issue # 33-34 (1-2).2006
Page. 49





Nataliya Kaplun

PYSANKAS OF LUHANSHCHYNA


Nataliya Kaplun writes that in the late XIX century there was information about existence of pysankas painting in this region, though this handicraft didn’t play the role of art trade. However, in the course of time this type of folk art gradually was forgotten here, though it remained in other Ukrainian regions. At the end of XX century the wonder happened in Luhanshchyna — pysanka returned. Its revival was due to Tetiana Konoval from the miners’ city Sverdlovsk. She made her first samples in 1996 at the instance of her husband who grew up in Uzhgorod (the city in Western Ukraine) and couldn’t imagine Easter without pysanka. Tetiana’s formation as a master started. She began to investigate information, ornaments, technique. At the same time she started to teach this art child from nursery school. Tetiana Konoval is a participant of a number of oblast exhibitions, of the All-Ukrainian Union Exhibition Folk Art for the 10th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence. At these exhibitions she met famous Ukrainian masters of pysankas painting, saw their works, visited museums in Kyiv and Kolomyya. All these inspirited her to new creative work — the same year the master exhibited her pysankas to Easter holidays. At her native place the pysankas painting training studio for adults has been opened.



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