SPRING. 1967. Paper, gouache. 60õ83.
Cover:Mariya PRYIMACHENKO (PRYMACHENKO) . Ukrainian dancers. 1962. Fragment. Canvas,oil. Photo by Sergiy Vovk. |
Cover (Page 2):Mariya PRYIMACHENKO (PRYMACHENKO). Vanja leading horses to water. 1982. Fragment. Paper, gouache. Photo by Sergiy Vovk. |
Cover (Page 4): Mariya PRYIMACHENKO (PRYMACHENKO). Wild chaplun. 1977. Fragment. Paper, gouache. Photo by Sergiy Vovk. |
Mariya Oksentiivna’s Revelations and Mysteries
Next year we’ll celebrate a centenary of Mariya Prymachenko’s (Pryimachenko 1909 – 1997) birthday, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Laureate of the National Ukrainian Taras Shevchenko award. The master occupies one of the most honorable places among the outstanding cultural figures of the XX-th century. More than 600 master’s works have been bought by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art Museum. Mariya was born in the village Bolotni, Ivankiv region, Kyiv oblast. In 1935 she was invited to Kyiv to the Kyiv Folk Art Museum workshop. In 1937 some of her drawings were exhibited at the international exhibition in Paris. The rest of her life she spent in her native village… As a real creator Mariya Prymachenko implemented in her works the legends of Polissia area, centuries-old folk fantasy that inhabited the world around with myth creatures. Olena Shestakova tells about a difficult fate of the talented master.