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Ukraine
Painting, Acrylic on Cardboard
Size: 33.5 W x 90.6 H x 1.2 D in
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This is a hybrid character inspired by the image of Taras Shevchenko, an artist and poet. Unfortunately, in the mass consciousness, his image has undergone distortions and deformations, entrenched in an unattractive and sacred form, which confirms even a common iconographic stereotype - he is often known for photos or painted portraits of old grandfather in a fur hat and coat. In fact, the romantic poet, genius artist died young, reaching only 47 years old. And few people know that his mother's maiden name - Boyko - connects him with the name of an ethnographic group of Ukrainian mountaineers, whose genealogy is derived from the Eastern Celts, who once inhabited all of Europe from the Atlantic to the Carpathians. You don't even have to resort to the genre of alternative history to recognize many other figures in it, outwardly different, but so noticeable in the pages of history or chronicles of recent events ...
Painting:Acrylic on Cardboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:33.5 W x 90.6 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Ukraine.
Customs:Shipments from Ukraine may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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Ukraine
Mykola Yakovyna (Микола Яковина) is a Ukrainian artist, architect, statesman, and public figure. He works in painting, graphics, stained glass art and architecture. He has been exhibiting his works since 1980. Artworks are stored in the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya Folk Art (Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region), the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine (Kyiv), and other museums and private collections in Ukraine and Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Poland, USA. Mykola Yakovyna was the initiator and organizer of the first international biennial of contemporary art "Impreza" in the former Soviet Union (Ivano-Frankivsk, 1989-1991), Being the first democratically elected chairman of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council (1990), he then was for more than a year Acting Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1994-1995), was elected a member of the Parliament of Ukraine (2006). He was elected the President of the Ukrainian National Committee of International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) three times in a row (2007-2016). Among others activities, Mykola Yakovyna was the first in the former Soviet Union to publish the prose of Bruno Schulz in his own translation from Polish into Ukrainian (1988).
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