Ukrainian Chumaks, Ox-Wagon Drivers, in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings

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Future world-renowned outstanding marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) (1817-1900) was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. But Aivazovsky's...

‘Ukrainian landscape with chumaks in the moonlight’ by I. Aivazovsky

" Chumak (Ukrainian: чумак) is a historic and traditional wagon-based trading occupation on the territory of modern Ukraine in late Medieval and early Modern periods of history. It consisted in the delivery...

Mykola Pymonenko whose works inspired Kazimir Malevich. His Hopak painting was bought by the...

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Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of...

‘Easter morning prayer” by Ukrainian painter Mykola Pymonenko

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‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

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De-Russification of Ukrainian art, – DW

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New York museum has renamed an Edgar Degas painting to recognize its Ukrainian, not Russian, theme, and acknowledged formerly Russia-designated artists as Ukrainian. Barley...

Kazimir Malevich showed the tragedy of Holodomor, himself fell victim to Stalinism

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“Malevich was the only artist who showed the tragic situation of the Ukrainian peasants during forced collectivization in the USSR” – wrote Jean-Claude Markade, French...