Maria Prymachenko (1908–1997) is one of the most renowned artists in Ukraine. She was a Ukrainian village folk artist engaged in embroidery, drawing as well as painting оn ceramics, a self-taught artist whose popular work of the naive or primitivism genre portrayed Ukrainian folk art based on animal and plant life. Many of her masterpieces are included in a collection of folk art at the National Museum in Kyiv. Pablo Picasso once said after visiting a Prymachenko exhibition in Paris, “I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.” The year 2009 was declared the Year of Maria Prymachenko by the UNESCO Invading Russian forces destroyed a museum in Ivankiv (a city northwest of the capital Kyiv), that was home to dozens of works by the Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko on Sunday 28 February 2022. The Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, located northwest of the capital city Kyiv was burnt to the ground, along with 25 works by Prymachenko PLEASE SEE ALSO: https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819971 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819972 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819973 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819975 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/igor-shipilin-ukraine-19613 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/irina-karkabi-ukraine-19602

2. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

3. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
From the evening fairy tale
'For the good children' 1990

4. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

5. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Kotsubaki have goros,
NEMA nide truth I do

6. Maria Prymachenko was born in 1909 and lived her whole life,
until 1997, in Ukraine. She is known as an icon of Naïve Art in
Ukraine. Her mystical beasts have become emblematic of the
whole Ukrainian folk tradition, which surrounded Maria
Prymachenko in her childhood: her mother embroidered, father
was a talented carpenter, grandmother painted Easter eggs. To
honor the artist the year 2009 was recognized Primachenko
year by UNESCO. A small planet 14624 was given the name
"Primachenko". Likhachev boulevard, the street in the center of
Kyiv, was renamed to Primachenko boulevard

7. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
To honor the artist one street in
the center of Kyiv – Likhachev
boulevard was renamed to
Prymachenko boulevard

8. Sculptures based on the works of the Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko

9. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

10. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

11. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

12. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

13. Today Pryimachenko’s paintings are worth tens of thousands of
dollars at auctions, but when she was still alive and working in her
native village of Bolotnia (now Ivankov raion in Kyiv oblast) her
countrymen did not realize that she was a rather unique master
working next to them

14. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

15. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

16. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Spring revels of hares and birds, 1968

17. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

18. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

19. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

20. In the 1930s, her works caught the eye of the then-famous artist
Tatyana Fleur, who took some of her works to an exhibition and
insisted that the girl go to Kyiv to study. Maria was invited to the
experimental workshops at the Kiev State Museum on the territory
of the Lavra (now this museum houses most of her works, c. 650).
The artist lived in Kyiv from 1935 to 1940, during which time her
works were exhibited throughout the Soviet Union, exhibited in
Moscow and even in Paris.
Maria Prymachenko
Yahotyn
Based on the works of the Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko

22. Children's playgrounds
based on the works of the
Ukrainian artist Maria
Primachenko (1908–1997)

23. Children's
playgrounds
based on the works
of the Ukrainian
artist Maria
Primachenko
(1908–1997)

24. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

25. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)

26. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)

27. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)

28. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)

29. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)
Crocodile
marine

30. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)

31. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)

32. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)

33. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) My dear has fallen in love with brigadier

34. Author of the project presented in the Taras Shevchenko
Museum – Oleksii Shevchuk as if transfers nine fantastic
and cosmic images of animals from Pryimachenko’s
paintings into sculpture (in modern terms, into 3D
format). Her paintings usually depicted fabulous
mythological beasts, which took their roots in folk
legends as well as fairy-tales, fostered bу real life and
Ukrainian culture

37. Art works of
Maria
Pryimachenko
found their
thematic and
stylistic
continuation in
the sculptures
made of hay by
Oleksii
Shevchuk

38. Oleksii
Shevchuk
Hay sculptures
inspired by art
of Maria
Pryimachenko

39. Oleksii Shevchuk
Hay sculptures
inspired by art of
Maria
Pryimachenko

40. Oleksii
Shevchuk
Hay sculptures
inspired by art
of Maria
Pryimachenko

42. Oleksii Shevchuk - Hay sculptures inspired by art of Maria Pryimachenko
Invading Russian forces destroyed a museum in Ivankiv (a city northwest of the capital Kyiv), that was home
to dozens of works by the Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko on Sunday 28 February 2022. The
Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, located northwest of the capital city Kyiv was burnt to the
ground, along with 25 works by Prymachenko, according to the Kyiv Independent

44. The installation is full of symbolism
and allegory: sculptures are made
of hay – simple, naive, natural
material that resembles a
multidimensional structure of the
universe, consisting of fine threads
that connect space.
The central figure is a woman
master (Pryimachenko herself):
philosopher – creator – shepherd –
Trypillian woman, symbol of
fertility and beauty, dressed in
plakhta, on which ornamental
formulas of all shapes are combined

45. Sound Cheremshina - voice of Kvitka Tsisyk & Nina Matvienko & Oksana Mukha
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