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"Nuclear war - Damn her! (...)," Maria Prymachenko, 1989.
From Ukraine, Prymachenko (1909-97) was a self-taught folk artist who also worked in embroidery. Her work drew on Ukrainian and Polesian folk traditions, and his particular work is her own reaction to the Chernobyl disaster. Prymachenko was directly affected, her village being threatened by the radiation. While Soviet art tended to glorify atomic power as a triumph of man's ingenuity triumphing over nature, she depicted atomic power as an evil monster ready to pounce.
She is now regarded as one of the great Ukrainian artists, with her work being featured on stamps and coins in Ukraine. Sadly, some of her work was lost when the Russians set fire to the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, but locals are said to have run into the burning building to rescue what works they could.
Damn war, indeed!
From a private collection.
#Art #WomenArtists #UkrainianArt #FolkArt #NaiveArt #AntiNuclearArt #Chernobyl
From Ukraine, Prymachenko (1909-97) was a self-taught folk artist who also worked in embroidery. Her work drew on Ukrainian and Polesian folk traditions, and his particular work is her own reaction to the Chernobyl disaster. Prymachenko was directly affected, her village being threatened by the radiation. While Soviet art tended to glorify atomic power as a triumph of man's ingenuity triumphing over nature, she depicted atomic power as an evil monster ready to pounce.
She is now regarded as one of the great Ukrainian artists, with her work being featured on stamps and coins in Ukraine. Sadly, some of her work was lost when the Russians set fire to the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, but locals are said to have run into the burning building to rescue what works they could.
Damn war, indeed!
From a private collection.
#Art #WomenArtists #UkrainianArt #FolkArt #NaiveArt #AntiNuclearArt #Chernobyl