Stories By Nataliia Pecherska
20th century
House with Chimaeras: Facts and Legends About an Unusual Art Nouveau Building in Kyiv
December 7, 2020House with Chimaeras (or Horodecki House) is one of the most extraordinary buildings in Ukraine in the Modernist era. Its construction is asymmetrical and concrete animals, birds, and fishes live there something which, despite its gloom,...
20th century
Expressionism: Artists, Paintings, and Everything You Need to Know About the Art Movement
November 14, 2020Expressionism developed the ideas of Post-Impressionism and became another prominent trend in the history of art. Some of its most remarkable representatives were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vasyl Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, August Macke, Emil Nolde,...
20th century
Post-Impressionism: Artists, Paintings, and Everything You Need to Know
September 26, 2020The term “Post-Impressionism” combines the oeuvre of many artists. In this article, we will tell you about four prominent masters who are most associated with the art movement – Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat,...
21st century
Anatoliy Kryvolap’s Evolution of Color: Emotional Paintings of the Ukrainian Artist
September 2, 2020Anatoliy Kryvolap is a contemporary Ukrainian artist whose paintings are sold at the world’s most prestigious auctions for thousands of dollars. He works on the verge of figurative painting and abstraction. That is to say, the...
19th Century
Artists and Paintings. Everything You Need to Know About Impressionism
July 27, 2020Impressionism has become one of the most significant movements of modern art. The names of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, or Edgar Degas are well-known, perhaps, even by those who are not very interested in art. There...
20th century
Viktor Zaretsky: The Oeuvre of the Ukrainian Gustav Klimt
May 28, 2020Viktor Zaretsky is often called the Ukrainian Gustav Klimt. In fact, the influence of Klimt on the artworks of this Ukrainian artist is quite obvious. However, this does not mean that he just copied the works...
20th century
Alla Horska. Die Hard
May 2, 2020Ukrainian artist Alla Horska created dozens of amazing mosaics and paintings while actively fighting with the crimes of the Soviet authorities against the intelligentsia. For this reason, she has often been called the soul of the...
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Zoya Lerman, a Ukrainian Non-Conformist Artist
March 28, 2020Artist Zoya Lerman is an unusual representative of Ukrainian non-conformism in painting. Despite the dominance of social realism, she was able to assert her artistic voice and the right to create her unique world of sensuality...
20th century
Art on the Verge of Eroticism and Pathology by Egon Schiele
February 28, 2020The provocative artworks of the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele are not just about exploring the sexuality of women’s and men’s bodies. The artist also expresses inner experiences through the pathological body. These two aspects of the...
