While in 20th-century literature there are a few authors who reacted to the tragic events of 1932-33 in Ukraine, the reaction from the visual arts milieu was virtually non-existant. In fact, Kazimir Malevich was the only one to respond to the Holodomor. At least this is asserted by Dmytro Horbachov, one of the most authoritative Ukrainian art experts. He used this fact as an argument that Malevich is a Ukrainian artist [the artist was born near Kyiv to ethnic Polish parents. – Ed.].
A whole range of paintings dedicated to the victims of collectivization and the Great Famine, united afterwards into the second cycle of the artist’s works, “The Village Cycle,” is one of the terrifying documents that evidence the events of the 1920s-1930s in Ukraine.
