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‘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...

‘Chumaks path in Mariupol’ by Arkhip Kuindzi

https://www.wikiart.org/en/arkhip-kuindzhi/moonlight-night-on-the-dnieper-1880

‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge

‘Easter morning prayer” by Ukrainian painter Mykola Pymonenko

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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...

Ukrainian Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught painter-virtuoso praised by Pablo Picasso

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In Dec. 2020, Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of a Ukrainian painter with the following words: "Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught virtuoso earned international renown for...

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...

Ilya Repin was born on August 5, 1844 in Ukraine. Story behind his most...

On 26 July 1878, he did his first pencil drawing of the merry Zaporozhians drafting their defiant letter to the sultan. Although Repin was...