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21🥀 she/her Here discussing art & culture (mostly)

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The magic realism in paintings of Ivan Marchuk🪻

🔗 Tenderness (1984)

🔗 Night in the Steppe (1983)

🔗 Cornflowers (Memories of the Childhood)

🔗 Silence all around (2018)

🔗And Summer Plays with the Sun (2004)

🔗Incomprehensibility (1991)

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I genuinely can't describe the joy I get while admiring the pictures of Maria Prymachenko. Because her artworks are so beautiful, colorful, simple and complex at the same time.

I guess I also feel that way because my great grandma used to have some of her paintings at home and I always liked to look a them. So they just bring those memories back.

Also, I always liked the pictures with the beasts, for their unique looks. And generally speaking, for me she is one of the best representatives of naïve art✨

Here are my top fave pictures:

📍A Dove Has Spread Her Wings and Asks for Peace

📍Young Lion

📍Blue Bull

📍Tiger is Laughing

📍Ukrainian Bull, Three Years Old, Went Walking Through the Woods and Garners Strength

📍Beast On The Walk

📍May That Nuclear War Be Cursed!

📍Ukrainian Dancers

📍A Horse In Sadness

📍Seagull In It's Nest

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🍒Varenyky with cherries and smetana are just sooo😮‍💨🥹🥰

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She would paint flowers but never picked them.

She didn't attend art school or even any school but was self-taught.

She survived Holodomor and refused to paint the portrait of stalin.

🎨All these facts are just a small part of the lifestory of Kateryna Bilokur - personally one of my favorite Ukrainian folk artists. Her passion and talent are undoubtedly impressive.

Her parents though didn't understand her painting hobby. One of her life stories:

"I stole a piece of white canvas from my mother and took charcoal. I would draw something on one side of the canvas and then flip it on the other side, same here. And then I would wash that canvas and draw again. At once, I didn't paint a landscape but the birds and felt so happy that I managed to create something like that! I would look at that painting and laugh as I was mad. And just like that, my father and mother caught me. They torn apart my painting and threw it into the fire, saying, "What are you mad doing? God forbid, what if others saw you doing what you do? Then no one will ask to marry you"

Despite the parents' disapproval, her paintings became so popular that Picasso, after seeing one of her paintings in Paris display, said: "If we had an artist of such level of skill, we would make the whole world talk about her".

🪄I gathered here some of her most significant pictures but highly recommend getting to know more about her works.