Olha SYCHOVA. Shepherd.
Clay, artistic molding, gouache paintings.
MODERN CERAMIC TOY
Galyna Girnyk, employee of the Khmelnitsk Art Museum, writes about the 20-year-old tradition in Nikitiuk-Kurkchi family. The sources of this manual wonder are in Liudmyla Ivanivna, the heart of the family, who learned the experience of old folk masters. That's why the shape, plastic solution of her toy meet the demands of folk art traditions. In the creative family there are three generations - the mother, father Fedir Ivanovych, the daughter and the grandchildren, who are so close and at the same time so different in their creative activity. Olga leads the mother's art line, and Dariya is closer to the father's experimental line. The author of the article tried by analyzing the individuality of every master to systemize the families' works, to identify their common platform and contribution of every member in the development of the traditional art and the ways of its modernization.
