, as well as Sloboda Ukraine, were part of the Russian state. Transcarpathian Ukraine was under the yoke of Hungary. The invasion of Charles XII in 1708-09 caused a people's war in Ukraine against the Swedish invaders and the traitor hetman Mazepa. After a number of restrictions, the tsarist government in the 2nd half of the 18th century liquidated the autonomy of Ukraine and the Cossack organization - the New Sich. Cossack foreman received Russian nobility. In March 1821, it was organized in Tulchin Southern Society Decembrists led by P.I. Pestel. In December 1825 there was an uprising of the Chernigov regiment. In December 1845 - January 1846, a secret political organization arose in Kyiv - the Cyril and Methodius Society, the revolutionary democratic direction of which was headed by T. G. Shevchenko. In 1847, the tsarist government brutally dealt with revolutionary-minded members of society. In 1861, a peasant reform was carried out in Ukraine, which accelerated the development of capitalism. Has begun fast growth industry, especially coal in the Donbass and iron ore in Krivoy Rog. The development of the revolutionary democratic and labor movement in Ukraine in the 19th and 20th centuries was part of the all-Russian revolutionary movement. In 1875, the South Russian Workers' Union was organized in Odessa. In the 80-90s, Marxist circles appeared in Kyiv and Kharkov; at the beginning of the 20th century, social democratic organizations arose. The mass peasant movement of 1902 and the political strikes of 1903 in Ukraine played a role important role in preparation for the revolution of 1905-07, during which mass revolutionary uprisings of Ukrainian workers and peasants took place. During the First World War (1914-18), military operations took place on the western outskirts of Ukraine.
The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 liberated the Ukrainian people from social and national bourgeois-landowner oppression. The 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets [Kharkov December 11(24), 1917] elected the first Soviet government of Ukraine, which led the fight against the bourgeois-nationalist counter-revolutionary Ukrainian Central Rada, expelled from Kiev in January 1818. By February 1918, Soviet power had won almost the entire territory of Ukraine . During the years of foreign military intervention and civil war(1918-20) the Ukrainian people waged a patriotic war of liberation against the German occupiers, the Anglo-French interventionists and their henchmen in the person of Hetman Skoropadsky, the counter-revolutionary Directory, Denikin, Wrangel, and the Polish invaders. With the help of the working people of Russia, the enemy was expelled from Ukraine. In December 1920, a military-economic agreement was concluded between the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR. With the formation of the USSR on December 30, 1922, the Ukrainian SSR became part of it. During the years of the pre-war five-year plans, a powerful industry was created in Ukraine and the collective farm system was established. In November 1939, Western Ukraine, previously under Polish domination, reunited with the Ukrainian SSR. In August 1940, part of the territory of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, which had separated from Romania, were reunited with the Ukrainian SSR. During the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 The Ukrainian SSR was occupied by the Nazi invaders, who established a regime of brutal terror. The occupiers caused enormous damage to the population and national economy of the Ukrainian SSR. Together with other peoples of the USSR, Ukrainians fought heroically in the ranks of the Soviet Army, in partisan detachments. By mid-October 1944, the entire territory of the Ukrainian SSR was liberated from the Nazi occupiers. On June 29, according to an agreement between the USSR and Czechoslovakia, Transcarpathian Ukraine was reunited with the Ukrainian SSR. Thus, all Ukrainian lands were reunited into a single Ukrainian Soviet state. In 1954, the Soviet people solemnly celebrated the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. In February 1954, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a resolution on the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. In commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia and for the outstanding successes of the Ukrainian people in the state, economic and cultural construction of the Ukrainian SSR, she was awarded the Order of Lenin (May 22, 1954). Behind major successes in increasing the production of agricultural products, on November 5, 1958, Ukraine was awarded the second Order of Lenin.
In terms of economic importance, Ukraine ranks second (after the RSFSR) in the USSR.
Encyclopedic Dictionary. "Soviet Encyclopedia". 1964
Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov.
"Ukrainian landscape".
1860s.
Before the Tatar invasion, neither Great, nor Little, nor White Russia existed. Neither written sources nor folk memory no mention of them has been preserved. The expressions “Little” and “Great” Rus' begin to appear only in the 14th century, but neither ethnographic nor national importance Dont Have. They originate not on Russian territory, but beyond its borders and were unknown to the people for a long time. They arose in Constantinople, from where the Russian Church was governed, subordinate to the Patriarch of Constantinople. Until the Tatars destroyed Kyiv State, its entire territory was listed in Constantinople under the word “Rus” or “Russia”. The metropolitans appointed from there were called metropolitans of “all Rus'” and had their residence in Kyiv, the capital of the Russian state. This went on for three and a half centuries. But the state, devastated by the Tatars, began to become easy prey for foreign sovereigns. Piece by piece, Russian territory fell into the hands of the Poles and Lithuanians. Galicia was captured first. Then the practice was established in Constantinople to call this Russian territory, which had fallen under Polish rule, Little Russia or Little Russia. When, following the Poles, the Lithuanian princes began to take away the lands of Southwestern Rus' one after another, these lands in Constantinople, like Galicia, received the name Little Rus'. This term, which is so disliked by Ukrainian separatists these days, who attribute its origin to the “Katsaps,” was invented not by the Russians, but by the Greeks and was generated not by the life of the country, not by the state, but by the church. But also in political terms, it began to be used for the first time not within Moscow, but within the Ukrainian borders.
Nikolay Ulyanov. "Russian and Great Russian". “Miracles and Adventures” No. 7 2005.
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.
"Ukrainian night".
1876.
By the time Mazepa was elected hetman, Left Bank Ukraine had the following administrative-territorial division and internal governance. It was divided into ten regiments: Gadyachsky, Kyiv, Lubensky, Mirgorodsky, Nezhinsky, Pereyaslavsky, Poltava, Prilukiy, Starodubsky, Chernigovsky. These administrative-territorial entities, in turn, were divided into hundreds (up to about 20 in each regiment), hundreds were divided into kurens, and the latter united several villages.
The administration of Ukraine was carried out by a hetman, whose election was confirmed by a royal charter. Not only administrative and military power was concentrated in his hands, but also the highest judicial power: without his sanction the death penalty was not accomplished. Under the hetman, there was a general foreman, consisting of a general convoy, who was in charge of all the artillery, a general judge, who was in charge of the general court, a general assistant, who was in charge of financial affairs, a general clerk, who was in charge of the office, two general captains-inspectors of the army and the hetman's adjutants; General Cornet and General Bunchuk were endowed with approximately the same functions. The general foreman also constituted the outer layer of the feudal class - for example, Mazepa owned 100 thousand peasants in Ukraine and 20 thousand in the neighboring counties of Russia.
B. Litvak. "Hetman-villain."
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.
"Evening in Ukraine."
1878.
The morning was sunny. The first snow fell overnight. It became winter and, as often happens in Ukraine, suddenly there was a breath of spring through the winter. It’s frosty in the shade, but it melts in the sun. Sparrows chirp, doves coo on the sunny eel of golden church domes. In the gardens, cherry and apple trees, covered with frost, stand white as if in spring bloom. And under the snow the white walls of the Cossack huts seem dark, and the dirty Jewish houses seem even dirtier. (Notes of S.I. Muravyov-Apostol).
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.
"Ukraine".
1879.
While passing through Vinnitsa, he noticed that Ukrainian children never wear glasses, and their teeth do not require the services of dentists, and this impressed the Fuhrer very much. strong impression. He pointed out to Martin Bormann:
Take up this issue... for the sake of the future of the German nation! Tall, blond, blue-eyed children should be taken from their parents to be raised in the Nazi spirit.
The helpful Bormann, agreeing with Hitler, immediately came up with the theory that the Ukrainians were an offshoot of Aryan tribes related to the ancient Germans. Heinrich Himmler's headquarters these days was located near Zhitomir, Himmler's armored car ran daily between Vinnitsa and Zhitomir, Hitler did not forget to remind the Reichsführer SS:
Heinrich, it’s time to think about selective selection of Slavic children to replenish the manpower reserves of our Reich, because Ukrainians outwardly represent excellent eugenic material...
Valentin Pikul. "Square of Fallen Fighters."
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.
"The head of a Ukrainian peasant in a straw hat."
1890-1895.
Ukrainians (self-name), people in the USSR. Number 42,347 thousand people, the main population of the Ukrainian SSR (36,489 thousand people). They also live in other union republics, including the RSFSR (3,658 thousand people), the Kazakh SSR (898 thousand people), the Moldavian SSR (561 thousand people), the BSSR (231 thousand people), the Kirghiz SSR (109 thousand people), the Uzbek SSR (114 thousand people). Outside the USSR they live in Poland (300 thousand people), Czechoslovakia (47 thousand people), Romania (55 thousand people), Yugoslavia (36 thousand people), as well as in Canada (530 thousand people), USA (500 thousand people), Argentina (100 thousand people), Brazil (50 thousand people), Australia (20 thousand people), Paraguay (10 thousand people), Uruguay (5 thousand people). Total number 45.15 million people.
They speak Ukrainian. Writing since the 14th century based on the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian is also widespread in Western Ukraine Polish languages. Ukrainian believers are mostly Orthodox, some are Catholic. Ukrainians, together with closely related Russians and Belarusians, belong to Eastern Slavs. In Polesie there are subethnic groups of Litvins and Poleschuks, and in the Carpathians - Hutsuls, Boykos, and Lemkos.
The formation of the Ukrainian nationality took place on the basis of part of the East Slavic population, which was previously part of a single ancient Russian state (9-12 centuries).
In the 16th century, Ukrainian (the so-called Old Ukrainian) developed book language. On the basis of the Middle Dnieper dialects at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the modern Ukrainian (new Ukrainian) literary language was formed.
The name "Ukraine" was used to designate various southern and southwestern parts of ancient Russian lands in the meaning of "edge" back in the 12th-13th centuries. Subsequently (by the 18th century) this term in the meaning of “kraina”, i.e. country, was fixed in official documents and became widespread in the masses and became the basis for the ethnonym of the Ukrainian people.
Along with the ethnonyms that were originally used in relation to their southeastern group - “Ukrainians”, “Cossacks”, “Cossack people”, in the 15th-17th centuries (in Western Ukraine until the 19th century) the self-name “Russians” (“Russians”) was preserved (“ Rusini"). In the 16th and 17th centuries, in official documents of Russia, Ukrainians were often called “Cherkasy”; later, in pre-revolutionary time, - mainly “Little Russians”, “Little Russians” or “South Russians”.
Food varied greatly among different segments of the population. The basis of the diet was vegetable and flour foods (borscht, dumplings, various yushkas), porridge (especially millet and buckwheat); dumplings, dumplings with garlic, lemishka, noodles, jelly, etc. Fish, including salted fish, occupied a significant place in the food. Meat food was available to the peasantry only on holidays. The most popular were pork and lard. Numerous poppy cakes, cakes, knishes, and bagels were baked from flour with the addition of poppy seeds and honey. Drinks such as uzvar, varenukha, and sirivets were common. The most common ritual dishes were porridges - kutya and kolyvo with honey.
Like Russians and Belarusians, in public life Ukrainian villages until the end of the 19th century, despite the development of capitalism, vestiges of serfdom and patriarchal relations, a significant place was occupied by the neighboring community - the community. Many traditional collective forms of labor (cleaning, supryaga - similar to Russian pomochas and "parubochi hromada" - associations of unmarried guys) and recreation (vechornitsy t dosvitki, New Year's carols and shchedrovki, etc.) were characteristic.
"Peoples of the World". Moscow, “Soviet Encyclopedia”. 1988
Vasily Sternberg.
"Fair in Ukraine".
We intended to read a little on the plane, but fell asleep instantly. And when we woke up, the plane was already flying over the fields of Ukraine, as fertile and flat as our Midwest. Beneath us lay the endless fields of the gigantic granary of Europe, the promised land, yellowing with wheat and rye, harvested here and there, harvested somewhere else. There was no hill or elevation anywhere. The field stretched to the very horizon, flat and rounded. And along the valley, rivers and streams twisted and zigzagged.
Near the villages where the battles took place, trenches, ditches and crevices ran in zigzags. Some houses stood without roofs, and in some places the black patches of burnt houses could be seen.
There seemed to be no end to this plain. But finally, we flew up to the Dnieper and saw Kyiv, which stood above the river on a hill, the only hill for many kilometers around. We flew over the destroyed city and landed in the surrounding area.
Everyone assured us that outside of Moscow everything would be completely different, that there would be no such severity and tension there. And indeed. Ukrainians from the local VOX met us right on the airfield. They smiled all the time. They were more cheerful and calmer than the people we met in Moscow. There was more openness and cordiality. The men - almost all - are large blondes with gray eyes. A car was waiting for us to take us to Kyiv.
"Ukrainian".
1883.
Poltava Regional Art Museum named after. Nikolai Yaroshenko, Poltava.
The Shevchenko-1 collective farm was never one of the best, because the land was not the best, but before the war it was a quite prosperous village with three hundred and sixty-two houses, where 362 families lived. In general, things were going well for them.
After the Germans, there were eight houses left in the village, and even these had their roofs burned. People were scattered, many of them died, men went into the forests as partisans, and God only knows how the children took care of themselves.
But after the war, people returned to the village. New houses grew, and since it was harvest time, houses were built before and after work, even at night by the light of lanterns. To build their little houses, men and women worked together. Everyone built it the same way: first one room and lived in it until another was built. In winter in Ukraine it is very cold, and houses are built in this way: the walls are made of hewn logs, fixed at the corners. Shingles are nailed to the logs, and a thick layer of plaster is applied to it on the inside and outside to protect it from frost.
The house has a canopy that serves as a storage room and hallway at the same time. From here you get to the kitchen, a plastered and whitewashed room with a brick stove and a hearth for cooking. The hearth itself is four feet off the floor, and this is where the bread is baked—smooth, dark loaves of very tasty Ukrainian bread.
Off the kitchen is a family room with a dining table and decorations on the walls. This is a living room with paper flowers, icons and photographs of the murdered. And on the walls are medals of soldiers from this family. The walls are white, and the windows have shutters, which, if closed, will also protect against winter frost.
From this room you can access a bedroom - one or two, depending on the size of the family. Due to difficulties with bed linen the beds are not covered with anything: rugs, sheep skin- anything, as long as it’s warm. Ukrainians are very clean, and their homes are perfectly clean.
We were always convinced that on collective farms people live in barracks. It is not true. Each family has its own house, garden, flower garden, large vegetable garden and apiary. The area of such a plot is about an acre. Since the Germans cut down all the fruit trees, young apple, pear and cherry trees were planted.
John Steinbeck. "Russian Diary".
"Ukrainian girl".
1879.
Kyiv National Museum Russian art, Kyiv.
I need to talk about breakfast in detail, since I have never seen anything like it in the world. To begin with - a glass of vodka, then everyone was served scrambled eggs of four eggs, two huge fried fish and three glasses of milk; after that a dish of pickles, and a glass of homemade cherry liqueur, and black bread with butter; then a full cup of honey with two glasses of milk and, finally, another glass of vodka. It sounds, of course, incredible that we ate all this for breakfast, but we really ate it, everything was very tasty, although later our stomachs were full and we did not feel very good.
John Steinbeck. "Russian Diary".
Vladimir Orlovsky.
"View in Ukraine".
1883.
The colonel himself is from Kyiv, and he has light blue eyes, like most Ukrainians. He was fifty, and his son was killed near Leningrad.
John Steinbeck. "Russian Diary".
Vladimir Orlovsky.
"Ukrainian landscape".
Holy Rus'... We often pronounce this familiar phrase as a matter of course, without thinking - why, exactly? Have you ever heard, say, about the saints of Kazakhstan, Estonia, America, France, Iraq, China, Madagascar, Australia?.. You can continue this series indefinitely without finding a convincing explanation mysterious phenomenon. Agree, it would never even occur to us to doubt the deeply organic connection between the two short words, their enduring, some kind of tectonic inviolability.
Just as, having witnessed something that was done, in our opinion, not humanly, we habitually lament: somehow not in Russian This. Agree, it would never even occur to us to say about something similar, that it is somehow not Kyrgyz, not Latvian, not Uruguayan... I recently received an interesting note in one classroom: “To the collection of your examples of Russianness. In Ukraine they say (in the imperative mood): “I speak Russian to you..."».
Vladimir Irzabekov. "Secrets of the Russian word."
Ilya Efimovich Repin.
"Ukrainian peasant."
1880.
The Ukrainian was shipwrecked. Lived for two years on a desert island. Suddenly a boat approaches, with a beautiful woman in it.
Man, come here! I'll give you what you've wanted for two years.
The Ukrainian rushes into the water and swims towards her.
Vareniki! Vareniki!
Yury Nikulin. "Anecdotes from Nikulin."
Ilya Efimovich Repin.
"Two Ukrainian peasants."
1880.
I talked with completely benevolent residents of Kiev, who, by the way, would still like to live with us in the same state, but, nevertheless, they believe that they are “Ukrainians”, because this is not the first generation engaged in Ukrainization. They believe that Ukrainians are a different people, but still we would be very happy in one state. The people of Kiev are quite friendly. I told them: don’t be offended by me, but what kind of people are you? Look here. I can speak language a little clumsily, but reading and listening comprehension will not be clumsy, that’s all. So, if I move to Kyiv and live there for five years, then they will no longer distinguish me, and if you live in Moscow for five years, then they will no longer distinguish you in Moscow. But a Siberian will be visible in Moscow even in ten years: he has more features, more differences than a Muscovite and a Kievite. This is an example from my private conversation, not a scientific debate. And they couldn't object to me. We are really similar. In a conversation, everyone can speak their own language so as not to break or make the other laugh. I can talk to a Galician. I had a long polemic in 1991 with Galicians on Lvov Street, but there was no bloodshed. Moreover, they spoke not just Ukrainian, they spoke a very unique Galician dialect. But I understood everything, and I spoke as always, like a Muscovite. And everything was fine, we understood each other. But you can’t talk to a Pole like that anymore.
Vladimir Makhnach. “What is a people (ethnic group, nation).” Moscow, 2006.
Ilya Efimovich Repin.
"Ukrainian hut".
1880.
Ukrainians began to live in grand style
Scientists of Kyiv national university technology and design conducted anthropometric studies among residents of Ukraine. Their goal is quite pragmatic: to determine the direction of the country’s light industry in the coming years, to find out which sizes of clothes and shoes will become the most popular. This is the first time such a survey has been carried out in the last quarter of a century.
Experts have come to the conclusion: the population of Ukraine has grown by 8-10 cm, and residents of the northern part of the country have grown more than the “southerners”. On average, the size of running shoes increased by two numbers for both men and women. At the same time, the Ukrainians became plump and stooped. Flat feet, caused by a sedentary lifestyle, as well as changes in social conditions, have noticeably spread.
“Miracles and Adventures” No. 3 2005.
Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky.
"Evening in Ukraine."
1901.
"Moonlit Night in Ukraine."
Painting from the estate of A. N. Kuropatkin Sheshurino.
Nikolai Efimovich Rachkov.
"Ukrainian girl."
Second half of the 19th century.
Nikolay Pymonenko.
"Ukrainian night".
1905.
Nikolay Pymonenko.
"Harvest in Ukraine."
"Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians."
Engravings of the 19th century.
Ukraine has long been famous for its artists. Taras Shevchenko, Ilya Repin, Kazimir Malevich... - list outstanding masters brushes and palettes can go on for a long time. And who is the pride of our country? visual arts Today? Here is a list of the 10 highest paid (read: most talented) contemporary Ukrainian artists.
1. Anatoly Krivolap
Today he is one of the most successful and best-selling Ukrainian artists. Fans and collectors are acquiring his works at an incredible rate (some already have more than 50 works). Krivolap's paintings are sold at crazy prices at the world's leading auctions and are exhibited in almost all Ukrainian museums.
Anatoly Krivolap was always worried about the question of how to paint a picture with pure colors and so that they match perfectly. He has been working on this problem since the 1970s. Incredible warm sunsets, mysterious silhouettes of people and animals, houses and shadows of trees - all this miraculously appeared from under his brush.
Since the 1990s, Krivolap has become one of the most expensive Ukrainian artists. The last successfully sold work is “Night. Horse" ($124,343) - entered the TOP 10 most expensive daily lots by Phillips de Pury & Co. Prices for his works are rising every year, and experts say that in five years his paintings could cost about half a million dollars.
A. Krivolap. From the series "Ukrainian motive"
A. Krivolap. "Horse. Evening"
A. Krivolan. "Horse. Night"
2. Alexander Roitburd
Alexander Roitburd participated in more than a hundred exhibitions and art projects. His works are presented in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, in art museums in Ukraine, Russia, the USA, Slovenia, and in many public and private collections. In addition, Roitburd has participated in the Venice Biennale and Documenta. The most famous works: “Geisha” ($20,641), “Goodbye Caravaggio” ($97,179) and “Flight into Egypt” ($57,700).
A. Roitburd, "Geisha"
A. Roitburd, "Self-portrait"
3. Oleg Tistol
Oleg Tistol is a key figure in the Ukrainian New Wave. He represented Ukraine at the Sao Paulo Biennale (1994) and the 49th Venice Biennale (2001).
Oleg Tistol was the only one who managed to make Ukrainian National symbols interesting and understandable in the West: both native hryvnias (the “Ukrainian Money” project) and Crimean palm trees (the “U. Be. Ka” project). The most famous works: “Lamp” ($26,225), “Gurzuf” ($12,300) and “Stranger No. 17” ($20,000).
O. Tistol, "The Third Rome"
O. Tistol, "Roksolana"
O. Tistol, "Gurzuf"
4.Ilya Chichkan
Ilya Chichkan is one of the most famous, exhibited, highly paid Ukrainian artists. Works in different types fine arts: painting, photography, installation, video. He filmed rabbits after injecting them with LSD, photographed the mentally ill and mutant children, and drew A.S. as monkeys. Pushkin and the Pope. Once the artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of Joseph Kobzon. At first he refused, but then changed his mind. Having finished the work, Chichkan wrote the title on the back: “Kobzon oh...yy,” which the singer really liked.
Ilya Chichkan’s works have been exhibited in leading galleries and museums in Europe, the USA and South America, as well as at prestigious international forums and festivals of contemporary art: the Biennale in Sao Paulo (1996), Johannesburg (1997), Prague (2003), Belgrade (2004) , at the European Biennale Manifesta (2004), as well as the Venice Biennale (2009). The most famous works: “From the Life of Insects” ($24,700) and “Heavyweight Curator” ($8146).
I. Chichkan, "Geisha"
I. Chichkan, "Pushkin"
Ukrainian art is a new powerful impetus in the world of culture. The works of our artists are popular outside their homeland. We present to your attention a selection of those Ukrainian artists who are known and respected in the world.
Alexander Roitburd
Alexander Roitburd - multifaceted personality, one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian artists in the whole world. He was born in 1964 in Odessa. Now he is engaged not only in painting, but also in photography, video, and graphics.
His creations are even exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is his painting “Farewell, Caravaggio” that is considered the most expensive (97 thousand dollars) Ukrainian work of art.
Alexander Roitburd. Goodbye Caravaggio
Vasily Tsagolov
Another famous and respected Ukrainian artist all over the world is Vasily Tsagolov. He was born in Russia, but student years he lives and works in Kyiv.
One of his works, Office Love 2, was sold at auction by Phillips de Pury & Company in early June 2009 for $53,600.
He creates his masterpieces by combining mythology with popular culture, on the basic principles of modern postmodernism.
Vasily Tsagolov. Evander Holyfield - Van Gogh randomly
Alexander Gnilitsky
This Ukrainian artist, unfortunately, died in 2009. But he managed to present the culture of Ukraine at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Also, his paintings were exhibited in art galleries in Ukraine, Russia, Croatia, USA, France, Norway, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland.
Gnilitsky’s masterpieces are valued at a high price; for example, “Sky. Olegovskaya” was sold for $41,250.
Alexander Gnilitsky. Reflection in the dome
Yuri Senchenko
Yuri Senchenko is rightfully considered the patriarch of Ukrainian art. True, Senchenko mostly worked in tandem with Arsen Savadov. It is their common painting “The Sorrow of Cleopatra” that is considered to be the starting point of new Ukrainian art.
His paintings were seen by art connoisseurs in Chicago, New York, Munich, Edinburgh, Moscow and many other foreign cities.
Yuri Senchenko, Arsen Savadov. Cleopatra's Sorrow
Arsen Savadov
Arsen Savadov, a Ukrainian artist, who at one time was actively interested in the KGB. On the territory of art, he now actively represents Ukrainian culture in Europe and America.
The artist tries to combine postmodernism with baroque culture in his paintings.
The artist’s greatest fame came from his provocative paintings “Donbass Chocolate” and “Book of the Dead.”
Arsen Savadov. Toys
Oleg Tistol
Continuing the list of world-famous Ukrainian artists, we must not forget about Oleg Tistol.
Among all Ukrainian artists, he is qualitatively different in his manner of painting, which is probably why he is so respected in Europe.
Among his outstanding works are: “Project of Ukrainian money. Roksolana”, “TV + Realism”, “U.Be. Ka”.
One of the most important projects in which Tistol participated is the 2014 exhibition “I am a Drop in the Ocean” at the Künstlerhaus Museum in Vienna.
Oleg Tistol. Ukrainian money project. Roksolana
Ilya Chichkan
Ilya Chichkan - bright representative new wave of Ukrainian art. His works are often exhibited in Ukrainian galleries.
His works are highly valued in Europe. One of his paintings, “It,” was sold in 2007 for $70,000.
Ilya Chichkan. From the life of insects
Ivan Marchuk
This artist is called a modern Ukrainian genius of art. The British even included him in the list of “100 modern geniuses” in 2007, in which, by the way, he is the only Ukrainian.
It was Ivan Marchuk who introduced a new method of drawing into art, which critics call plenticism.
Ivan Marchuk. Portrait of B. Mortar
Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov is the only Ukrainian artist who exhibited at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011). He is a member of the German Academy of Arts, lecturer Harvard University, and his works are in such famous collections as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Munich Pinakothek Art Nouveau, Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Mikhailov mainly became famous for photography, although he also draws. In particular, Mikhailov at one time shocked Ukrainians with paintings of naked men.
Boris Mikhailov. Naked Mikhailov
Maxim Mamsikov
His paintings, in addition to Ukraine, were seen by France, Germany and Russia. For some reason, Mamsikov’s creativity is not as highly valued in his homeland as, for example, in France.
In 2009, at an auction by Phillips de Pury & Company, his " Sea battle"Bought for 35 thousand dollars.
Maxim Mamsikov. Untitled
Oksana Mas
Famous Odessa artist working in various genres. For example, Ukrainians could see her work “Virgin Mary” right on the street, which she compiled from 15 thousand Easter eggs.
Over the past two years, the artist has had a dozen foreign exhibitions, including in Zurich, Paris, London and Moscow.
At Sotheby's auction in 2009, one of Mas's paintings was bought for 55.2 thousand dollars.
Oksana Mas. Altar of Nations
Tiberius Silvasi
The painter Tiberiy Silvashi is a bright representative of Ukrainian contemporary art. He constantly experiments and displays his results to the public.
Contemporaries consider Silvashy to be the leader of the school of Ukrainian abstractionists.
Tiberius Silvasi. Display
Gritsya Erde
A very young, very talented and very ambitious girl who creates mainly fantasy collages with subtext, but also does graphics and drawing. Right now Gritsya Erde is holding her own exhibition in Berlin, Germany.
The young artist also makes covers and illustrations for books and albums of Ukrainian singers.
Gritsya Erde. Horror inspires
Oleg Golosiy
This artist did not have time to be an artist of independent Ukraine for long, because in 1993 he died at the age of 28. But for my short life he managed to take part in exhibitions in England, Germany, France, and Russia.
Anatoly Krivolap
The most expensive work Anatoly Krivolap's "Horse. Evening" was sold at Phillips London on June 28, 2013 for $186,000.
The artist mainly paints landscapes and experiments with color. He recently opened two personal exhibitions in Kyiv in the galleries "Triptych ART" and Mironova Gallery.
Anatoly Krivolap. Evening
Victor Sidorenko
Bright and expressive - this is what his works are called. Viktor Sidorenko - candidate of art history and professor of Kharkov state academy design and arts, as well as the founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
His last painting, “Untitled,” from the series Reflection into the unknown, was sold at a British auction for $32,800.
Victor Sidorenko. Energy flow
Nikita Kadan
Another young, but very talented and world-famous Ukrainian artist.
Nikita Kadan only for last years There were 4 personal exhibitions, of which only one was held in Ukraine. In addition, he has about 50 group exhibitions abroad. Even New York knows his name.
Nikita Kadan. The Rape of Europa.
Vinnie Reunov
Konstantin "Vinny" Reunov was born and spent his childhood in Ukraine. Then he started moving constantly. But still he returned to his homeland.
His canvases hang even in the UK, in the Saatchi Gallery. Last summer, Vinny presented the project “Made in Ukraine” at the Kyiv gallery “Karas”.
Vinnie Reunov. THIS CULTURAL NOVELTY WILL CHANGE THE WAY HIGH-EXCLUSIVE ART IS PRESENTED TO MASS AUDIENCE
Andrey Sagaidakovsky
Shy but talented Lviv artist. Once upon a time, he painted on canvas like everyone else, knowing where to get it for next to nothing. But then the point closed. Sagaidakovsky could not come to terms with this, because the love of art flows in his blood. Then he began to paint on carpets and mats.
It was this drawing technique that brought Mr. Andrey fame throughout the world.
Andrey Sagaidakovsky. Conversations
Ivan Semesyuk
Ivan Semesyuk is the first artist in Ukraine who began painting in the “redneck art” style. And immediately his paintings scattered throughout Ukraine and the world.
He became the chairman of the union of free artists "Will or Death".
His works have participated in more than 80 exhibitions. Semesyuk's paintings were exhibited in France, Norway, Poland, and Russia.
Ivan Semesyuk. Portrait of Nestor Makhno
Vlada Ralko
Vlada Ralko is an expressive Ukrainian artist, without whose works not a single exhibition in Ukraine is complete.
Her creations have their own specific style and charm. They are distinguished by their bright, “stable” color. Vlada Ralko tries to show her feelings and thoughts about the world around her through paintings.
Vlad Ralko. Inside
Nikolay Matsenko
Nikolay Matsenko is an artist who never forgets his roots. He was born in Ivano-Frankivsk region. All his works are imbued with nationality and childhood memories. Matsenko mainly makes carpets and coats of arms.
The artist claims that thanks to coats of arms he realizes himself, and carpets are his memories from childhood.
Nikolay Matsenko. Not yet... (Sketch of the Great Coat of Arms)
Alexander Voytovych
Sasha Voitovich is a real expert feminine nature, it is not without reason that the main theme of his works is a woman and her body.
The Lviv artist has repeatedly exhibited not only at group foreign exhibitions, but also at personal ones. In particular, in Hungary and several cities in Spain.
And in 2009 he opened his own gallery.
Alexander Voytovych. Summer Time
Igor Gusev
Once upon a time, back in the early 90s, Odessa artist Igor Gusev drew illustrations for magazines, zodiac signs and naked girls.
But with the end of the “hard” years, the artist’s work also changed. It became serious and balanced. For example, in 2013, at the Dymchuk Gallery, Gusev presented his paintings with retro images.
In 2012, at a London auction, Igor Gusev’s painting “Club 27 Emmys” was sold for $19,500.
Igor Gusev. Snow simulator. inner voice
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