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Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1909 - 1997)
Amid the intense battles that broke out approximately 50 miles northwest of Kyiv on February 25 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned.
It is not yet confirmed how many pieces in the museum’s holdings survive, but the destroyed artifacts reportedly include roughly 25 works by the celebrated Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko, who died in 1997 at the age of 88. Beloved for her saturated gouaches and watercolors on paper, Prymachenko was known to transform cultural motifs (yellow suns and graphic, stencil-like flowers) into vivid and wildly imagined narratives, in which elephants longed to be sailors, horses traveled to outer space, and villagers hijacked giant serpents.
Maria Prymachenko was born in 1908 close to Ivaniv, in the village of Bolotyna. Her father was a craftsman and carpenter; from her mother and grandmother, she learned Ukrainian arts of embroidery and hand-painting Easter eggs. From an early age, with no formal fine art training, Prymachenko began to create a way of working that stemmed from her encounters in forests and wildflower fields, surrounded by animals. (source)
I just wanted to add
May I Give This Ukrainian Bread To All People In This Big Wide World (1982) and
May That Nuclear War Be Cursed! (1978)
Oil paintings by Giovanni Sanesi (Italy, 1992):
I love contemporary figurative art in general, but his paintings just have something more to them that resonates so much with how I feel. In his series inspired by the events of the russo-ukrainian war, he documents this dramatic event through youth’s dreamy eyes, as if it was almost a dream, something that could never truly happen.
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<< When I think of the focus that I am dedicating to the theme of my painting (documenting the new world that has ben emerging from the last 10 years and especially the feeling of the new post-pandemic generations) I focused on the issues such as the new sensitivity to the planet. A new awareness on gender identity but above all a new awareness of our generation which is that of interconnection: I think this is the key word of the future. But I never thought that the new generations would clash with the old ones on the vision of the world. There is a generation that feels solidarity and part of the same world, and one that wants to define the world by drawing boundaries with prevarication to keep glories of the past… the result is that the world is not yet free from conflict of power, from factions, repression, fake news… I never thought that the word war (in all its forms) could knock on the door and become part of the heredity of ukrainian and european children. I never thought I’d wonder what senseless pain means. This is not the time to be silent out of protest or indifference, it is time to show what it means to testify that we are above all this! And it is great to see that the world is responding. each with his hands is responsible for a slice of peace. >>
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Oil paintings by Giovanni Sanesi (Italy, 1992):
I love contemporary figurative art in general, but his paintings just have something more to them that resonates so much with how I feel. In his series inspired by the events of the russo-ukrainian war, he documents this dramatic event through youth’s dreamy eyes, as if it was almost a dream, something that could never truly happen.
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Oil paintings by Giovanni Sanesi (Italy, 1992):
I love contemporary figurative art in general, but his paintings just have something more to them that resonates so much with how I feel. Giovanni manages to capture the instant, the feeling, the sensation of a moment better than photographs do, he gives us a quick, rough, imprecise but bright glimpse inside contemporary youth’s daily emotions.
The artist himself, looking just like one of this artworks:
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