Yaroslav Kravchenko

The artist’s preserved heritage is composed of over 170 easel works, mostly done in egg tempera technique, as well as of about 140 drawings, watercolors, pastels, sketch albums, most of them created in the postwar Lviv. The last 25 years have been the most prolific period of...

Zofia (Sofia) Baudouin de Courtenay was born on January 2, 1887, in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) to the family of Jan (Ivan) Baudouin de Courtenay, a well-known Slavicist, a professor at Krakow and Dorpat universities. In 1901 the “founder of the phoneme studies in linguistics” and...

On a Sunday morning, buses with Polish tourists keep pulling up, one by one, at the entrance to Lviv’s Lychakivske Cemetery. Cheerful and smiling, with candles and flowers in hand, they walk, in groups or singly, to the Polish Eaglets memorial to honor the memory of those who fought for...

Early in the morning of January 12, 1972 a group of men with KGB IDs stormed into Lviv-based artist Stefania Shabatura’s small apartment to search her as a witness in Viacheslav Chornovil’s case. The artist, accused of spreading the underground self-published literature (samizdat) and...

“True art is not the ‘isms’ of Paris, Rome, or Berlin, such as cubism, futurism, or expressionism. It is the need of the soul to express itself and show its inner world which materializes by means of paints or pencil within the framework of three main problems of painting: line,...

Tymofii (Tymko), younger brother to Mykhailo Boichuk, lived a short but bright artistic life. Tymofii’s school and work years coincided with the fleeting years of the Ukrainian Academy of art within the Ukrainian statehood. He died in the year when the red-starred social experimenters turned...

In June and July this year the National Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kaniv hosted the exhibition entitled “Around Taras” by Lviv muralist Valerii Shalenko. An act of tribute and respect to the poet and artist, illustrated with little-known, out-of-the-schoolbook events in his biography,...

As part of the international festival LvivKlezFest in Lviv, Oksana Bondaruk’s culture and art center “Art-e-fakt galereYA” has hosted a solo photo exhibit of Illia Lievin, a professional artist who works in Iryna Shcherbatenko’s genre of microrealism and painting in the...

The photo of a Paris-based Ukrainian group, Renovation Byzantine, has now been reproduced in a number of art history publications. But I can remember that, still in my early childhood, this enlarged and carefully mounted picture always hung over the desk in my father’s study room next to a...

Nature generously endowed Oleksandr Murashko with talent. Destiny gave him a short period of creative work, only 19 years. The artist’s oeuvre is versatile, uniting the elements of Realism, Expressionism, and Art Nouveau. He was fond of the nature of light reflexus, tried to master the most...