Folk toy as a phenomenon of culture The folk toy is first of all a phenomenon of culture. It holds in itself the information of a cultural environment of, that is such an environment, which is not natural, but was formed by a human being around himself according to...
Fedir Krychevsky is an outstanding representative of Ukrainian artistic culture of the twentieth century. His name may be listed alongside with the prominent masters of European national schools of modern times. Krychevsky is part and parcel of the Ukraine as...
The career of artist Mykhailo Zhuk evolved during the dynamic period at the turn of the century and spanned both pre revolutionary and contemporary Ukrainian art. A painter, book illustrator, graphic artist, and designer of ceramics, Zhuk left behind an impressive...
The Constructivist idea fell on fertile soil in Ukraine – especially in Kharkiv, the new capital after the Revolution. Given the rich cultural life of that city that should not come as a surprise. In 1919, for example, Vasyl Yermylov and Bernard Kratko founded...
Implicit in the paradigm of Western modernism is the notion that the avant-garde movement is predicated on a radical reversal or insistent deviation from established artistic canon or norms. If one adopts this Western historicist view-one that presupposes some kind of...
Mykola Nedilko, the son of Semen Nedilko and Sophia nee Murashko, was born on Nov. 23, 1902 in the village of Ushchenivka on the left bank of the Dnipro, in northeastern Ukraine. His father, a physician and director of the village hospital, hoped that his son would...
