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Ivan Prykhodko - a representative of naive art, a Ukrainian artist, is rightly considered an artist of the people by some experts and admirers of folk art.

Master of decorative painting, folk toys, and sculpture. Carves from wood and paints guardian angels, birds, and various creatures.

On the canvas, he paints fabulous animals of all rainbow colors.

Ivan Prykhodko's artistic talent is also manifested in the manufacture of traditional moving and sound toys, decorative sculptures of small forms, and figurative utensils.

Hanna Sobachko-Shostak is a Ukrainian master of decorative painting. It is a golden page in the history of Ukrainian art.

All her life the artist painted only flowers. She created thousands of them. And none of them happened again. Each was different in its color melody, in form. In some compositions, flower petals go unnoticed in birds, fish, and sometimes in the image of people. All these images are woven together. This dates back to the ancient Slavic folk traditions of teratological ornaments, in which the motifs of living beings and plants merged into one composition. "The works of Anna Sobachko are a golden page in the history of Ukrainian art," said Mykhailo Stelmakh, a well-known Ukrainian writer and admirer of folk art. The artist's paintings, marked by the high culture of form, characteristic of folk art, are of great historical and aesthetic value and can be the subject of serious and careful study.

In 1937 her works were exhibited in Paris, for two years in New York. And the artist Henri Matisse praised the work of the Ukrainian woman.

Ivan-Valentin Zadorozhny - outstanding master of painting, monumental forms of image, creator of posters, art projects.

Zadorozhny worked in the styles of realism and neo-folklore. The works are deeply national, marked by the search for means of expression, the establishment of poetic ethno-ideals, original composition, perfect drawing, and harmony of colors. However, he was persecuted for innovations.

"If we describe Zadrorozhny as an artist, we must say that he was universal.

In the arsenal of means of expression, he found and took for himself that he succeeded at a high artistic level in everything he created.

He mastered many techniques, except painting, which he knew about and worked in.

This includes relief on concrete, stained glass, tapestry, and many others. Moreover, he was a strong character, a nonconformist by nature.

He always went against the system and was not afraid to express his thoughts aloud. Even his opponents respected him for that," says artist Oleksiy Hryhorov.

Vasyl Korchynsky - Ukrainian artist, graphic artist, master of vytynanka.

"If a person is not absorbed in the material world, he can fill himself with a spiritual, creative world…"

And for 40 years of creativity, Vasily created several thousands of vytynankas. For example, he illustrated "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky (12 works) with them, some poems of the Renaissance, Ukrainian folk songs, and various domestic scenes; there is also an erotic vytynanka triptych: "He", "She" and "Birth" (although there is no place for naturalism in vytynanka).

He also paved his own path in painting.
In particular, for the project "Ukraine: from Trypillia to the present" he created a series of large paintings: "Maidan. Revolution of Dignity", "Abandoned Farm", "Scythian Steppe", "Grace", "Kozak Mamai", "Milky Way", "Kruty. Mother's apples"…

Alexander Saenko - Ukrainian artist, decorator.

He was born in the Chernihiv region; he lost his hearing and speech forever in childhood after the disease.

Oleksandr Ferapontovych is an innovator in using straw for highly artistic household items and furniture.

He proved that straw is quite suitable for interior design and for creating generalized monumental images of folk heroes and favorite writers.

Saenko's most famous work is the large decorative painting "Kozak Mamai".

In 1999, the artist was recognized at the international level: by the decision of the General Conference of UNESCO, his name was included in the official list of outstanding figures of world culture.

Julia Gushul - ukrainian artist and ceramist

Her art is identified as naive painting.
But Yulia Gushul's "naivety" is a deep philosophy. It is color signs and codes of deep history, and it is subconscious connections with something ancient, powerful, and natural.

Gushul's paintings are quite extraordinary: extraordinary both in plot and color.
Here are bizarre animals such as tulip fish, low fish sun, or cat-bedside tables and very simple, at first glance, everyday objects, such as a jar or cactus, but depicted in a rather unusual manner.

According to the artist, she does not have to think long about what images to create.

After all, they come out of it somehow on their own. "Here I draw a line," says the master, "and somehow by themselves appear hitherto unseen creatures."

Moreover, the artist's colors are attractive. The colors in her works are incredibly bright and cheerful.

Olexandra Exter - Ukrainian artist, avant-garde, designer, graphic artist, film and theater artist.

A prominent representative of European cubism and futurism, the Ukrainian avant-garde, one of the founders of the Art Deco style.

She was a friend of Malevych, and he even let her into his studio and listened to her advice.

People told about her that she was a kind of combination of European and Ukrainian culture. In her house, you could see Ukrainian embroidery on the walls among the paintings of Picasso and Braque, on the floor - Ukrainian carpet, clay pots were served on the table, and bright majolica plates with dumplings.

Exter went further than the French did.

She became an abstractionist, which her Parisian friends Picasso, Braque, and Leger did not dare to do. In her Kyiv studio, she taught abstract art even to children, offering them to illustrate a fairy tale not with a plot but with the help of rhythms. She also renewed theatrical art.

For the first time in the world scenography, she dared to play the whole cube of the stage, not just its tablet floor.

One of her most famous paintings is Fundukleivska Street (now it is Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street).

Kazymyr Malevych - Ukrainian avant-garde artist, a prominent figure of the Ukrainian avant-garde, founder of Suprematism, one of the founders of cubofuturism.

It's all about Malevich, an artist who started as a self-taught painter and became a world-famous artist, art theorist, philosopher, and poet.

Malevych, like many of his fellow futurists, believed that he had every right to create his own biography, which he did by "correcting" the facts. Therefore, the date of his birth or the dates of his paintings differ in different references. And his figure is overgrown with legends and mystifications.

Malevych is often compared to Leonardo da Vinci. At one time, da Vinci moved from one era in the art to another, just as Malevich, to some extent, opened the era of modern art. We can say that all modern art, in one way or another, looks at Malevich and rejects or denies confidence in his theses, works, or even his position.