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She made her first drawings in her early teens with charcoal on pieces of canvas and the whitewashed stove. When her parents caught her doing such a foolish thing, they strictly forbade her to paint or even draw, so she had to enjoy her hobby secretly.
Unlike her parents, everyone else in the village appreciated her gift. The local landlord and owner of a watermill, who was an enthusiastic fan of theater, organized something like a drama studio in the village. The plays he staged had a big local success. One day, he asked Kateryna, who had just turned 16, to help him with the set design. The girl gladly took on it: she designed and painted the sets for the play and even played a part in it. But her mother grumbled, “Why did God punish me with such a daughter? All my neighbors have their daughters married at this age and have sons-in-law and grandchildren, and my daughter only keeps painting the hell knows what!”
The voice of the famous opera singer Oksana Petrusenko impressed her so deeply that she spent the whole night writing a letter to her. Enclosing her picture of a viburnum on a piece of canvas, she wrote the address: “Oksana Petrusenko, Academic Theater, Kyiv.” The address was incomplete, of course, but the letter did reach the well-known addressee.
Petrusenko showed the picture to her friend Pavlo Tychyna, the famous poet, and to the Center of Folk Arts. Officials at the Culture Ministry got interested and all authoritative art critics were amazed. It was immediately decided to display Bilokur’s paintings at a solo exhibition in Poltava.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/40905Published at
2024-11-25 19:55:45Event JSON
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