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, according to the Kyiv Independent. PLEASE SEE ALSO: https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819971 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819973 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819974 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/maria-prymachenko-ukraine-190819975 Contemporary Ukrainian art https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/igor-shipilin-ukraine-19613 https://www.slideshare.net/sandafoisoreanu/irina-karkabi-ukraine-19602

2. Tubic digital agency
An illustration for
Maria Prymachenko
Artists’ universe

3. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) Ukrainian flowers for small children
Don't feast your eyes on other people's bread let the girl grow up and be happy, 1990

4. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Seagulls in the boat,
1965

5. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

6. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

7. Maria Prymachenko (1908–1997) is one of the most renowned artists in Ukraine. She was a village folk artist
engaged in embroidery, drawing as well as painting оn ceramics. Many of her masterpieces are included in a
collection of folk art at the Ukrainian National Museum in Kyiv. In 1937, the artist's works were exhibited in
Paris, where she gained notoriety. Pablo Picasso once said after visiting 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, that was home to dozens of works by the folk artist, on
Sunday 28 February 2022. The Museum was burnt to the ground, along with 25 works by Prymachenko.

8. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) from series 'Bolotnia's animals'

9. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) Seagull in it's nest Flowers

10. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Peacock and crocodile

11. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

12. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

13. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

14. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

15. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) Bears at apiary, 1965,
National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv, Ukraine

16. Beast (1936)
Dancer (Tecurity)
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Fairy bird – peacock

17. Animals visiting the lion (1963)
A cossack grave (1962)
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Dear Taras Hryhorovych, whatever you see here is yours

18. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) A bird Dear friends, I give you the
sun and my sunny art

19. Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997) Blue-eyed flowers
Do I love orchards, do I love forests

20. Crane makes friends with a fox
Everyday life
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Dear Soviet People, congratulations on the anniversary of
Great October

21. Forest bird with it's child
Green elephant
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Poppies

22. Dumplings on the shelf
Let us go to the betrothal party
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Father Frost carries the New-Year tree

23. From
series
'Bolotnia's
animals‘
Halia
and
cossack
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Little shepherds 1959
National Museum of Ukraina

24. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Maiden and cossack
enjoying a ride on
horseback

25. Flowers in a pot, 1992 I give this bouquet of stars where children are Stars
Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1908–1997)

26. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Lamd has harnesed a
wolf

27. Maria Prymachenko - Lovely spring, what did you bring Lilac

28. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Flax blooms and a
cossack goes to a girl

29. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Flax blooms, a bride
goes to her groom

30. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
Godfather brings a
calf to godmother

31. Maria
Prymachenko
(Ukrainian,
1908–1997)
Magpie je ponosna

32. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Pigeon and dove

33. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–1997)
Pigeons

34. Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908–
1997)
By beloved plows the
field

35. Sound: Ukraine Vocal girls' ensemble "YAGIDKY" - Over the meadows and over the fields; Oh, long, long ago my mother was
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