Taras Holovko

He graduated from Kyiv Art Institute with the professional artist’s certificate in 1960. Also, it was in the city on the Dnipro that he met his life partner Tamara Nekhoda, and their happy marriage has entered its 54th year. The capital of Ukraine is the place where the artist has gained...

After the award ceremony, Mykhailo Guida told the media that he had already sent one of his mentees for rehabilitation to Germany, where he had an artificial limb put on.As is known, the artist has won the Shevchenko Prize in the “Fine Arts” nomination. In the opinion of Ukrainian art...

It is no accident that Anzhelina SHVACHKA, a National Opera soloist, has won the National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine this year. Her vocal roles have helped her achieve the status of one of the most brilliant Ukrainian opera singers whose talent is appreciated not only in this country. It was...

The graphic works created by this talented and original artist are present in many books published by Kharkiv and Kyiv publishing houses over the past decade. He was one of the first Ukrainian illustrators who started to use the powerful arsenal of up-to-date computers in book illustration. The...

May 8 through 14 First Hollywood Festival of the Best Ukrainian films, organized by the National Union of Filmmakers of Ukraine, will be held in the capital of American cinematography. The films will be screened at the movie theater Laemmle Music Hall, located in a prestigious district of Los...

Over the past decade Vasyl Korchynsky, a well-known painter and graphic artist from the capital, laureate of two Heorhii Yakutovych Awards, has earned the fame of an unsurpassed papercutting expert. He learned this a bit exotic form of art, which is more characteristic of rural life, and gave it a...

Nowadays, in the age of information technology, it is extremely hard to do without using this powerful information resource. Yurii Perohanych, director general at the Association of IT Companies of Ukraine and founder of the NGO Wikimedia Ukraine, belongs to a few thousand enthusiasts who regularly...

The National League of Ukrainian Artists has nominated a cycle of paintings by Taras Danylych, which the artist symbolically titled “Silver Land,” for the Shevchenko Prize 2015.Taras Danylych was born in the village of Turia Poliana, Perechyn raion, Zakarpattia oblast. After leaving a...

The first publication on the oeuvre of graphic artist Mykola Kompanets came out almost three decades ago. Its author, poet Mykola Synhaivsky, wrote among other things: “Colors in his drawings are active and consonant with the word. Trees, clouds, the moon, and stars seem to be in motion and...

There are people who cannot be broken by blows of destiny, but, vice versa, they become even stronger. This absolutely refers to the People’s Artist of Ukraine, a Shevchenko Prize winner Serhii Yakutovych, who is famous not only in Ukraine, but also far beyond it. Loss of dear people and...